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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

46. Martian Manhunter

47. Matt Fraction

48. Iron Fist

49. Neal Adams

50. Catwoman

51. J.M. DeMatteis

52. Nick Fury

53. Greg Rucka

54. Flash (Barry Allen)

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!)

63. Iron Man (A Top 25 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

73. Carmine Infantino

74. Doctor Strange

75. Black Widow

76. Gail Simone

77. Elseworlds

78. Joe Kubert

79. G.I. Joe

80. Superman (A Top 75 list!)

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

92. Pre-Crisis Superboy

22 Comments

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.

No Alex Ross?

No Alex Ross?

Maybe someday!

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.

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)!

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).

Where are two of the greatest comics legends, the Lennon and McCartney of the genre Claremont and Byrne?

When are you going to throw up some X-men Characters? Please :D

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

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!

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!

I will be seeking tips on how to improve the volume of comments without any help blog, exactly how would you achieve accomplishing this?

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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if Spiderman, Superman and Iron man have lists that exceed 10 issues why isn’t the Batman list longer?

Batman’s just not all that popular.

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