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Best Copper Age Storylines

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By no means all of my faves. Just what I can remember now:

 

Silver Surfer 3-11 (Vol. 3) Elders of the Universe

 

Silver Surfer 40-43 (Vol. 3) Dynamo City

 

There's a story that starts in Web Of Spider-Man #6. I'm not sure how many parts it has - it may continue to Secret Wars II mini or another SM title. I haven't read it in 20yrs, but I still remember it.

 

Iron Man 149-150 DoomQuest

 

Many people know that Tony Stark's alcoholism story starts in the 120's culminating with #128. But I don't think many people know that he struggles with the problem for quite a while and there are some good stories in the 170s and 180s.

 

Iron Man 215-216

 

Iron Man 219-231 The Ghost + Armor Wars

 

Iron Man 237 - one of my favorites of all time

 

Incredible Hulk 299-313 + Annual 13 banished for the first time

 

Crisis on Infinite Earths

 

Spectacular Spider-Man 87-100 Spider-Man/Black Cat drama

 

Spectacular Spider-Man 115-121 Individual stories

 

G.I. Joe 11-25 First large Joe/Cobra battle (Destro, Storm Shadow, Zartan intros)

 

G.I. Joe 26-27 First Origin of Snake-Eyes

 

G.I. Joe 61-67 Escape story

 

Quasar 7 Cosmic race (Barry Allen cameo)

 

Quasar 19-25 Cosmos in Collision

 

Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn 1-6

 

Justice League 1-6

 

Avengers 251-254 Vision goes nuts

 

Wonder Woman 1-10+ Perez WW

 

History of the DC Universe 1-2

 

Man of Steel 1-6

 

Captain America 290-301 Origin and Death of Red Skull

 

Captain America 312, 321-322 Flagsmasher + CA kills

 

Captain America 318-320 Scourge of the Underworld

 

Captain America 327-331 Super Patriot and D-Man Intro

 

Captain America 310, 313, 315 vs. Serpent Society

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You can't go wrong with Vertigo!

 

Hellblazer

Sandman

Books of Magic (especially the four part Limited Series with my favourite DC Character - Phantom Stranger)

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Pardon any miscues on when the Copper Age end or begins. I certainly would agree with many listed above (the JOES are a nice inclusion and Kraven's Last Hunt may have been the last Spidey story of consequence)

 

Here are some of mine:

 

Let's get this out the way. Valiant dominated the later Copper Age when considering great story arcs (and perhaps the opposite as well). Magnus#1-4 (Steel Nation), Solar#1-10 (Alpha and Omega ), and Harbinger#1-4 (Children of the Eight Day) were as good as any storylines in comics.

 

Daredevil#227-#233 (Born Again)

Cerebus#114-136 (Jakka's Stroy)

Superman #423 and Action Comics#583 (Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?)

Batman##404 to #407 (Year One)

Miracleman#10-16 (Olympus)

Miracleman#17-22 (The Golden Age)

Thanos Quest#1, #2

Teen Titans (Judas Contract)

A Distant Soil#1-11 (The Gathering)

Next Men#19-22 (Faith)

Iron Man#225-232 (Iron Wars)

Swamp Thing (American Gothic)

 

G.I.JOE is mentioned above and one of my favorite 'unofficial' arcs is the Cobra Civil War issues (around the 70's).

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Yeah , Iremember being hooked on Doom patrol when that was coming out, you just had NO IDEA where Morrisson was going to take it. It hasn't been that much fun to read a new book in a long time. Maybe preacher, but Can't really come up with anything else right now.

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Watchmen and Miracleman "Olympus" arc are the two best, IMO.

 

Sandman was great almost the whole way thru.

 

Daredevil #168-181 (Elektra) is a classic.

 

Dark Knight Returns

 

Moore's run on Swamp Thing

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My second list of favorite CA storylines:

 

Uncanny X-Men 168-172__Wolverine goes to Japan, Intro Morlocks, 1st Madeline Pryor, 1st Lockheed

 

Uncanny X-Men 182-187_____Rogue fugitive, Storm loses powers, Wraith war

 

Uncanny X-Men 215-216__Storm and Wolverine in the woods against Crimson Commando/Stonewall/Super Sabre

 

Uncanny X-Men 228-238_____X-men "dead", Intro Reavers, Vs. Genosha, Vs. Brood

 

Supervillain Classics: Galactus the Origin_______Lee and Kirby reprint from Thor 160-70

 

X-Factor 24-28________Fall of the Mutants

 

Transformers 1-5_______origin

 

Transformers 17-18_________Cybertron story

 

Transformers 29-30_______Scraplets

 

Transformers 33_______Medieval TF and C.Vess cover

 

Groo - All

 

Aliens(1988) 1-6________first DH mini

 

Starbrand 1-19________because not all of the New Universe was subpar

 

DP7 1-20______because only most of the New Universe was subpar

 

Machine Man 1-4

 

New Mutants 18-24______Demon Bear (great stories and art)

 

New Mutants 47-49_________lost in the future

 

New Mutants 59-61_______Fall of the Mutants

 

X-Men/Alpha Flight 1-2____________Vs. Loki (precursor to NM Special edition 1 and X-Men Annual 9)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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matewan1990

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Trial of the Flash

The Gene Day run on Master of Kung Fu

Super Powers volumes 1 and 2

Red Tornado miniseries

Saga of the Swamp Thing 1-19 Martin Pasko and Tom Yeates run

Starlin's Dreadstar (Epic then First Comics)

Ostrander, Yale and McDonnell/Lewis/Isherwood/Snyder/ Suicide Squad (pick a storyline)

the Master of Evil storyline from Avengers in the 1980s

Avengers 224-225 Avalon and the return of the Black Knight

Yellowjacket goes rogue and the trial of Yellowjacket Avengers 211-230 with the substory of the Black Knight's return in Avengers 225-226 in there to boot

Daredevil 192-200 Klaus Janson and William Johnson issues

Incredible Hulk 273-287 the Bereet saga

Rom 31-34

The Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum/Paul Smith/Walt Simonson X-Men

The J.M. DeMatteis and Don Perlin Defenders (especially those three issues with the Squadron Supreme)

the J.M. DeMatteis and Bob Budiansky Ghost Riders that told GR's origin and ended the series

the J.M. DeMatteis/Luke McDonnell Justice League of America that ended the old series to make way for the new

the Denny O'Neil/Luke McDonnell/Steve Mitchell Iron Man

Gosh ... there are just too many to list ...

Mike B.

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