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The Greatest Stories Ever Told Master List
You voted for your personal favorite stories starring the following characters or written/drawn by the following creators.
Here were your picks for each of the following….
1. Batman
2. Peter David.
3. Punisher.
4. Steve Englehart.
5. Darkseid.
6. Ed Brubaker.
7. Black Panther.
8. George Perez.
9. Joker.
10. Warren Ellis.
11. Thor.
12. Geoff Johns.
13. Beast Boy/Changeling.
14. Chuck Dixon.
15. Magneto.
16. Len Wein.
17. Supergirl.
18. Rogue.
19. Keith Giffen.
20. Marv Wolfman.
21. Flash (Wally West).
22. Roger Stern.
23. Kingpin.
24. Peter Milligan.
25. Green Arrow.
26. Mark Millar.
27. Hawkeye.
28. Kurt Busiek.
29. John Constantine.
30. Mark Waid.
Here is Mark Waid’s personal list for his choices for Mark Waid’s Greatest Stories Ever Told.
31. The Thing
32. Daredevil
33. Joe Casey
34. Robin/Red Robin (Tim Drake)
35. Mike Mignola
36. Loki
37. John Ostrander
38. Deathstroke the Terminator
39. Steve Gerber
40. She-Hulk
41. Jason Aaron
42. Lois Lane
43. Scott Lobdell
44. Luke Cage
45. Gardner Fox
47. Matt Fraction
48. Iron Fist
49. Neal Adams
50. Catwoman
51. J.M. DeMatteis
52. Nick Fury
53. Greg Rucka
55. Bill Mantlo
56. Silver Surfer
57. Dan Slott
Here is Dan Slott’s personal list for his choices for the Greatest Dan Slott Stories Ever Told.
58. Aquaman
59. Roy Thomas
60. Doctor Doom
61. Garth Ennis
62. Spider-Man (A Top 50 list!)
64. Jim Lee
65. What If…?
66. Brian K. Vaughan
67. Lex Luthor
68. Tom DeFalco
69. Barbara Gordon
70. Scott Snyder
71. Storm
72. Jim Starlin
74. Doctor Strange
75. Black Widow
76. Gail Simone
77. Elseworlds
78. Joe Kubert
79. G.I. Joe
81. John Buscema
82. Hank Pym
83. Jeph Loeb
84. Kitty Pryde
85. Brian Wood
86. Ghost Rider
87. Bill Sienkiewicz
88. Thanos
89. Denny O’Neil
90. Two-Face
91. Alex Ross






22 Comments
Victor
December 31, 2011 at 11:18 am
I absolutely love this. I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time. It would be interesting to see a list like this devoted to artists.
David in SLC
December 31, 2011 at 1:42 pm
No Alex Ross?
Brian Cronin
December 31, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Maybe someday!
Brian Cronin
December 31, 2011 at 2:05 pm
George Perez, Neal Adams and Mike Mignola are on the list! Plus Keith Giffen (just to name a couple off of the top of my head)!
icemanjeff79
January 1, 2012 at 11:28 am
Brian, if you ever get around to it, would you count the original superhero X-Factor and the Havok-Polaris-Madrox X-Factor/X-Factor Investigations as two differnet entities or just one? I’d say two (or possibly three even).
Frank
January 2, 2012 at 6:41 am
Where are two of the greatest comics legends, the Lennon and McCartney of the genre Claremont and Byrne?
Nick
July 13, 2012 at 2:20 pm
When are you going to throw up some X-men Characters? Please
Brian Cronin
July 13, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Well, CBR did a Top 50 X-Men list back in 2010 that I did commentary for for each character. Would you like me to re-post those? I guess I could update the bios to make them current.
joe the poor speller
February 27, 2013 at 2:24 am
hey brian, it’s time we have another ‘the greatest stories ever told’ month, don’t you think?? lex luthor, wasp, black widow, black canary, doctor strange, ghost rider, matt fraction, kevin maguire, jim lee, doug moench, john byrne… there’s plenty of great ones waiting. and why not one of the heavy hitters? so far, only batman, flash and thor were featured. wonder woman would be nice, as would be hulk, iron man, wolverine and fantastic four
Brian Cronin
February 27, 2013 at 6:35 am
We’re actually a lot closer than you might think, Joe. 23 more followers on Twitter in the next two days and you’ll have one for March.
More likely it will have to wait for April.
joe the poor speller
February 27, 2013 at 1:06 pm
wow, now that’s the right incentive to create a twitter!
joe the poor speller
March 1, 2013 at 12:32 am
so, what will be, brian? march or april? i did my part!
Brian Cronin
March 1, 2013 at 1:08 am
Six followers shy, Joe! It is over 6,000 now, though, so April!
joe the poor speller
March 1, 2013 at 1:47 am
aaaaaw! you sure the 6,000 wasn’t before midnight? :p
anyway, I know it will be worth the wait! specially if you do use some of the characters/creators I mentioned some posts above! :p
joe the poor speller
March 9, 2013 at 1:54 pm
brian, iron man is turning 50 this year, as we all know. will he be getting, as a gift, a spot in the (gracefully) upcoming third ‘the greatest stories ever told’ month? it could well be a top 25-30. come on, good old shellhead deserves it!
technology
April 9, 2013 at 9:15 am
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John King
April 13, 2013 at 4:00 pm
So 5 of Joe’s suggestions so far (Iron Man, Jim Lee, Dr Strange, Black Widow, Lex Luthor) 11 to go
joe the poor speller
April 17, 2013 at 2:05 pm
john, if we get at least john byrne, ghost rider and wonder woman, it’s good enough to me
Pedro Bouça
May 7, 2013 at 4:43 am
After the G.I. Joe list, we need a Transformers one!
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Vishal
May 13, 2013 at 3:38 pm
if Spiderman, Superman and Iron man have lists that exceed 10 issues why isn’t the Batman list longer?
buttler
May 13, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Batman’s just not all that popular.