I considered both of them . . . and deliberately chose not to mention them on my ballot!

On the other hand,. I was seriously tempted to mention one or the other of the Batman vs. the Mutant Leader fights from DKR, but the problem was that I felt his first and second matches with the guy work better as a package deal in storytelling, and I wasn't going to use two slots on my ballot for both of them, and according to the rules, I had to specify a particular battle, not just ongoing animosty between characters which manifested itself in multiple battles.

Also there needs to be more votes for Wonder Woman vs Egg Fu, even with out seeing the ballots, I know that one is going to get passed over.

Brian, is there any chance you could do a poll of CSBG readers, (A) how old they are, and (B) How long they've been reading comics?

I think it would be really interesting (even if a few people purposefully try to skew the stats...)

I'd love to see the results of this one all the way down to the 'any battle that got more than one vote or a single first-place vote' granularity...

It looks like this poll is really going to be a battle between newer and older readers, even more than favorite runs was. I anxiously await the results!

I know what you mean. Back in the "favorite runs" days, I believe I commented that a bunch of mine were stuff which has never been conveniently collected in trade paperbacks, and happened long enough ago (the 1980s, for instance) that newer fans simply wouldn't ever have been exposed to it in the first place.

On a similar note: I've just submitted my ballot for 10 favorite fights, and looking back on it now, I think about half of them have been collected in TPB at some point. (Maybe 6 out of 10 if we count black-and-white reprint volumes as being TPBs despite a certain absence of color on the pages.) I suspect the others are highly unlikely to get many (if any!) other votes from my fellow fans, because they all date back at least 14 years or more, the 80s and early-to-mid 90s, and so they've had plenty of time to "fade into limbo" without being reprinted regularly for the education of those who missed them the first time around!

The final fight between Marvel heroes and the House of Magnus blew me away. It's my favorite.

I also have Ultimate Pym and Ultimate Janet and the fight between X-Men and the Children of the Vault.

Just because a battle is classic doesn't mean it's a top 25 fight.

What about New Warriors vs. Nitro, Cobalt Man, Speedfreek and Coldheart? It ended with a bang.