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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 19:39:51 GMT -5
I also have more Batman than any other character/franchise, despite Spider-Man being my favorite super-hero, and Conan starring in my all-time favorite comics. Batman's just had the largest quantity of enjoyable issues to his credit, even if his comics rarely reached the heights Roy reached with Conan fairly consistently.
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Post by berkley on Aug 18, 2020 20:46:19 GMT -5
I'm not sure you can say something is more favoured beccause of volume - your favourite might be a charcter that doesn't have many appearancees or a series that didn't last long. As we found in the thread about B-list characters, or whatever term was used, for many people here their favourite characters mostly fall into that group, however you want to define it.
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Post by earl on Aug 18, 2020 21:19:14 GMT -5
Oh by the inverse, there are definitely comics I wished had way more issues. Way more of them, I suppose.
There has to be a few comic fans out there that somehow have read every or nearly every Superman or Batman story.
I've read all the Spider-man comics up to the late 80s at one point or another. Don't know any of the 90s stuff at all.
I've read the whole series of some of the long running 80s indies, some I have not re-read in years and need to.
Dreadstar
Nexus
GrimJack
Jon Sable Freelance
Newer series of the last decade or so...
The Sixth Gun
The Boys
East of West
Black Science (although I got a few issues left)
Stray Bullets (still got a few to go in new series to catch up)
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Post by earl on Aug 18, 2020 21:20:38 GMT -5
I know back as a teenager, one series that was a big deal when I finally got it done and read them all was The Warlord. There were a couple in there that were hard to find.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 19, 2020 2:07:42 GMT -5
We are comic book collectors here, so in essence you might as well be saying ALL. I know by saying "favorite" you wish to see more specifically our choices, but the real truth of that just means an incredibly long listing of many of the same series over and over from most of us with minor variations to list. It is rather difficult to answer accurately as many times we continue to try and follow a series due to our like/love of characters.
Favorites change or come and go with our mood and desire. A list from A to Z would be exhaustive. I mean, I have collected and read each one you have already mentioned in your posts already and much more over my 40 plus years of comic book purchasing. And I have to think they are a favorite or else I wouldn't have ever bothered buying them or following them in the 1st place.
It is like asking someone with children to choose who is their favorite? You love them all from Archie and Avengers to Warlord and X-Men and everything inbetween.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 19, 2020 12:22:47 GMT -5
I'm not sure what I've read the most of volume-wise. I did try to think about it. They are all comic books. I've read a lot of comic books.  |
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 19, 2020 12:53:38 GMT -5
Judging by my actual paper-and-ink collection, it's fairly obvious I'm a Batman guy. I have long runs of the Silver and Bronze Age Batman, Detective, World's Finest, and Justice League of America, a complete run of the team-up issues of The Brave and the Bold, near-complete runs of Batman Family, Batman and the Outsiders, and New Teen Titans (which I count among the Bat-titles due to Robin's presence), the Untold Legend of the Batman mini-series, and the 2-issue run of Man-Bat. I also have complete runs of Batman Adventures, Batman and Robin Adventures, and several other animation-style series, standalone books like The Killing Joke and Batman vs. Incredible Hulk, several Elseworld interpretations of Batman, the Waid/Perez/Ordway Brave & Bold, and most of the Morrison JLA run. And there's all the Earth-Two stuff featuring Batman, Robin, and The Huntress with or without the JSA, Infinity Inc., or All-Star Squadron. At least a quarter of my comic book collection features Batman, a Batman spin-off, or a team to which he or Robin belongs.
And none of the above factors in all the Archives and Showcases featuring Batman on my bookshelves. Or the collections of the '40s Batman newspaper strip. Or the coffee table book on the animated show. Or my DVDs of the '60s TV series. Or...
Cei-U! I summon the obsession! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 19, 2020 12:56:24 GMT -5
I have far more comics with Batman than any other character. By a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 13:02:48 GMT -5
For me, it used to be Avengers, I read the entire run 1-402 several times over, plus the Busiek run in Vol. 3. And as a kid, Marvel Triple Action with Avengers reprints was the only book I bought as often as Avengers itself. However, I have sold off all my Silver Age Marvels, and haven't really revisited classic Avengers in years (I still have some in trades that don't get read and access to it all via Marvel Unlimited). If I were to go by what I currently own the most of, it would be Conan. Complete runs of SSOC, CTB, the 90s Marvel Conan stuff and most of the early Dark Horse material (Conan, Conan the Cimmerian, and all the early minis featuring Conan).
-M
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Post by berkley on Aug 19, 2020 15:49:42 GMT -5
I would say my biggest stacks include:
The FF - pretty complete from around #51-#110, a good number of scattered issues from #111-#200, and collections covering the 1st 50 issues
The Avengers - complete from approx. #40-#175, collections for the earlier stuff, scattered issues after #175
Tomb of Dracula - almost the complete run, less 1 issue
MoKF - complete run except the last few issues after Moench left
Thor - ~#120-#200, #270-#301, scattered issues in between
Daredevil - almost everything from :#20 - # #120, collections for the earlier stuff, about half of Miller's run
Conan the Barbarian - almost everything up to Roy Thomas's departure
Warren mags - probably around 3/4 of the full runs of Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella
Love and Rockets and related - pretty much everything Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez have done, especially the L&R related stuff
Steve Gerber - pretty much everything he's done that I can find; I skipped a few DC things, like his Superman story
Alan Moore - a good chunk of evrything, might be missing a few 2000AD things though I've picked up a lot of those too in collected form
Jack Kirby solo - most his DC and Marvel series from the 70s, and the Pacific stuff later
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 19, 2020 22:20:04 GMT -5
Definitely Iron Man for me... between his regular series, Avengers, Avengers West Coast, and Force Works, it's like 4 long boxes worth.
I'm not sure who'd be 2nd... maybe Nightwing (if you include the various Titans books he's in), maybe Thor (since he's in alot of the Avengers ones as well)
I do have just about all of Kyle Rayner's pre new-52 appearances, but I don't think that amounts to as much.
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Post by earl on Aug 19, 2020 22:32:01 GMT -5
There has to be at least a handful of comic fans that have read say all of Superman Vol. 1 even if with scanned copies.
Members of the board do work on comics that are really only available in original form more than some I would figure.
I'd love to read Sgt Rock from the start, but I know good well that I will never have the original issues nor will it probably ever really be reprinted.
Batman and Detective are tough, even if you take they have gotten further on reprinting the series, there is a huge gap through the 50s to when the first silver age comics are reprinted. That said, there is quite a few different compilations of Batman through the years.
Bronze age Batman is one that if you want to read them all, you are going to have to have quite a few of the comics as it looks like they will never be able to reprint them in any complete order.
DC giant issues in general seem to have a bit of fans, especially the 100 PAGE GIANTS.
I thought it would be funny for DC to do compilations of characters in a big hardcover omnibus and call them 1000 PAGE GIANTS and kind of steal that type of 70s look with a new cover played off a classic one. I bet if done right, especially with a bit of expository material, they would be really popular.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 20, 2020 2:45:22 GMT -5
Yeah, both DC and Marvel should follow the Archie model with their digest sized 500 and 1000 page Giant collections. Archie does a mixture in collecting their classic stories, so in each book you get different decades of stories to enjoy. DC could make their collections filled with individual volumes of westerns, war, horror, science fiction/fantasy and romance from the silver and golden ages.
A fantasy dream perhaps, but how cool it could be.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 20, 2020 4:23:36 GMT -5
Yeah, both DC and Marvel should follow the Archie model with their digest sized 500 and 1000 page Giant collections. Archie does a mixture in collecting their classic stories, so in each book you get different decades of stories to enjoy. DC could make their collections filled with individual volumes of westerns, war, horror, science fiction/fantasy and romance from the silver and golden ages. A fantasy dream perhaps, but how cool it could be. Man, I'd love it if they started doing something like that. But yeah, it'll probably never happen, given that the recent Marvel digest line (which I absolutely loved) was cancelled after only eight issues. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 20, 2020 7:52:25 GMT -5
Yeah, both DC and Marvel should follow the Archie model with their digest sized 500 and 1000 page Giant collections. Archie does a mixture in collecting their classic stories, so in each book you get different decades of stories to enjoy. DC could make their collections filled with individual volumes of westerns, war, horror, science fiction/fantasy and romance from the silver and golden ages. A fantasy dream perhaps, but how cool it could be. Interesting, big books of these runs like the way manga does it. I imagine it’s far cheaper to just make digital available than to gamble that many fans will actually buy these volumes. |
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