Comments on: Comics Should Be Good Top 50 Countdown! - #3

By: Inconspicuous

Inconspicuous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:45:59 +0000

I'm just going to throw this out as a great issue, though obviously not important in the same way.

Impulse #3 is remembered as the best issue of a great run by Mark Wade and Humberto Ramos, though mostly remembered for its terrificly humourous story. I still remembered the total glee I felt reading that issue and the excitement I felt. I'm not normally one for re-reading a comic but I did read that one again after I finished. It was amazingly good!

Props on the list, btw. It's interesting to see all of the choices!

By: Jbird

Jbird — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:31:35 +0000

#4 is Avengers #4. Don't act the fool.

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:19:20 +0000

With all due respect to We3 and grant Morrison...All Star Comics #3 is the better choice. The JSA simply are more well known. Maybe if they make a movie about We3 like with Wanted, that could change, but ASC #3 is easily the best known issue. Doc Ock may be a more well known character, especially after the second Spiderman movie, but how many people remember the actual issue number? I always thought he debuted in #5 or #6...

By: Mycroft

Mycroft — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:24:23 +0000

Love & Rockets #3: Beto's first story set in Palomar (first half of "Heartbreak Soup).

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:33:55 +0000

Hey!

New Gods #3!!

Introducing the one and only dreaded Black Racer, the uh living embodiment of new godly death, racing through the cosmos on (cough) cosmic skis, navigating with cosmic ski um poles and oh um well, OK, the JSA, fine.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:18:43 +0000

Sea Guy #3!
Sea Guy bucks the system, without the system realising!
It was better than We3 and we all know it.

By: Random Stranger

Random Stranger — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:45:47 +0000

"#4 is a battle royale between SHOWCASE #4 and Capâ€™s return in AVENGERS #4. Iâ€™d plump for Barry Allenâ€™s first appearance myself, but the Avengers comic is a great issue. Itâ€™s amazing how much plot Lee and Kirby can get into 22 pages without it feeling cramped. Should be interesting to see what Brian chooses."

Fantastic Four #4 puts in a good showing on that too. Besides being the return of Namor it's the moment when I think Lee and Kirby hit their first groove that lasts until around issue #20. I suspect Avengers or Showcase will walk with it but FF isn't an unreasonable choice either.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:33:01 +0000

Batman #3 featured Cat-Woman's 2nd appearance but her first in a mask.

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:34:54 +0000

If we're drafting Brian to extend this thing, it needs to go all the way out to #247, at least. (But seriously, I'd rather see Judging books by their Covers catch up the DC books and return to regularity than even going through 51-100...)

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:15:58 +0000

WHO-HOO!

...wisenheimer...

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PTOR

By: buttler

buttler — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:47:17 +0000

Don't give up faith, PTOR. This Top 50 Countdown goes to 169!

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:28:34 +0000

OK, how about if the list went as high as # 169... then THIS would HAVE to win:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=21938&zoom=4

Doctor Strange # 169.
His FIRST solo issue of his own title (essentially Doc # 1).

AND my all-time favorite comic book COVER - EVER.

But, Noooo... this puny list ends at # 50.
lame.

I kid. I kid.
It's been a great article/column all the way through.

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PTOR

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:24:56 +0000

Graeme,

Hey, man.
You can't fault a guy for TRYING!

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PTOR

By: buttler

buttler — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:59:36 +0000

Hmm, birth of the entire Silver Age vs. the return of one of Marvel's most iconic characters? You're right, Sam, it's a surprisingly tough call.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:20:23 +0000

#4 is a battle royale between SHOWCASE #4 and Cap's return in AVENGERS #4. I'd plump for Barry Allen's first appearance myself, but the Avengers comic is a great issue. It's amazing how much plot Lee and Kirby can get into 22 pages without it feeling cramped. Should be interesting to see what Brian chooses.

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:58:54 +0000

Omega Men #3 was the first appearance of Lobo, which ought to be worth at least an honorable mention. Legion of Super=Heroes Annual #3 (v2 series) was 'The Curse', the epilogue to the Great Darkness Saga that revealed Validus's origins. And Ambush Bug #3 was probably the most memorable issue of his original series, being the one where the Bug investigates the fates of the characters intentionally left out of 'who's who'...

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:15:27 +0000

As an issue itself, All-Star 3 is kind of uneven. There's great Bernard Baily art on the Hourman and Spectre stories (and they're really entertaining) and a fun Hawkman story with art by Sheldon Moldoff in his best Alex Raymond-swiping mode. But the Dr. Fate story is...odd (as so many of them were). The Flash story isn't brilliant and the Green Lantern story has terrible art. The Sandman story has mediocre art but a great story. But the JSA framing device is great fun, and the Red Tornado cameo is cute.

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:09:30 +0000

Good luck with those #4s P-Tor. I don't think they stand a chance against the most obvious #4, but hey...

By: buttler

buttler — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:33:46 +0000

Hey, what about the introduction of the Ringmaster in Hulk, Scarecrow in World's Finest, Kanjar Ro in Justice League and Sersi in The Eternals? Or Captain America Comics #3, which maybe contained the first published comic book work by Stan Lee (a text filler story)?

In other words, I got nothin'. The first all-star super-team clearly takes the cake.

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:07:01 +0000

Just so long as # 4 is...
Doctor Strange ; Master of the Mystic Arts # 4.

In it, he emerges from the realm of unreality within the Orb of Agamotto, fights DEATH (because he' s bleeding out from a fatal stab wound by SILVER DAGGER) and after a valiant battle... he overcomes any apprehension or fear of death and allows himself to DIE.

He is then granted a form of IMMORTALITY by the ANCIENT ONE, who reveals to him, that this was the first major test of his gaining the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme, and he would now no longer age or die (of natural causes). The only way for him to perish would be in battle.

Otherwise, he could live for many hundreds of years (as did the Ancient One), if not longer.

With a story by Steve Englehart & art by Frank Brunner, it is one of the best Doc stories ever put to paper.
With an AWESOME cover.
Check it!

http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=27826

In MY mind, whenever someone mentions # 4 of anything, I think of that issue...
AND... (an almost tie with)...
Man-Thing v2 # 4.
But that's for personal reasons.
It's not all that great a story.

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PTOR