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100 Greatest Marvel comics of all time?

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joe_collector

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What we have to understand is that Marvel decided on these books, and since they wanted to heavily promote their more recent and current books, the list is serious top-loaded with comics that are totally meaningless now and weren't much more back then.

 

We all know the important Marvel books were released in the Silver and Bronze Ages, but Marvel likes to fool itself that the following are more important than many Key SA and BA appearances:

 

The Trial of Gambit? 1st Wolverine with bone claws? Master Planner Part 2 of 3? Master Planner Part 3 of 3? Magneto rips adamantium from Wolverine? 1st issue of the Marvel Knights run? Wolverine regains adamantium? "Armor Wars"? Death of Illyana? Intro of "new" Psylocke? Wedding of Scott & Jean? Wolverine vs. the Brood? 1st issue by Mark Waid & Ron Garney?

 

Along with a ton of spurious Number 1 Modern issues, like Spider-man 1, X-Force 1, X-Men 1, Iron Man 1 (Vol 3), Avengers 1 (Vol 3), Ultimate X-Men, some of which finish very high. :screwy:

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Bosco685

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18. Captain America #109 (Cap's origin retold!)

 

this list just lost all cred with me, TOS 63 was the first Cap's origin retold. doh!

 

You mean "100. GENERATION X #1" didn't stop you dead right there? For Marvel's top 100 books ever???!!!!

 

lol

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conditionfreak

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Well. According to the link, the list was compiled from comic book fans voting.

 

I presume that some fans were presented with a list to choose from and they put them in order of their top 100 picks. I would hope that all pertiment issues were on the list to choose from, instead of that list being weighted so that once you get past the first few obvious ones, you had to choose from the lesser books that Marvel wanted to put forth as being "something specials".

 

However, that still doesn't explain the ranking of the obvious "best's" like X-Men #1.

 

I wonder what the list would look like if we here on the forum did a poll of the top fifty books from Marvel?

 

hmmm.............have ya'll done that here yet?

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40sJohn

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What we have to understand is that Marvel decided on these books, and since they wanted to heavily promote their more recent and current books, the list is serious top-loaded with comics that are totally meaningless now and weren't much more back then.

 

We all know the important Marvel books were released in the Silver and Bronze Ages, but Marvel likes to fool itself that the following are more important than many Key SA and BA appearances:

The Trial of Gambit? 1st Wolverine with bone claws? Master Planner Part 2 of 3? Master Planner Part 3 of 3? Magneto rips adamantium from Wolverine? 1st issue of the Marvel Knights run? Wolverine regains adamantium? "Armor Wars"? Death of Illyana? Intro of "new" Psylocke? Wedding of Scott & Jean? Wolverine vs. the Brood? 1st issue by Mark Waid & Ron Garney?

 

Along with a ton of spurious Number 1 Modern issues, like Spider-man 1, X-Force 1, X-Men 1, Iron Man 1 (Vol 3), Avengers 1 (Vol 3), Ultimate X-Men, some of which finish very high. :screwy:

 

Dead on with that assessment. This list begins to unravel at #3 with X-MEN 137 (Death of Phoenix) and gets completely laughable at #9 and #10 with Ultimate Spiderman and Wolverine #75 (those bone claws really rocked the comic world!) beating out Hulk 1 and FF 48! :insane::screwy::frustrated:

 

 

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Ebel 1911

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It does say right in the beginning of the article that this list was compiled by votes from "50,000 fans" who apparently voted sometime in or before 2001. Guess that explains why modern comics and X teams were so heavily represented... hm

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