I have several good to great condition comics featuring The INCREDIBLE HULK, THOR, HUMAN TORCH, The INVADERS etc.

Can anyone help me to know where there are real connoisseurs who would like to purchase them?

My collection includes several comics in sequence like HUMAN TORCH #’s 1 – 10.

1) Alan Grant/John Wagner on Judge Dredd. This writing duo used many great artists during their 8 year run on Judge Dredd for 2000AD magazine list Brian Bolland, Mike Mcmahon, Ron Smith, Carlos Ezquerra, Barry Kitson, Steve Dillon and many more. They managed to mix Dredds heroic and fascist bastard sides very well in classic tales like Block Mania, Apocalypse war, Graveyard shift, the Judge Child saga etc.
2) Alan Moore/Ian Gibson 3 books of Halo Jones for 2000AD. One of Moores earliest magnus opuses following a young girl from a future metropolis.
3) Pat Mills/Joe Colquhoun on their war story Charleys War which was published between 1979 and 1986 in Battle Magazine in the UK. Its set in the first world war and follows young Charlie Bourne from his enlistment through the battle of the Somme till the end of world war one and pulls no punches in showing the horror of trench warfare. Full of pathos and excellent gritty artwork, its one of the best war comics period.
4) Tom Tully/John Cooper on Johnny Red. Between 1979 and 1985 this writer/artist duo detailed the adventures of RAF pilot Johnny “Red” Redburn on the Russian front in Battle Magazine as the commander of the elite Falcons fighter squadron fighting against the german invaders ….and his russian commanders and the nkvd. Gripping and gritty war action.
5) Pat Mills/Simon Bisley on Slaine – The Horned God. Published in 1989/90 in 2000AD, this was the capstone of Mills saga of Celtic warrior Slaine where he would become High King of Ireland and defeat the fomorian and drune invaders. Absolutely beautiful painted bisley art matched with Mills note perfect script.

There would be many more I could pick out but I gotta go back to work now. No argument with Sandman and Claremont/Byrne finishing one/two in this all time list though, epic stuff!

Cockrum did not have THAT much involvement (he had involvement, but not to the point of co-plotting the book), nor did anyone else after Byrne until Jim Lee.

That’s what makes Claremont/Byrne such a special pairing – it wasn’t just writer/artist, it was co-writers with Byrne drawing the book, too.

And when we think about how great that run is – if we don’t spotlight Byrne’s contributions, they tend to get overlooked as just part of Claremont’s 17 year run, while this run was significantly different, specifically BECAUSE it was being co-written by Byrne.

But I personally never saw Bishop done well, even in the beginning, outside of Morrison’s “Murder in the Mansion” arc. I did kinda like the role he played in Messiah Complex though.

I put Shooter and Swan’s Legion on my list too. Doesn’t get the credit it deserves.

I don’t think Sin City is that great to be on the list, although I love almost everything else Miller has done.

Claremont and Lee had that great storyline about Bishop if I recall correctly. But Lee’s work on Batman with Hush was a lot better and that should have got a mention.

More like overweight patchouli smelling, medieval fair enthusiast goth girl.

Sandman wasn’t monthly at all. From Kindly Ones and up, the shedule was a total random mess.

I said X-Men would be # 1 and Sandman # 2. Close, but I got them switched around. Still happy with both.

Here’s MY Top 10 list of my personal runs I have gotten the most reading enjoyment from :

10. Geoff Johns’ JSA # 5-77, 81, Annual # 1, Justice Society of America # 1-current. Johns is a superstar for how he goes back and truly builds on the past in a respective yet innovative way that’s fresh, non-jarring and not insulting. The JSA is tied with my favorite team book ever with LSH and they finally after years or being treated as has-beens or having creative teams try to continue to write and draw them like it was still the Golden Age, were brought into the light with modern writing and art and lo and behold the people read it and it was good.

9. Claremont’s X-Men # 94 – 175. Despite different artists, Claremont put together great stories and built a franchise unto itself here with some of these artists’ best works ranging from Cockrum (yes both runs), Byrne, and Paul Smith. The momentum and magic deflated for me in retrospect after Paul Smith left and I could never get into it the same again, except for a couple of single issues by Barry Windsor-Smith.

8. Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing / Saga of the Swamp Thing # 20-45, Annual # 2; Swamp Thing 2nd series # 46-61, 63-64. This to me will always hold a very special place in my heart. It completely re-wrote the Swamp Thing character even better than the original Wein / Wrightson classics and made it better and so much edgier. Some of these issues sincerely mucked with my sense of being like the Fear Monkey. Bissette & Totleben’s art was as creepy and dark as the script and Moore’s exploration of the DCU through the backdoor here was awesome.

7. Frank Miller’s Daredevil / Daredevil # 165-191, 219, 226-233; Daredevil : The Man Without Fear # 1-5; Daredevil Love and War graphic novel. Some might doubt the artistic integrity of Frank Miller now, but back in the day, his work was the definitive version gospel truth Matt Murdock stories. They grabbed you and squeezed you with part Eisner, part Hill Street Blues, and all in your face action and psycho drama. No holds barred off the top rope Elektra, Bullseye, Kingpin, religion, sex, crime, drugs, psychodrama. Revolutionary.

6. Shooter’s Solar Man of the Atom # 1-15. When Shooter left Marvel he set up Valiant and for a while it looked like it was going to be the next Marvel main competitor. Physicist Phil Seleski tests a new type of fusion reactor, there was a problem, Seleski shuts it down, but is exposed to lethal levels of radiation in the process, giving him the ability to manipulate energy. With his newfound powers he’s determined to eliminate nuclear weapons, but the U.S. government has other plans. In confronting Solar, he loses control of his powers and inadvertently creates a black hole which pulls Earth inside of it. Solar then is split into two separate beings and it just gets better from there. Jim Shooter was at his very best writing here # 1-15 with art by Don Perlin, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Steve Ditko, among others. Sure there are nuclear / atomic heroes, but this run made Solar my favorite.

5. Chaykin’s American Flagg ! # 1-12. Howard Chaykin, one of the very few writer / artist superstars I will buy practically any work of, performed his magnum opus here with his own creation, American Flagg ! It’s the story of the U.S. in the year 2031 after the government collapses and relocates to Mars in a loose alliance with the mega-corporations. The USSR collapsed from Islamic insurrection and Brazil and Africa are the new superpowers left on planet Earth. The US government, and mega-corporations, working with some existing USSR factions on the moon, form The Plex, which governs planet Earth from the moon and Mars utilizing their police / military force, the Plexus Rangers. Enter Reuben Flagg, ex-porn star and television personality who goes from being corporate pawn to undermining the very forces he’s supposed to be working for in sympathy with the opposition forces that are fighting back against the corrupt and perverse Plex. Chaykin interwove sex, politics, fetish, race, religion and sophistication into one gigantic overarcing story that is actually a set of self sustaining smaller story arcs that build into the larger, more satisfying 12 issue story. One noticeable absence is the lack of the Omnipotent Editorial Boxes (“meanwhile’) and thought balloons. This is the norm now but IIRC Chaykin broke new ground pushing in that direction with this series. This was also the first series that I can remember that was so multi-layered and complex that I couldn’t begin to fully grasp what was going on until I re-read it. About the third time it all came together and gave a very complex yet elegant storyline that was to be savored on many levels. Very ahead of it’s time and worth every positive review you may have ever heard or read.

4. Starlin’s Dreadstar # 1-40, Annual # 1. The first segment of this series, the pre-cursor if you will, was originally serialized in the late great Epic Illustrated magazine. I specifically bought all the issues just for Metamorphosis Odyssey. As much as I love Dreadstar, putting it in my all-time # 4 series, you needn’t bother with Metamorphosis Odyssey. I was let down by it and the very little you would need to know from that series is briefly recapped in the Dreadstar series. Vanth Dreadstar, sole survivor of the Milky Way galaxy from the previous Metamorphosis Odyssey storyline, just wants peace and guiet until he’s dragged into a conflict between the two superpowers of the galaxy, the Monarchy and the Instrumentality represented by an evil Pope-type character, one of the best villains in comic book history IMO, the Lord High Papal. Dreadstar is joined by fellow rebels Syzygy Darklock (a cyborg mystic), female telepath Willow, Oedi (pronounced Eddy as in the famous Oedipal complex) the cat-man, and Skeevo the freebooter. If some themes sound familiar here as in some of Starlin’s previous work, and look similar, don’t be surprised. I take it with a grain of salt as Starlin owns this characters and isn’t hamstrung like he was with Warlock or Captain Marvel in what he could or couldn’t do with them. This was the first ongoing comic book series that Epic produced and it was a smash hit. It reminded me of the best parts of Star Wars and was great. Starlin later left after the title moved from Epic to Chicago based First Comics (the same guys that published American Flagg!), and eventually novice writer Peter David took over. His run was good too, but just not as good as the original by series creator Jim Starlin.

3. Mantlo’s Micronauts 1st series # 1-58, Annual # 1-2. I’m one of the very few that had this on my Top 10 list I’m sure and most certainly wouldn’t have had it this high, but when I think of fun series that just left me hanging off the edge of my chair breathless, this is the series where every single issue was great or even greater. Again, a sci-fi epic, but this time about a band of rebels on the run from an evil tyrant and all-time great comic book villain, Baron Karza. The rip of the fabric of space from their Microverse, and land smack dab in the middle of the Marvel U, crossing paths with Marvel mainstays like the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Swamp Thing, the Psycho-Man, HYDRA, Plant Man, the Molecule Man, the Fixer, Mentallo, SHIELD, Nightmare, and Dr. Doom. This run fell under the creator Bill Mantlo, the series writer of the entire first series. Mantlo is one of the great overlooked Marvel writers of the 70′s. His Hulk was solid as was his other toy-based property, Rom Spaceknight. Artists included the legendary Michael Golden on the first 11 issues, followed by some great work by Pat Broderick, Gil Kane, Jackson “Butch” Guice, Kelley Jones, and even Steve Ditko. The toys were really cool back in the day but this series was so gripping from Commander Rann, the Time Travelers, Princess Mari (Marionette), Biotron, Microtron, Acroyear, Bug, and later on, Devil.

2. Tom & Mary Bierbaum’s Legion of Super-Heroes / Legion of Super-Heroes 4th Series # 1-50, Annual # 1-4. As I’ve said before, LSH & JSA are my two all-time fav group titles overall, beating out JLA, FF, Avengers, New Teen Titans, Ultimates, X-Men, Authority, Stormwatch, Justice Machine, etc. This is the infamous 5YG run that husband / wife hardcore Legion fans Tom & Mary Bierbaum co-wrote along with recently recognized genius Keith Giffen who had previously co-plotted the latter stories along with writer Paul Levitz of the v3 Baxter version of the LSH. The team has been disbanded and life is horrible without the Legion. Tons of new characters are introduced and slowly we put together what happened to whom, how, and when from the original group. To say it was revolutionary is an understatement. I didn’t like it at first but kept reading and it suddenly clicked for me. This was a dark Legion, more adult, and we eventually are introduced to another more traditionally based version of the team called SW6. They were a group of clones of the original LSH in a Dominator laboratory after they have taken over the Earth. If you loved either Legion, you got it, as the clones were very Silver Age-style and spun off into their own sister mag, Legionnaires, and the 5YL Legion stayed on in the regular title. It was a great time to be a Legion fan ! Eventually the Legionnaires mag starring the “Archie Legion” folded and the standard mag got the infamous reboot with Zero Hour. It was a heck of a run and I hope we’ll see this version of the Legion post-Final Crisis in the new DCU.

1. Levitz’ Legion of Super-Heroes / Legion of Super-Heroes 2nd Series # 281-282,284-313, Annual # 1-3; 3rd Series # 1-43, 45-63, Annual # 1-4. Much as I loved the 5YL Legion, I loved Paul Levitz’ classic version directly before it that he wrote with the run starting with Pat Broderick art (good) and then Keith Giffen coming on with his strong Kirby-influenced pencils and just blowing the lid off everything right away with their now classic Great Darkness Saga introducing Darkseid into the 31st century. From there it was impossible to put the title down. It was so successful it graduated as one of the two most popular DC titles that went Baxter and reprinted the stories later on newsprint versions later. I loved the first annual with Computo and the introduction of the new Invisible Kid. Giffen left and was followed by nice art from Steve LIghtle and later Greg LaRocque. Levitz gave every character a distinct personality and some time in the spotlight. Superboy is retconned out of the Legion tapestry due to COIE, which later caused lots of continuity confusion, though my love for the Legion really amped up without Young Superman’s presence in the book and being able to focus more on the Legion and developing them as characters. Great read if you like the Legion.

Also, I meant to put the dialogue quoted from my favorite issue of the Moench run in italics to more clearly set it off from my own words before and after. I must have forgotten to add those italics tags before posting.