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Top Five Comic Book Tigers!
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with the top comic book tigers (comic BOOK, mind you, so no Hobbes!). Enjoy!
Top Five “Great” Exclamations By Superman on Covers!
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a list inspired by the recent Top Five “Great Scott” Exclamations on Challengers of the Unknown Covers. That got me thinking to all the times Superman would exclaim “Great ____!” on the covers [...]
Top Five “Near Miss” Relationships Between Avengers Teammates
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at times in the Avengers where two teammates ALMOST started dating but didn’t quite get there. Enjoy!
Top Five “Great Scott” Exclamations on Challengers of the Unknown Covers
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at one of the most fun aspects of old issues of Challengers of the Unknown – the crazy exclamations the characters would often shout on the covers! I am going to [...]
Top Five Comic Characters That Share Names With MLB Teams
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at the top comic book characters whose codename is the same as the (singular) name of a Major League Baseball team!! Enjoy!
Top Five Characters Who Debuted In the Pages of the Avengers
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at the top five characters to make their debut in the pages of the Avengers (there are a number of great characters who first showed up in the Avengers)! Enjoy!
Top Five Hulk vs. Thing Covers
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at the best covers featuring the Thing versus the Hulk! Enjoy!
Top Five Most Famous “Second Billing” Introductions!
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a list in honor of today’s cool comic, Action Comics #252. That issue is the debut of Metallo, but his introduction clearly gets second-billing to the OTHER character introduced that issue, Supergirl. So [...]
Top Five Members of the JLU Who Should Also Be Members of the “Real” JLA
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at the Justice League Unlimited. A number of characters were on the JLU that were never members of the “real” Justice League. I’m not counting the classic members of the Justice [...]
Top Five Mike Zeck G.I. Joe Covers
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with the great Mike Zeck, who did dozens of brilliant covers for G.I. Joe comics. Thanks to reader Keil for the suggestion! This was by far the hardest list so far to narrow it [...]
Top Five Bloodlines Characters
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with the contemporaries of the 1993 Marvel Annuals, the 1993 DC Annuals, which created new characters for their Bloodlines crossover (aliens were attacking humans, and every once in awhile would awaken powers in the [...]
Top Five #300 Issues
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at the top #300 issues. Here are the top five… Enjoy!
Top Five Characters Whose Real Names Are Way Too “On Point”
Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at characters whose real names are a bit TOO “on point” when it comes to their powers or future undertakings. Here are the top five… Enjoy!
Top Five Thor Covers by Walt Simonson
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at the five best covers by Walter Simonson, who did a NUMBER of tremendous covers during his run on Thor. There are a bunch of covers that I did NOT put [...]
Top Five Titans Cover Appearances by Characters
- by Brian Cronin
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Top Five Month (check here to see an archive of all the top five lists featured so far this month) continues with a look at which five characters have appeared on the most Titans covers in the forty-four year history of Titans comic books. I mean ALL the different Titans comics. I mean, Teen Titans [...]





