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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2024 9:57:21 GMT -5
If we are talking per series I shamelessly plug for MTU 65 which introduced Brian Braddock aka Captain Britain to the US masses. It's one of my favourite bronze age covers as well.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 17, 2024 10:08:45 GMT -5
New Teen Titans #39 changed my life. Dick giving up the Robin costume without any certainty about his future, reflecting on his legacy and character arc up to this point, the camaraderie of his teammates and how subtly their personalities and inter-connected relationships are played, and (of course) Perez's art. It gives me chills every time.
This is the issue that showed me the true power of comic storytelling amid the vapid nonsense of mainstream '90s comics that were popular when I first discovered this story. It's the sole reason I still read, collect, and care today.
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 17, 2024 10:19:20 GMT -5
I've never read a superhero series to date where one issue had it all, either for the character, industry, or fan response. Several comics from a series? Undoubtedly, but not one issue, especially if one is talking about the Silver Age. In comic book conversations about this subject I've had in the past, I've found some believing a defining issue to be the same as a "greatest" single issue, but I see defining and greatest as two separate distinctions; the former can capture the heart of a concept, providing the why of a character unlike any story before it (e.g. The Amazing Spider-Man had a wealth of that from #39 - #140), while the latter can fall into a great creative peak not necessarily representing the essence of a character (similarly, for The Amazing Spider-Man, there's strong argument candidates for its greatest issue are also found from #39 - #140) . It doesn't need to be perfect to be the best. Failing any single issue being either great or defining, is there a single issue you like to re-read because it's ended up as a favourite? That's the thing: I mentioned The Amazing Spider-Man from #39 - #140, because that's the period where the character truly became "Spider-Man" and must-read comics, where Parker felt like a living, breathing person struggling with his lives; so, for a favorite I return to, its many in the period. Whether or not they're a "greatest".
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Post by shaxper on Oct 17, 2024 10:22:25 GMT -5
It doesn't need to be perfect to be the best. Failing any single issue being either great or defining, is there a single issue you like to re-read because it's ended up as a favourite? That's the thing: I mentioned The Amazing Spider-Man from #39 - #140, because that's the period where the character truly became "Spider-Man" and must-read comics, where Parker felt like a living, breathing person struggling with his lives; so, for a favorite I return to, its many in the period. Whether or not they're a "greatest".
ere was so much there Even still, you had favorite moments in that run, so which issue contained your favorite moment? |
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 17, 2024 10:29:07 GMT -5
I will say that the first comic I remember buying with my own money (well, pocket money, so not really originating with me) is this one:  It’ll be special to me for that reason, I was certainly intrigued as to why a guy with strange eyes was firing laser beams at a Routemaster. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2024 10:40:50 GMT -5
I will say that the first comic I remember buying with my own money (well, pocket money, so not really originating with me) is this one:
The first one I bought with my own pocket money in a store was Superman 75 (Death of Superman issue). I was in single digits and got sucked in by the hype on the Sci-Fi channel.
But even as a little girl, I wondered why Superman was such a boy scout when it came to fighting  Repeating the same old routine punches that weren't working, instead of some nasty super "street fighting"....like kick Doomsday in his balls you dumb dork, eye-gouge. Apparently Superdork never knew that if a street fight lasts more than a fraction of a minute, you've lost.
It's for reasons like that my parents signed me up for karate classes.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 17, 2024 10:40:52 GMT -5
These two from Gaiman come to mind.   I came here to say this, but it was already here. Sandman #8 was my first thought. I'm also very partial to #13 with the first appearance of Hob Gadling. |
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Post by kirby101 on Oct 17, 2024 11:15:00 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 17, 2024 11:22:57 GMT -5
Master of Kung Fu #39  Greatest fight in the history of comics.....  |
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Post by rich on Oct 17, 2024 11:37:43 GMT -5
Great comic. I don't own the original but read the contents reprinted as a teen. I wanted to draw like that! Gotta say, that background in the interior splash page, imagine how ugly that would look in a modern garishly coloured reprint. The texture makes that page! |
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Post by rich on Oct 17, 2024 11:40:53 GMT -5
Master of Kung Fu #39 Greatest fight in the history of comics..... A pity the colourist couldn't decide if the yellow thing in the sky was the moon at night or the sun in the day!! |
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Post by berkley on Oct 17, 2024 12:03:33 GMT -5
Master of Kung Fu #39 Greatest fight in the history of comics..... A pity the colourist couldn't decide if the yellow thing in the sky was the moon at night or the sun in the day!! I think a yellow moon was a sort of convention for a long time, wasn't it? I seem to remember colouring Hallowe'en pictures that way as a small kid. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 17, 2024 12:06:09 GMT -5
I have several that are very important to me personally but that I also think are objectively some of the best individual comics ever produced. For example:  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 17, 2024 12:25:18 GMT -5
I was thinking that this might be too modern of a comic, until I realized it's almost 20 years old. This wasn't my first comic I bought but the AoA was just getting started when I started buying comics. The best part of AoA was the heartwarming relationship between X-Men Sabertooth and Blink. And I often read this particular issue more often than I read the whole AoA story. Now there are certainly more "greater" or "iconic" single comics that influenced the industry and the fandom; but I am basing this selection off how many times I read it. To me that denotes how "great" a comic is. Kind of like how I am not a Rolling Stones fan but I will listen to Beast of Burden on a loop. Astonishing X-Men #2 (April 1995)   |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 17, 2024 12:57:07 GMT -5
This one probably skirts the rules as DC Special was essentially a series of one-shots. But it was a series. And this is, in my opinion, the single best Justice Society story ever. DC Special #29.
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Repeating the same old routine punches that weren't working, instead of some nasty super "street fighting"....like kick Doomsday in his balls you dumb dork, eye-gouge. Apparently Superdork never knew that if a street fight lasts more than a fraction of a minute, you've lost.
