Wizard Magazine's 100 Best Single Issue Comics between the years 1979-2005

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25 Batman: Holy Terror #1 1991 DC
24 The Incredible Hulk #341 - The Savage Bull Doth Bear the Yoke! 1988 Marvel
23 Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1 2005 Marvel
22 The Flash #182 - Absolute Zero 2002 DC
21 Action Comics #775 - What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & The American Way? 2001 DC
20 Planetary #13 - Century 2001 Wildstorm
19 Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1 - High Tide 1987 Marvel
18 Justice League #1 - Born Again 1987 DC
17 Fantastic Four #245 - Childhood's End 1982 Marvel
16 The Amazing Spider-Man #239 - Now Strikes the Hobgoblin 1983 Marvel
15 The Uncanny X-Men #159 - Night Screams! 1982 Marvel
14 Starman #11 - 13 Years Ago: Five Friends - A Tale of Times Past 1995 DC
13 Planetary #3 - Dead Gunfighters 1999 Wildstorm
12 Superman #9 - To Laugh and Die In Metropolis; Metropolis, 900 mi. 1987 DC
11 100 Bullets #27 - Idol Chatter 2001 Vertigo
10 Daredevil #191 - Roulette 1983 Marvel
9 Gotham by Gaslight: An Alternative History of the Batman #1 - Gotham by Gaslight 1989 DC
8 Ultimate Spider-Man #28 - Sidetracked 2002 Marvel
7 The Saga of Swamp Thing #21 - The Anatomy Lesson 1984 DC
6 Kurt Busiek's Astro City #½ - The Nearness of You 1998 Wildstorm
5 Ultimate Spider-Man #13 - Confessions 2001 Marvel
4 Superman Annual #11 - For the Man Who has Everything... 1985 DC
3 Batman: The Killing Joke #1 - The Killing Joke 1988 DC
2 The Sandman #8 - Master of Dreams, Part 8: The Sound of Her Wings 1989 Vertigo
1 Top 10 #8 - The Overview 2000 America's Best Comics

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50 Iron Man #237 - Star Hunter! 1988 Marvel
49 Ghost Rider Annual #2 - Wish For Pain 1994 Marvel
48 What If...? #4 - What If the Alien Costume Had Possessed Spider-Man? 1989 Marvel
47 Flinch #1 - Rocket-Man; Nice Neighborhood; Wolf Girl Eats 1999 Vertigo
46 Hitman #34 - Of Thee I Sing 1999 DC
45 The Sandman #18 - Dream Country: A Dream of a Thousand Cats 1990 Vertigo
44 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #21 - Silent Interlude 1984 Marvel
43 H-E-R-O #11 - The Great Leap Forward 2004 DC
42 The New Teen Titans #38 - Who is Donna Troy? 1984 DC
41 Iron Man #128 - Demon in a Bottle 1979 Marvel
40 X-Factor #87 - X-Aminations 1993 Marvel
39 Captain America #7 - Interlude: The Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe 2005 Marvel
38 The Spectre #5 - A Rage in Hell 1993 DC
37 Fables: The Last Castle #1 - The Last Castle 2003 Vertigo
36 The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #15 - Spider-Man: Threat or Menace? 1981 Marvel
35 The Omega Men #26 - The Unquiet Void 1985 DC
34 Birds of Prey #8 - On Wings 1999 DC
33 Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography #1 1989 DC
32 The Incredible Hulk #340 - Vicious Circle 1988 Marvel
31 Spider-Man's Tangled Web #4 - Severance Package 2001 Marvel
30 The Avengers #189 - Wings And Arrows! 1979 Marvel
29 Green Lantern #188 - Decent Exposure / Mogo Doesn't Socialize 1985 DC
28 Batman #424 - The Diplomat's Son 1988 DC
27 Preacher #18 - Texas and the Spaceman 1996 Vertigo
26 The Incredible Hulk #420 - Lest Darkness Come

75 American Century #9 - Route 66 2002 Vertigo
74 Batman Black And White #4 1996 DC
73 Justice League Annual #1 - Germ Warfare 1987 DC
72 Preacher: Tall in the Saddle #1 - Tall in the Saddle 2000 Vertigo
71 The New Teen Titans #20 - Dear Mom and Dad 1982 DC
70 Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth #1 - Night on Earth 2003 DC
69 The Sandman #17 - Dream Country: Calliope 1990 Vertigo
68 Batman: Gotham Knights #8 - Transference, Part 1 of Four 2000 DC
67 Nightwing #25 - The Boys 1998 DC
66 Adventure Comics #466 - The Cloud with the Lethal Lining!; Never Say Die!; The Defeat of the Justice Society!; Death on Ice 1979 DC
65 The Avengers Annual #10 - By Friends Betrayed 1981 Marvel
64 The Sandman #40 - The Parliament of Rooks 1992 Vertigo
63 The Avengers #217 - Double-Cross! 1982 Marvel
62 Batman Black And White #1 1996 DC
61 The Incredible Hulk #393 - The Closing Circle; Grudge Match; Psychological Ramifications of Gamma Radiation 1992 Marvel
60 The Sandman #50 - Ramadan 1993 Vertigo
59 The Thing #2 - For Beauty Passed Away 1983 Marvel
58 Doctor Strange #56 - A Mystic Reborn! 1982 Marvel
57 Dark Horse Presents #1 - Black Cross; Concrete; Mindwalk; Brighter! 1986 Dark Horse
56 Animal Man #7 - The Death of the Red Mask 1989 DC
55 Legion of Super-Heroes #13 - If You Think the Khunds are Cuddly, You'll Love the Lythyls 1985 DC
54 Secret Origins Special #1 - Featuring Gotham City's Vilest Villains! 1989 DC
53 Hellblazer #63 - Forty 1993 Vertigo
52 100 Bullets #11 - Heartbreak, Sunnyside Up 2000 Vertigo
51 Classic X-Men #25 - T'was The Night Before Christmas 1988 Marvel

100 Ghost Rider #68 - The Curse of Jonathan Blaze! 1982 Marvel
99 Alias #10 - [untitled] 2002 Max
98 The Punisher #10 - The Creep 1988 Marvel
97 The Uncanny X-Men #268 - Madripoor Knights 1990 Marvel
96 Legion of Super-Heroes #3 2005 DC
95 Animal Man #15 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 1989 DC
94 Demo #3 - Bad Blood 2004 AiT/Planet Lar
93 Hitman #22 - The Santa Contract 1998 DC
92 Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1 - Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold 1985 DC
91 Exiles #16 - Nocturne and Evensong 2002 Marvel
90 Underworld Unleashed: Batman - Devil's Asylum #1 - Arkham: Devil's Asylum 1995 DC
89 Preacher Special: Cassidy : Blood and Whiskey #1 - Blood and Whiskey 1998 Vertigo
88 Semper Fi #1 - Reunion; Beach Head 1988 Marvel
87 Fantastic Four #60 - Inside Out 2002 Marvel
86 Tales of the New Teen Titans #1 - Cyborg 1982 DC
85 Robin #46 - Dark at Dawn 1997 DC
84 The Amazing Spider-Man #248 - And He Strikes Like A Thunderball; The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man 1984 Marvel
83 Conan the Barbarian #100 - Death on the Black Coast! 1979 Marvel
82 Adventures of Superman #474 - Face to Face with Yesterday 1991 DC
81 Legion of Super-Heroes #296 - What Do You Do on the Day after Doomsday? 1983 DC
80 Preacher #50 - The Land of Bad Things 1999 Vertigo
79 Kurt Busiek's Astro City #1 - In Dreams 1995 Image
78 Fantastic Four #3 - Happy New Year, Reed Richards... Now DIE! 1998 Marvel
77 Web of Spider-Man #1 - 'Til Death Do Us Part! 1985 Marvel
76 The Batman Adventures Annual #1 - Laughter After Midnight 1994 DC

Why the fuck is your numbering so out of order. What the fuck are you doing

Cool

I've always wanted to read Top 8

Alan Moore is best writer in business

This. I thought I was dyslexic for a couple seconds

> 2 The Sandman #8
13 my fav

Like every Wizard list it's heavily biased towards meme shit that was released in the last five years

>96 Legion of Super-Heroes #3 2005 DC
So not a single issue of the first reboot made the list but the resolution to Triplicate Girl's self created triangle drama from the worst run does. This guy has got to be a waifufag.

Is number 8 the one where Dream is depressed and Death cheers him up?

Yeah

>it's heavily biased towards meme shit that was released in the last five years
>comics released 1979-2005

What year do you think it is?

The last five years at the time of publication is what I obviously meant.

>3 Ultimate Spider-man issues in the top 25
>USM #13 is number 5
I fucking love Ultimate Spider-man, but that's just retarded, and it shows an obvious recency bias.

Honestly, with maybe a few exceptions, there's no reason for multiple issues from the same run to be on there. There's 4 Preacher issues on there, but in reality, most issues of Preacher are probably better than a lot of that list.

Top 10 is criminally underrated but issue 8 won because it was referenced in True Detective.

>magazine published years before True Detective aired
>picked a comic because of a show that didn't come out til years later
How fucking retarded are you?

>BEN AFFLECK AS DAREDEVIL
>1st Photo & Movie Secrets Inside

We were so young then.

Nah, #13 is kino

I'm familiar with the issue - it's great. But the 5th best comic book of those 25 years?

That issue made it top 5 and "The Conversation" from ASM didnt

That´s sad

What the fuck is The Conversation? Do you mean The Talk you youtube recap watching faggot

Morronson btfo

You know, on some days I wonder what Wizard Magazine would look like now in the era of the MCU and DCEU.

Probably shilling all the time but I would be curious.

>78 Fantastic Four #3 - Happy New Year, Reed Richards... Now DIE! 1998 Marvel
this list is unironically based

Its pretty much a lot of cape comics biased towards books with a small degree of resale value.
Keep in mind, Wizard was a magazine about collecting and reselling comics with the intention of making a profit. The Comic Journals Top 100 Comics of the 20th Century List is a lot better.
>1-25
Krazy Kat by George Herriman
Peanuts by Charles Schulz
Pogo by Walt Kelly
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay
Feiffer by Jules Feiffer
Donald Duck by Carl Barks
Mad Comics by Harvey Kurtzman and various
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green
The Weirdo stories of Robert Crumb
Thimble Theatre by E.C. Segar
EC's "New Trend" war comics by Harvey Kurtzman and various
Wigwam Bam (L&R) by Jaime Hernandez
Blood of Palomar (L&R) by Gilbert Hernandez
The Spirit by Will Eisner
RAW Magazine, edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly
The Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware
Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett
The Sketchbooks of Robert Crumb
Uncle Scrooge by Carl Barks
The New Yorker cartoons of Peter Arno
The Death of Speedy Ortíz (L&R) by Jaime Hernandez
Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff
Flies on the Ceiling (L&R) by Jaime Hernandez
Wash Tubbs by Roy Crane

>26-50
The Jungle Book by Harvey Kurtzman
Palestine by Joe Sacco
The Mishkin saga by Kim Deitch
Gasoline Alley by Frank King
The Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Poison River (L&R) by Gilbert Hernandez
Plastic Man by Jack Cole
Dick Tracy by Chester Gould
The theatrical caricatures of Al Hirschfeld
The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau
The autobiographical comics from Yummy Fur by Chester Brown
The editorial cartoons of Pat Oliphant
The Kin-der-Kids by Lyonel Feininger
From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
The Idiots Abroad (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) by Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides
Paul Auster's City of Glass by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
Cages by Dave McKean
The Buddy Bradley saga by Peter Bagge
The cartoons of James Thurber
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Tantrum by Jules Feiffer

>calls people faggot
>is 100% wrong
What's it like to be a retarded casual, user?

That's a biased list too.

>51-75
The Alec stories of Eddie Campbell
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth
The editorial cartoons of Herblock
EC's "New Trend" horror comics by Al Feldstein and various
The Frank stories by Jim Woodring
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor
A Contract with God by Will Eisner
The New Yorker cartoons of Charles Addams
Little Lulu by John Stanley
Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin
American Splendor #1-10 by Harvey Pekar and various
Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray
Hey Look! by Harvey Kurtzman
Goodman Beaver by Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Elder
Bringing Up Father by George McManus
Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith
The Passport by Saul Steinberg
Barnaby by Crockett Johnson
God's Man by Lynd Ward
Jimbo by Gary Panter
The Book of Jim by Jim Woodring
The short stories in Rubber Blanket by David Mazzucchelli
The Cartoon History of the Universe by Larry Gonick
Ernie Pook's Comeek by Lynda Barry
Black Hole by Charles Burns

You're both right, but you're more right for actually talking about ASM

>76-100
The Master Race story by Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein
Li'l Abner by Al Capp
Sugar and Spike by Sheldon Mayer
Captain Marvel by C. C. Beck
Zap Comix by Robert Crumb and various
The Lily stories (Daddy's Girl) by Debbie Drechsler
Caricature by Daniel Clowes
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
The Willie and Joe cartoons of Bill Mauldin
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
The New Yorker cartoons of George Price
Jack Kirby's Fourth World by Jack Kirby
The autobiographical comics of Spain Rodriguez
Mr. Punch by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The "Pictopia" story by Alan Moore and Don Simpson
Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham
The humor comics of Basil Wolverton
Los Tejanos by Jack Jackson (alias Jaxon)
The Dirty Plotte series by Julie Doucet
The Hannah Story by Carol Tyler
Barney Google by Billy DeBeck
The Bungle Family by Harry J. Tuthill
Prince Valiant by Hal Foster
Fair enough, but at least TCJ's biases where based on trying to expose the comic readership to cultured books that explored the possibilities of cartooning and the comic medium, not just a book that will have good resale value in a few years. Keep in mind that the industry pretty much had collapsed in the mid 90's, and it was a lot on the feet of Wizard inflating the bubble.

>BEN AFFLECK AS BATMAN
>1st Photo & Movie Secrets Inside

How the times have changed

Yeah, the Talk exists, but the dude clearly said ASM. Also the list goes up until 2005. Also, it would be fine if someone's wrong, but being wrong while calling others a youtube recap watching faggot is just too funny.

This'll be a fucking good laugh, and no mistake!

>Fair enough, but at least TCJ's biases where based on trying to expose the comic readership to cultured books that explored the possibilities of cartooning and the comic medium, not just a book that will have good resale value in a few years
Sure, but when the only cape comics, at least that I'm noticing are:

>Watchmen
>ASM by Lee & Ditko
>FF by Lee & Kirby
>Jack Kirby's 4th World

...that's just boring. Yeah, those are good books, I'm not going to deny that, but they're such obvious choices.

>cultured books
Come me on, man... Ducks, Captain Marvel, Fantastic Four... I like them too but let's not pretend they're "cultured books"

>No Hellblazer 56
Fucking hell. Downloading all of Hellblazer now, if this thread is still up I'm storytiming.

Is this a single issue story general?

Kek no you won't, I will though

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We need more of those

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Thanks lad, I lost my last hard drive and lost the comic, I'm just downloading all of Hellblazer because I like to have it, and I couldn't find 56 on its own.
I've storytimed it many times though, I love that issue.

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Oh yeah, this is a good issue

The comparison is fucking retarded because it's a single issue story list in the OP, stop shilling TCJ they're a cancerous shit magazine, they claim to be for artistry and autonomy of creators but shat all over Dave Sim.

Now, that's a much better list! Crumb's Weirdo stories are probably some of the best comics he's ever done, though I think Self-Loathing Comics and Hup! are great too.
How is that a biased list?
I really don't think that's a fair comment, if anything it's unbiased and extremely eclectic. So many of my favourite comics/cartoonists on that list...didn't both Groth and Thompson later admit that Cerebus (High Society, I think?) should have been included but wasn't because of their personal/editorial antipathy towards Dave Sim?

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There is a clear method to the madness, apply yourselves.

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>What is copypasting from a descending list

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Holy shit just counted and I've read exactly 85 of that TCJ list and own 43 of those comics (more if you count the original issues, like the Chester Brown stuff, RAW, L & R, the Woodring stuff and Acme Novelty Library. Also got that great IDW/Yoe! books Barney Google book that came out a few years back, probably my favourite of the old Hearst strips but I love Crane's Captain easy, too

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You're a disappointment to your mother and father

This is some nice David Lloyd art

Everything in that list except L&R and Acme novelty library is shit too.

He also drew the two issues that Morrison wrote (25 and 26).
Dillon and Simpson were Ennis' regular artists, and I greatly preferred Simpson

Lol
You've read everything in the list?! Christ, I thought I was well-read....

>I don't even like comics: The Post

Oh, thanks, never really read Hellblazer when I was a young 'un, I still have a few of the Dillon floppies though, a couple of the Simpson issues too. You're making me feel old, I still have my old 2000AD's with the Rogue Trooper story he did that Dave Gibbons wrote, is that in any of the Rebellion collections, do you know?
Also Lloyd did some great work on that weird DC horror anthology written by (I think) Bill Messner-Loebs, Wastelands, was it called?! That was such a cool, weird little comic for a mainstream title.

Lel
True dat

Thanks nigger. You got 11? Newcastle? That's the other one I like to storytime.

>I've never read a comic: the posts

Different user but:

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I'd storytime it, but I think this thread should be for the stuff on the list

The list sucks cock though. Both 11 and 56 are better than 63. The list is based on resale value effectively/

based

Lol, been reading comics before I fucking could read words, so since about 1982/'83--probably longer than you've been alive, I'd wager. Collecting seriously since roughly '86, if you want a dick measuring contest. Saying The Master Race, one of the first comics to deal with the Holocaust and a revolutionary comic in it's "panelling" (amongst other formal sequential art devices) etc, a hugely influential, what--8 page? story is "shit" confirms you know bugger all about the medium and it's history. Not to mention Basil Wolverton, Little Orphan Annie, Kurtzman's Jungle Book, Hey Look and EC work and all the great underground and "alternative" stuff on this list is asinine as fuck. You might be able to tell me who would win in a fight between fucking Superman and The Hulk but I don't think you know sweet Fanny Adams about comics. That, or you're a trolling /lit/ elitist (I'm more inclined to think the latter with your praise for Acme Novelty Library, especially since Jimmy Corrigan is beloved by that kind of "lover of REAL literature, not those awful GENRE airport novels hawhawhaw!". And L & R tends to get a lot of broadsheet attention too..Oh and I stated in my first post I've read like 80-odd of the entries in the TCJ list and own just under half of those.
That's bollocks, they were the first "real" (US) journo publication that disseminated the idea that comics could be "art" and as worthy of academic discussion as any other medium. Look at what they did for Kirby. Look at how creators and readers alike rallied around when Fantagraphics were nearly sued out of existence. They were always the first to expose Big Two (or, indeed, any company big or small--like the whole Black Eye/Michael Vrana thing, as a for instance) fuckery and yes, as you say they were always for creators rights. Like I said earlier both Groth and Thompson admitted that they acted like dicks over the whole Sim thing and that Cerebus would've been included in their top 100...

...(continued) in their top 100 list but wasn't because they were acting like petty schoolboys (that's more-or-less a Thompson quote, btw). If it wasn't for TCJ we wouldn't have Fantagraphics, really and at it's best (Tom Spurgeon's editorship being one such time) i was indispensable for unbiased news and reviews about every single facet of comics you can imagine. Hell, they frequently ran reviews or commentary openly critical of work BY FANTAGRAPHICS ARTISTS! Books they were fucking publishing! If that isn't journalistic integrity I don't know what the fuck is.

They'd always run weird, highly academic shit which was almost a parody of itself though, I forget the name of the worst offender but he'd use the most tangential connection to comics or an individual work to pull the most boring, scholarly and pretentious articles out of his arse...might've been Bart Beatty? Hell they fucking HATED Todd Mcfarlane's work but they still gave him the cover (a drawing of Gary Groth's decapitated head) an a long, career-spanning interview...I'm sad it's doesn't even see print yearly now as the website is a pale imitation of what it once was..fuck, I remember the old messageboard where you'd regularly get famous creators chiming in, defending their own work or shitting on someone else's...glory days, indeed.
Sorry for the long reply but you kind of rustled my jimmies, user, I make no bones about that!
And TCJ never indulged in "pay for play" like Wizard!