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Amazing Spider-Man and Detective Comics.

You CANNOT do X-MEN. It has not been published "basically non-stop".

Action Comics, Daredevil

Superman, Fantastic Four

You CANNOT do X-MEN. It has not been published “basically non-stop”.

Sure, just with reprints for a time!

But yeah, it'd be better off to not have the X-Men in there.

Action Comics, Amazing Spider-Man

Batman, Daredevil.

Avengers and Justice League.

Spidey and 'Tec would be the easiest/most obvious, but FF and Action are also acceptable. Justice League would be neat for something that went through some very different periods of both content and sales figures if that has anything to do with whatever you're doing.

@BRIAN:

You've agreed with me already, you diplomat you, but I just want to add that even the X-MEN reprint schedule was inconsistent. Bi-monthly publishing is acceptable, don't get me wrong, but there was a 7-mo gap in the late #60s, and of course a 4-mo gap before #94.

Captain America and Green Lantern

Wonder Woman and Archie

Oops, I forgot you wanted only DC & Marvel. Stupid brain.

Wonder Woman and Amazing Spider-Man

Daredevil, Batman

Action Comics and Uncanny X-Men (yes, it's debatable considering your one month hiatus here and there or your line-wide book hiatus for the sake of a crossover like 'AoA' or 'Onslaught Saga,' but if you were to include the 'AoA' mini series and the 'Onslaught' tie-in issues as part of the run, I'd say it counts).

Wonder Woman and The Fantastic Four.

Justice League and Avengers.

Hulk and Flash. A couple of B listers who are almost A list

There may have been a gap between Flash v.1 and Flash v2.

I figure first one to ten of each is what I'll go with!

Justice League & Fantastic Four.

FF and Batman

DC really isn't as easy as it seems. Action, Detective, Superman & Batman seem like the easy choices, but the last 3 were bi-monthly for long periods, and the other one was weekly for a time. If you just mean regularly published as you said, any of those would work.

Marvel is easy- Fantastic Four has been monthly for almost the whole period with few interruptions.

Captain America and Detective Comics

There may have been a gap between Flash v.1 and Flash v2.

Yeah, there was about a year and a half gap. Flash v.1 wrapped up halfway through Crisis on Infinite Earths, and vol.2 didn't launch until maybe a year after Crisis finished. Wally spent 10-15 issues as Flash in New Teen Titans v.2, and his solo book spun out of the 6-part Legends mini.

(Then there was a ~4-month gap during 2006 between the "end" of vol.2 and the OYL launch of Flash: The Fastest Man Alive.)

Just for fun, I'd suggest the Superboy/Superboy and Legion/Legion of Superheroes run and Avengers.

Avengers and JLA - they have lots of characters for whatever you're thinking about.

I believe Spider-man went on a 1 month hiatus before being rebooted with John Byrne in the late 90's. Same with the Superman after the funeral story but before Reign of Superman. I don't know if a small gap like that will matter, but I thought I'd put it out there.

Batman & Captain America or JLA & Avengers.

Captain America & Batman

Thor, Wonder Woman

I thought about it, and the whole "40+ years" thing will be too boring, so I'll just do the last 30, and JLA and Avengers seem to fit as well as anything, so that's what I'll do!

The results should be up soon (seeing as how it's just 30 years, it should be really quick to do)!!

@ Arnie C:

Hulk may be a B-lister in the Marvel Universe, and in comic sales, but Hulk is one of the two most famous Marvel characters as far as Joe on the street is concerned. Even Grandma knows who about Spider-Man and the Hulk. The same cannot be said for Iron Man, the FF or even Cap.

x-men and batman

Batman; Daredevil

Detective; Captain America

Iron Man and Detective

Iron Man and Action Comics

I'd say Justice League and Fantastic Four mainly because FF was created as a reaction to JL and that makes any direct comparison more interesting. Of course Avengers is more of a direct comparison...

Action Comics and Avengers.

batman thor

Hulk smash!

& Batman or something.....

To all those nominating THOR, I remind that the Thunder God's book went on hiatus for the entire year of "Heroes Reborn" while his book was changed back to JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY. The second THOR volume didn't start until well after the rest of the "Heroes Return" titles started up.

As for my own nominations, two that many others have already suggested: Avengers and Justice League

As for my own nominations, two that many others have already suggested: Avengers and Justice League

Yep, those are the ones that I went with.

Check the post above this one to see how the experiment turned out!

Avengers and Batman