Amazing Spider Man #293-294, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #131-132, Web of Spider-Man #31-32 - "Kraven's Last Hunt" - A riveting storyline featuring some solid character development on the part of Spider-Man and one of his classic villians.
Avengers #182-187 - "The Yesterday Quest" - Great Byrne art, provides new details on the origin of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller's now-classic telling of the future Batman.
Brave and the Bold #129-130 - Batman, Green Arrow and the Atom tangle with the Joker and Two-Face. Neat charactization with great ending.
Captain America #253-254 - More great Byrne art and solid, internally consistent storyline featuring the return of Baron Blood, one of the Invaders greatest enemies of World War II.
Crisis on Infinite Earths#1 - 12 - DC Classic Maxi-series leading to the destruction of the multiverse. Particularly good is #7, the death of Supergirl. Probably the death-knell of DC's Internal Consistency but undoubtedly some of the best character work on the Supermen of Earth-2 and Earth-1 DC has done. What a waste that DC squandered this great character development with mindless retcons!
Daredevil #181 & 190 - The death and resurrection of Elektra. Frank Miller's best.
DC Comics Presents Annual #1 - 3 Kryptonians, 3 Luthors, 3 Earths make for 1 great story!
Detective #463-468 - The JLA vs the Calculator - A series of single stories leading up to a grand finale featuring the combined efforts of the Justice League against a villian programmed to defeat them all!
Detective #479-479 - Introduction of Preston Payne as Clayface III - solid art and storytelling
DC Super-Stars #10 - "The Great Super-Star Game" - Solid single-issue story featuring a simple premise and classic Dick Dillin art.
DC Super-Stars #14 - "The Secret Origin of Two-Face - Double Take!" - In my opinion, one of the best Two-Face stories ever told.
"Emperor Doom" - Marvel Graphic Novel illustrating the classic character of Victor Von Doom
Flash vol 2,#73-79 - "The Return of Barry Allen" - Mark Waid's thriller featuring 3 generations of Flash and the "return" of one of Barry Allen's greatest foes.
Green Lantern #188 - "Mogo doesn't socialize" - Probably the best of the Tales of the Green Lantern Corps. Pity we don't have the GLC anymore.
Infinity Inc #1-10 - "The Generations Saga" - Perfect Roy Thomas story, the kind he tells when he's not buried in details. Ties a Golden Age story (All-Star #36) and a classic villian (the Ultra Humanite) with the introduction of new characters from Earth-2 (Brainwave Jr, Nuklon, Jade, Obsidian, Fury, Silver Scarab).
Justice League of America #165-167 - "The Long Way Home", "Five Heroes Too Many" and "The Last Great Switcheroo" - chronicles the final defeat of the original Secret Society of Super-Villians.
Justice League of America #192-193 - "The True Origin of the Red Tornado" - Remember when retcons were supposed to improve continuity? This is great example. Perez art too.
Justice League of America #195-197 - "Targets on Two-Worlds" - Probably the perfect JLA-JSA team up. Great vignettes of the older characters, revivals of Golden Age villians and a great demonstration of exactly the type of threat these team-ups were supposed to deal with.
The New Teen Titans #38 - "Who is Donna Troy?" - One of the most solid, emotional single issue stories of the super-hero genre. Resolves the niggling origin details of the original Wonder Girl.
Sandman Mystery Theatre #29-32 - "The Hourman" - Great retelling of the origin of Hourman from Wesley Dodd's perspective without the usual mauling of established continuity. Great perspective on Rex Tyler.
Starman #0-4- "Sins of the Fathers" - Great characterization of some aging Golden agers.
Swamp Thing #50 - "The End" - Alan Moore's tale of staggering proportions: the reconciliation between good and evil.
The Uncanny X-men #125-128 - The Proteus Saga - The X-men tackle the mutant son of Moira MacTaggert. Great Byrne art and amazingly solid story-telling.
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