RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Favorite Single Issues You Actually Own

A variation on a running theme..what are your favorite books that you actually own that aren't reprinted, in TPB form, etc? However you want to classify is your business (runs, singles, OGN, etc)..I just wanna know what you have that you love...Original Graphic Novels would count..just not reprint trades....

TALES OF SUSPENSE from #39-up, with IRON MAN (and later, also with CAPTAIN AMERICA)

STRANGE TALES #135-up, with NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. and DR. STRANGE

NEXUS by Mike Baron & Steve Rude (every issue!!!)

The various books starring COLEY COCHRAN by John Blackburn (every one, including the 3 Eros DIDN'T publish at the beginning!)

NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. #1-15 (w/ Steranko, Springer, Smith & Trimpe)

X-MEN #49-up (w/ Steranko, Roth, Smith, Adams, etc.)

CAPTAIN VICTORY AND THE GALACTIC RANGERS by Kirby (complete run)

Same list, really. I own all my faves.

1.Animal Man #5-"Coyote Gospel"
2.Astro City #1/2-"Nearness of You"
3.Animal Man #26-"Deus Ex Machina"

Death: the high cost of living.

Oh God, where to begin...these are runs which to my knowledge have never been reprinted anywhere:

Thriller 1-8 by Robert Fleming and Trevor Von Eeden
Timespirits by Steven Grant and Tom Yeates
Starstruck by Elaine Lee and Kaluta the Uncanny
Hellstorm 11-21 by Warren Ellis and Leo Manco
War of the Worlds by Don McGregor and Craig Russell
Challengers of the Unknown 1-6 by Loeb & Sale
Gemini Blood 1-9 by Chris Hinz and Tommy Lee
Major Bummer by John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke/Tom Nguyen
Chase by D.C. Johnson and J.H. Williams/Mick Gray
And one single issue: Puppy Action! a hilarious one-shot that came out sometime in the mid to late 80s. It was like Office Space with cute puppies instead of people. It was nasty and cynical and funny as hell. I forget who did it, but the art looked an awful lot like whoever did the Sniz 'n Fondue cartoons for Nickelodeon.


And profh, all those SHIELD/Nick Fury issues have been reprinted, in full color, by Marvel a couple of years ago...

I guess I should play too...

1. Detective Comics 359, 363, 371.1st Batgirl.stories..joy.
2. Action Comics 293.Origin of Comet and the earliest Supergirl appearance I own....A great issue from my POV..
3. Doom Patrol 19-63..Morrison
4. Elementals 1-29 & Justice Machine annual (the comic series that got me back into comics after a few years away)
5. Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man (treasury)
6. Superman vs Muhammed Ali (treasury)
7. Tarzan ..Marvel..1-29..my favorite Buscema work
8. Justice League:The Nail 1-3..my favorite JLA and Davis work.
9. Superman vs Shazam (treasury)
10. Batman and the Outsiders 22-36, and Detective comics 569-575...my first intro to Alan Davis and my favorite batman stories..
11.Lois Lane 29-119...various issues, any Schaffenberger issue..Schaffenberger's best art period and my favorite guilty pleasure.
12. Justice league 1-41 and Justice League Europe 1-30..bwah hah hah
13. New Teen Titans..all the Wolfman /Perez issues.
14. Limited Collectro's Edition c-36..The Bible..
(treasury)..Simply the most gorgeous art I've seen in a comic..Beautiful Redondo work..
15. Rima Jungle Girl 1-7..Amazing Nestor Redondo art.


I know 15 is a lot, but I have a lot of stuff...

Favorite single issues that I own...(in no order)

New X-Men 114; Grant kicks off his view of the X-Men with a bang. Stunning. I was hooked.

Legion of Super-Heroes (v4) 4, 5; the death of Mon-El and the birth of the stunning Mordruverse. Ferro Lad's a hero in any universe.

Giant Size X-Men 1; the start of the Modern Age of Comics.

Authority (v1) 14; love Quitely's visual take on the Avengers.

JLA 1; Morrison and the JLA--a great moment for classic Super Hero Americana.

Iron Man 128; My name is Tony Stark, and I am an alcoholic.

Doom Patrol (v2) 19; Crawling from the Wreckage indeed.

Fantastic Four Heroes Reborn (1996) 1; love Jim Lee's visual take on the World's Greatest Comic Magazine.

I think that's about it, for now.

--Jim

"And one single issue: Puppy Action! a hilarious one-shot that came out sometime in the mid to late 80s. It was like Office Space with cute puppies instead of people. It was nasty and cynical and funny as hell. I forget who did it, but the art looked an awful lot like whoever did the Sniz 'n Fondue cartoons for Nickelodeon."

MY GOD! I have that comic-- it was HILARIOUS!!!!! During a period where my tastes were changing and I was more inclined to check out "cartoony" and "funny" than any more of this "dark cynical violent" crap, that a blast of left-field "What the hell is THIS?"

But TRUFAN ADVENTURE THEATRE and its sequel BOFFO LAUGHS tends to loom higher in my memory. "Sister No-Mercy, The Ninja Nun! For her, killing is just another habit!")


"And profh, all those SHIELD/Nick Fury issues have been reprinted, in full color, by Marvel a couple of years ago..."

I have the 2 Steranko TPBs. These were DECADES overdue!!! They did a very interesting job on the color, but some of the special effects got all screwed over. Worse, the linework-- so typical of ALL Marvel reprints-- was blurred.

But keep in mind-- the JACK KIRBY run has NOT been collected yet-- nor have any of the Frank Springer, Barry Smith or Herb Trimpe issues EVER been reprinted!

It's one of my all-time fave series, but I always WISH they'd have gotten a steady inker / finisher for Jack (he did just layouts on most of the episodes). Can you IMAGINE if Wally Wood had worked with Jack on S.H.I.E.L.D. The mind boggles... After Steranko left, NOBODY seemed to really have a clue what they were doing. the ONE issue by Steve Parkhouse (who much later wrote DOCTOR WHO comics) and Barry Smith (before he got good!) was the single real highlight of the end-period. Unfortunately, it was the beginning of a multi-issue story, and neither Steve or Barry returned for subsequent issues! I point this up because MANY years later, Bob "Why say it in 5 words when you can use 50?" Harris ripped off the plot for his overly-long and completely WRONG-HEADED maxi-series NICK FURY VS. SHIELD. (Oh, God, was that BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.)

Blue Devil #1. Got me back inot collecting after quitting for a while. BD coulda been a contenduh.

Wow, Prof, you've seen Puppy Action! I'm glad someone else remembers that book...

And you're correct, the pre-and post-Steranko issues of SHIELD haven't been reprinted yet. I always kinda liked the Frank Springer-illoed issues, esp. the Five Million Megaton Explosion issue and the one that had the Xmas tree cover, with Nick, the Hate Monger and others reflected in the ornaments.

The last non-60s SHIELD I ever bought was the Starlin/Chaykin Marvel Spotlight (or one of those showcase books). That, and the first issue of Ennis' heinous Fury for MAX. The revival attempts since the 60s (except the Starlin/Chaykin thing) have been pretty wretched, IMO.

Favorite books I own:

Almost every O'Neil Adams Batman
The entire run of Bryne/Claremont X-men
Giant Size X-men
Daredevil (1st series) 1
X-men (first series) 1
The Amazing Spider-man (1st series) 1

My all-time favorite issues (collected, stand-alone, story arcs)

The Green Hornet, no. 1, vol. 1. (1989)

The Green Hornet, nos. 1-12, vol. 1, collected in deluxe hardcover format. (1990).

BATMAN 581-582, featuring the story of Jeremy Samuels, and the first appearance of my favorite new Bat-villain, Zeiss. Lots of Matrix references in this 2-issue story arc.

I also love "BATMAN: JAZZ", issues 1-3, a LOTDK special.

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All Star Comics # 69.

Black Hole 1-10 (or whatever the most recent issue was).
Hitman #39 (I think that's the one with Superman).
Skin, a graphic novel by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy (it might be a trade, I dunno).
Shade The Changing Man 1-70
The Invisibles (all three volumes)
Smiths Adventures in the Supermundane by Farel Dalrymple (of Pop Gun War fame)

giman: I thought the point was to list favorite single issues. Sounds like you've listed a good portion of your whole collection.

Can you pare down some of that to specific issues?

And I'm curious: you separate the Byrne/Claremont X-Men. YOu don't have or don't like the Claremont/Cockrum X-Men?

Jim

Swamp Thing 19-50
Crisis 1-12

Too many to list. I could spend hours typing all of them in.

Ooh! Ooh! I got another one!

There was an issue of Secret Origins that came out sometime in the mid to late 80s which had an Ambush Bug story by Giffen and Robert L. Fleming and a Trigger Twins story with art by Trevor Von Eeden, the first (and last to date) time since Thriller 7 that both men worked on the same comic. I've kept it for sentimental reasons.

I've also got a few one-shot appearances in the 70s Marvel Premiere-type books, one that comes to mind is Howard Chaykin's Monark Starstalker, which has only seen print once. Also, there are the Bill Everett-illustrated issues of Sub-Mariner, especially #57 which re-introduced his uber-sexy character Venus.

Not sure if the following has been reprinted or not. Did you want single issues or story arcs?

1) Uncanny X-Men #159
2) UXM Annual #5 or #6 They fight Dracula
3) Thor #333 Thor vs Dracula
4) Tomb of Dracula #1 - 70
5) New Teen Titans #13 - #58
6) UXM #129 - #137
7) UXM #141 - #142
8) UXM #161 - #167
9) Sabre #1 - #15???
10) Dreadstar under the Epic banner
11) Astro City - Confessor arc
12) Rising Stars

List goes on----