FFF Results Post #160—Old-Fashioned

On Friday, CR asked its readers to "Name Five Specific Superhero Serial Storylines Of Which You're Fond (In Other Words, You Don't Have To Be Able To Make A Case For Them, You Just Have to Like Them)." This is how they responded.

*****



Tom Spurgeon

1. "The Sleepers Trilogy," Captain America in Tales Of Suspense
2. X-Men Vs. Alpha Flight (Alpha Flight's First Appearance)
3. Iron Man Kills The Carnelian Ambassador
4. Shang-Chi and Company on the Island of Mordillo
5. Weird, Cross-Dimensional Crossover Story In Fantastic Four #160-163 Including Cosmic Hockey-Playing Alternate World Johnny Storm That I Still Don't Understand 30 Years Later

*****



David Welsh

1. The Headmen/Nebulon arc in Defenders
2. The Brand Corporation/Serpent Crown arc in Avengers
3. Those back-up stories introducing Harlequin in Batman Family
4. The Manhunter back-up series in Detective Comics
5. The Calculator series of stories in Detective Comics

*****



Andrew Mansell

1. "Death Watch!" -- Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2
2. "Flesh of My Flesh" -- Master of Kung Fu #116-118
3. "Return to the Bowl Shaped World" -- Nexus #45-50
4. Swamp Thing in Gotham -- Swamp Thing #52-53
5. "Suddenly -- The Celestials" -- The Mighty Thor #283-301

*****



Tom Bondurant

1. Rupert Thorne outlaws Batman and Robin while Bruce Wayne romances Silver St. Cloud, Detective Comics #s 469-76
2. The Justice League and Justice Society meet the Legion of Super-Heroes, Justice League of America #s 147-48
3. The Doom Patrol meets the Brotherhood of Dada, Doom Patrol vol. 2 #s 26-29
4. The Fantastic Four (along with Thor and Iron Man) face the Black Celestial, FF #s 337-41
5. Dr. Polaris traps Green Lantern at the North Pole, steals his power ring, and takes over Los Angeles, Green Lantern vol. 2 #s 133-35

*****



James Langdell

1. Flash -- A sequence where Wally West disappeared mysteriously, and you hardly noticed because William Messner-Loebs made the supporting cast so interesting.
2. Green Lantern -- The issues (with numeric countdown titles) running parallel to the run of Crisis On Infinite Earths.
3. Captain Atom -- Sequence leading up to him getting out from under the blackmail threats by Col. Eiling.
4. Batman/Detective -- Storyline introducing Black Mask and the False Face Society (starting Batman #386).
5. Thor -- A spell preventing Thor from healing causes him to become gradually immobilized by injuries over several issues.

*****



Russell Lissau

1. Uncanny X-Men in Japan (Claremont/Smith era)
2. All-Star Squadron battle Brainwave, and Green Lantern destroys the world
3. Daredevil: Born Again
4. Amazing Spider-Man: The original Hobgoblin arc (from the 230s until at least the 270s, I think)
5. Bloom County: Billy and the Boingers

*****



Mark Coale

1. JLA/JSA v SSOSV (Justice League 195-197)
2. Reuben Flagg in England
3. Avengers -- "Celestial Madonna"
4. Starman -- Solomun Grundy arc
5. Iron Man -- Armor Wars I

*****



Booksteve

1- Dr. Doom gets the Silver Surfer's Power in FF
2- Superman catches Virus X in Action Comics
3- Dr. Strange on the run from Mordo and Dormammu in Strange Tales
4- Steranko's Captain America run
5- Mike Barr's run with Alan Davis on Batman

*****



Doug Gray

1. The Spider-Man storyline about the ancient tablet, Amazing Spider-Man #68-77 (art by Romita/Buscema/Mooney!)
2. The Golden Age #1-4 (Robinson/Smith)
3. Doctor Strange #59-62 (Doctor Strange vs Dracula)
4. "Who Killed Batman?" -- Batman #291-294
5. "Spidey Joins Doc Ock!" -- Amazing Spider-Man #53-57

*****



Dave Knott

* The Monster Society of Evil
* Thor: The Great Surtur Saga
* Doctor Strange: The first journey through Dormammu's realm and subsequent battle with Eternity
* Kraven's Last Hunt
* Miracleman: Olympus

*****



Buzz Dixon

1 - Captain Marvel (silver age) vs Thanos of Titan
2 - Captain Marvel (classic) vs the Monster Society of Evil
3 - "The Coming Of Galactus"
4 - Cannon
5 - Nick Fury: "Who is Scorpio?"

*****



Evan Dorkin

1. Batman Year One
2. Captain Marvel vs The Monster Society of Evil
3. Defenders vs The Head Men.
4. The 70's Avengers vs. The Squadron Supreme bit. I think it was called the Serpent Crown Affair or something like that.
5. Captain America: Madbomb. Nuff' Said.

*****



Scott Cederlund

* Dark Phoenix
* The original Ras Al Ghul storyline by O'Neil & Adams
* Jim Starlin's original Adam Warlock
* The New Teen Titans' Death of Terra
* The Kree/Skull War

*****



Jeff Chanley

* ROM -- Total War
* Amazing Spider-Man -- First 6 issues of black costume
* Daredevil -- Typhoid Mary
* Detective -- Return of Hugo Strange
* Captain America and The Falcon -- The Secret of File 116

*****



Gil Roth

* The Great Darkness Saga
* Korvac Saga
* Days of Future Past
* DD: Born Again
* Bats: Year One

*****



Christopher Keels

* "The Defeat of Dr. Strange" (extended Mordo/ Dormammu/ Eternity serial in Lee-Ditko Strange Tales)
* "Musical Minds" -- Defenders vs. Headmen/ Bozos
* "Panther's Rage"
* Warlock vs. the Magus
* Thor... Frog!

*****



Don MacPherson

1) Crisis on Infinite Earths
2) Avengers: Under Siege
3) The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
4) All-Star Squadron: Origin of the Freedom Fighters
5) Suicide Squad: "Baptism of Fire"

*****



Frank Santoro

* Daredevil "Typhoid Mary" run with Romita Jr
* Byrne FF's with Doom, late 250's?
* Ross Andru Spidey and Green Goblins (late 170's Amazing)
* "Mad Bomb" Captain Americas by Kirby
* Batman: Year Two

*****



Rob Clough

1. The Celestial Madonna Saga (The Avengers)
2. Avengers Forever
3. The Headmen stories (Defenders)
4. The Roger Stern/Marshall Rogers issues of Dr Strange
5. The Roger Stern/John Byrne issues of Captain America

*****



Grant Goggans

1. Shrinking Violet is replaced by a Durlan imposter.
2. The Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E.
3. The Manhunters come for Green Lantern for blowing up a planet.
4. Dr. Strange goes on the run.
5. Riot at Xavier's.

*****



Lou Copeland

1. Captain America: The Madbomb Saga - Jack Kirby
2. Captain Marvel & The Monster Society of Evil - Binder, Beck, & Co.
3. Miracleman: The Golden Age - Gaiman& Buckingham
4. Alan Moore & Alan Davis' Captain Britain arc
5. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight - Flyer by Chaykin & Kane

*****



Chris Noble

* New Teen Titans Vol.2 #1-5 (Terror of Trigon)
* Legion of Super Heroes #290-294 (Great Darkness Saga)
* New X-Men #114-116 (E is for Extinction)
* JLA- Rock of Ages
* Superman Vol. 1 #307-309 (the Superman as environmental terrorist/ Krypton is a lie story)

*****



Douglas Wolk

1. Zenith Book Three
2. 52
3. Millennium (with its crossovers, please)
4. Ultimate Spider-Man's Clone Saga
5. The Len Wein-written Deadman serial that jumped around a few titles

*****



Uriel A. Duran

1) The Great Darkness Saga
2) Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight
3) Captain America as The Captain
4) Batman: Ten Nights of the Beast
5) X-men: Age Of Apocalypse

*****



Fred Hembeck

1. Captain America defeats The Secret Empire, discovers the TRUE identity of their leader, and is so shocked, he abandons his star-spangled outfit and takes on the role of Nomad, the man without a country.
2. Batman, Hugo Strange, Silver St. Cloud, Boss Thorne, Deadshot, The Joker--yeah, THAT story.
3. Nick Fury and SHIELD vs. The Yellow Claw--which all turns out to be an elaborate chess game between Dr. Doom and one of his robots!! (I said it then, I'll say it now--"WHA?...")
4. The Defenders vs. The Headmen.
5. Supergirl vs. Bottle City of Kandor villainess, Lesla-Lar, in a story--Action Comics 278-285--that eventually leads up to Superman finally revealing his cousin's existence to the world (also personally notable as the very first serial I ever encountered reading comics).

*****



Jamie Coville

1. Avengers - Assault on Olympus (#281 - #285)
2. Spider-Man: Nothing can stop the Juggernaut
3. Avengers vs. X-men mini series.
4. Spider-Man vs. Wolverine: High Tide
5. Secret Wars

*****
*****
 
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