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The Copper 100: The Most Important Marvel Comics (1984-1991)

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Mayor006

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What about Spidey 258?

 

Reed tells Spidey that the black costume is actually an alien symbiote and then removes and contains it. Kind of a pre-Venom origin of sorts.

 

sexy-stretching-0.jpg

 

I don't know what to make of that picture, but, um, yeah, I like it. :shy:

 

Stretching it a little too far.

 

lol

 

Well it is Reed Richards..... ba dum dump

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Bosco685

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OT: are you going to attempt the massive task of making an independent version of this list?

 

:wishluck:

 

And it will be massive. Especially when you think of all the semi-keys, keys, and potential keys that are out there.

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:ohnoez:

 

I started, but then realized just how big that list could be. It's one thing to put together a list of major keys or the obvious big ones, but once you go down the rabbit hole, you might never come back.

 

You know, here's what I'll do. Give me a few days to get a longer list together, and then we'll just build it together. See where it goes. Might be more fun that way anyway.

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B-Smooth

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I think that's the way to do it. One by one. Chip away at it. This might be the wrong place, but oh well.

TMNT 1 (duh)

TMNT 3 ( that ny version)

Gobbley goop.. Forgot what it's called

Albedo 0 (yellow limited to 50)

Albedo 2

Adventurers 1 (limited)

Fish police 1

Macross 1

The Realm 4 (Deadworld)

Some of those weak TMNT ripoffs

... Half a million more...

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Bosco685

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Okay, time to put a fork in this list.

 

 

Reno's 100: The Most Important Marvel Comics 1980-1989

  1. Alpha Flight 1 First Puck
  2. Alpha Flight 33 First Lady Deathstrike
  3. Alpha Flight 51 1st Jim Lee
  4. Amazing Spider-Man 200 Origin retold
  5. Amazing Spider-Man 238 First Hobgoblin
  6. Amazing Spider-Man 239 Second Hobgoblin
  7. Amazing Spider-Man 252 1st black costume
  8. Amazing Spider-Man 289 Death of Ned Leeds
  9. Amazing Spider-Man 293 Kraven’s Last Hunt
  10. Amazing Spider-Man 294 Kraven’s Last Hunt
  11. Amazing Spider-Man 298 Todd McFarlane begins; 1st Eddie Brock
  12. Amazing Spider-Man 299 1st brief Venom
  13. Amazing Spider-Man 300 First full Venom
  14. Amazing Spider-Man 312 Hobgoblin vs. Green Goblin
  15. Amazing Spider-Man 316 Venom app
  16. Amazing Spider-Man Ann. 21 Marriage issue
  17. Avengers 257 1st Nebula
  18. Avengers 270 Under Siege
  19. Avengers 271 Under Siege
  20. Avengers 272 Under Siege
  21. Avengers 273 Under Siege
  22. Avengers 274 Under Siege
  23. Avengers 275 Under Siege
  24. Avengers 276 Under Siege
  25. Avengers 277 Under Siege
  26. Captain America 241 Miller; Punisher app
  27. Captain America 332 Cap resigns
  28. Captain America Annual 8 Wolverine
  29. Daredevil 168 First Elektra
  30. Daredevil 169 Second Elektra
  31. Daredevil 181 Death of Elektra
  32. Daredevil 182 Drugs; Punisher
  33. Daredevil 183 Drugs; Punisher
  34. Daredevil 184 Drugs; Punisher
  35. Daredevil 227 Frank Miller; Born Again
  36. Daredevil 228 Frank Miller; Born Again
  37. Daredevil 229 Frank Miller; Born Again
  38. Daredevil 230 Frank Miller; Born Again
  39. Daredevil 231 Frank Miller; Born Again
  40. Daredevil 232 Frank Miller; Born Again
  41. Daredevil 233 Frank Miller; Born Again
  42. Daredevil 254 1st Typhoid Mary
  43. Ghost Rider 1
  44. GI Joe 1 First issue
  45. GI Joe 21 1st Storm Shadow; silent issue
  46. GI Joe 25 1st Zartan
  47. GI Joe 26 Origin Snake Eyes
  48. GI Joe 27 Origin Snake Eyes
  49. GI Joe 93 Snake Eyes’ face revealed
  50. Incredible Hulk 271 Second Rocket Racoon
  51. Incredible Hulk 330 McFarlane; Ross dies
  52. Incredible Hulk 331 Grey Hulk
  53. Incredible Hulk 340 Hulk vs. Wolverine
  54. Iron Man 169 Rhodes becomes Iron Man
  55. Longshot 1 1st Longshot
  56. The ‘Nam 1st issue
  57. New Mutants Annual 2 1st Psylocke
  58. Punisher Limited Series 1 1st issue
  59. Punisher Limited Series 2
  60. Punisher Limited Series 3
  61. Punisher Limited Series 4
  62. Punisher Limited Series 5
  63. Savage She-Hulk 1 First She-Hulk
  64. Secret Wars 1 Copper age begins; cross-overs begin
  65. Secret Wars 8 Black costume
  66. Spectacular Spider-Man 64 First Cloak and Dagger
  67. Spectacular Spider-Man 107 Death of Jean DeWolff
  68. Spectacular Spider-Man 131 Kraven
  69. Spectacular Spider-Man 132 Kraven
  70. Spider-Man vs. Wolverine 1 Death of Ned Leeds
  71. Star Wars 107 Final issue; low distribution
  72. Thor 337 First Beta Ray bill
  73. Thor 411 1st brief New Warriors
  74. Thor 412 1st New Warriors
  75. Uncanny X-Men 129 Kitty Pryde; Emma Frost
  76. Uncanny X-Men 130 Dazzler
  77. Uncanny X-Men 137 Death of Phoenix
  78. Uncanny X-Men 141 Days of Future Past
  79. Uncanny X-Men 142 Days of Future Past
  80. Uncanny X-Men 201 1st app Cable as baby
  81. Uncanny X-Men 205 Wolverine by BWSmith
  82. Uncanny X-Men 210 Mutant Massacre
  83. Uncanny X-Men 211 Mutant Massacre
  84. Uncanny X-Men 212 Mutant Massacre; Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
  85. Uncanny X-Men 213 Mutant Massacre; Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
  86. Uncanny X-Men 221 1st Mr. Sinister
  87. Uncanny X-Men 222 Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
  88. Uncanny X-Men 244 1st Jubilee
  89. Uncanny X-Men 248 1st Jim Lee
  90. Web of Spider-Man 1 Black costume; 1st issue
  91. Web of Spider-Man 18 1st Venom?
  92. Web of Spider-Man 31 Kraven
  93. Web of Spider-Man 32 Kraven
  94. Wolverine (Limited Series) 1
  95. Wolverine 1 1st issue
  96. Wolverine 10 1st battle between Wolverine and Sabretooth
  97. X-Factor 1 1st issue
  98. X-Factor 5 1st brief Apocalypse
  99. X-Factor 6 1st Apocalypse
  100. X-Factor 24 1st Archangel
     
    Oh, and:
  101. Amazing Spider-Man 265 1st Silver Sable :cloud9:

 

We forgot Savage Tales Vol. 2 #1 (1985) - 1st "The 'Nam" story

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Reno McCoy

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Bring back the pressmans! Gold, (and silver) second print goodness. Very scarce in high grade. Extremely popular, and sought after. The works. Hear hear!

 

I've been thinking about this same thing lately. When I first started tabulating the lists, I wanted to include the best stories instead of just a list of key and semi-key issues. I wanted to capture the essence of the copper age, regardless of value.

 

The more I look at the lists, however, I'm realizing that skipping variants or sought after second prints is doing the list a disservice. If these second prints are popular and important, they should be included. I'm sure there's easily 10 issues or so on this Marvel List that could easily be cut to make way for the Pressmans.

 

Then again, that would just make it a list of key and semi-key issues, and what's the point of that? :tonofbricks:

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B-Smooth

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It's certainly a tough list to make. It can stray in different directions, really easy. In this case, i figured they belonged, as well as some of the other 2nd print/variant type books on a "must own" list.

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B-Smooth

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It's a great list. I wouldn't take any off. I tend to collect some of the different printings of books that have become popular over the last few years, which is why I pushed for pressman love. I think the Venom book came out after '91, so that's probably out. The Hulk 377 3rd print came out later, but the original 377 came out in '91. So you could probably grandfather the 3rd printing onto the list. The JC penny reprints are great to add, but there are so many of them. Same with the So Much Fun books. I mentioned Thundercats 1. Don't laugh. It was a $10 book back in the mid 80's. It made people take notice of the Star books.

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I won't make fun of Thundercats. I actually had that and a few other Star books on the list prior to my first post, but took off the Star books. That was me first inching toward making it only Marvel 616 books, but I couldn't take off things like 'Nam or GI Joe.

 

Makes me think that instead of having a cap at 100 issues, I should just have a running ranking and make it as long as necessary. :ohnoez:

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