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Matt Reed
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Yes. This is a free for-all!  Submit your favorite comics with a cover date of 1980-89.  Runs.  Single issues. Doesn’t matter. What did you love to read in the 80’s or, if you’re too young, have since discovered were written in the 80s that you love?  
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Oohh, this will be an initial post, but I suspect lots of addendums through
the course of the next few weeks.

JB’s FF - which was a revelation of plot, art and characterisation
Alan Moore/Davis’ Captain Britain
X-Men
Wolverine mini series
Walt Simonson’s Thor
Camelot 3000 (because Bolland got to cut loose)
DeMattis/Giffen Justice League (just for the humour)
Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing
New Teen Titans
Frank Miller’s Daredevil
Elfquest (upto the end of Kings of the Broken Wheel)
Dreadstar (upto the first defeat of the Papal)
The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
Nemesis (in 2000 A.D.)
Marvelman in Warrior


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I've only got a small sample to choose from if I'm picking from comics picked up off the rack. Which is how I'm going to do it;

Favorite storyline- Thanks to the cover date prerequisite, that pushed the beginning of the X-Men vs The Hellfire Club into the eighties. Panel after panel of goodness.

Marvel- Daredevil #166. The story of poor, deluded  Melvin Potter the Gladiator.

DC- Brave & the Bold #182. With an Earth-2 Robin and Batwoman. Touching at times, supernatural other times. Against the one and only Dr. Hugo Strange. 
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Perez and Wolfman on New Teen Titans and Titans in the Baxter was my absolute fave (closely followed by X-Men). 
Dug Moon Knight a lot especially as Sienkewicz got weirder/ better?
Cap in the late '80s was my jam, too. 
I was pretty obsessed with the 'Nam, especially during Golden's run.
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I'm just going to start with anything by JB.  I was one of the Faithful 50 - or was it 550(k).  

The less popular titles I loved were "Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!" which was the first book I ever collected.  

" 'Mazing Man" - it was so funny and well-written, of course it wasn't going to last.

"Atari Force" - especially when Jose Luis Garcia Lopez was drawing it.




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My favorite era of comics so there are multiple examples but my favorite
comic book ever of all time is AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 229. By Stern/ JRjr.
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That's right when I started reading comics so the meat of those Marvel books - Claremont and JR JR on X-Men, JB on FF, Stern and Buscema on Avengers, the teams doing the Spidey books, Simonson's Thor, Gruenwald's Cap, Miller on DD ... those are my core comic memories. 
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Jason K Fulton
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JB's FF - but realistically, when I look back at my favorite comics from the 80s, almost all of them involve JB.
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Rodrigo castellanos
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Pfff... so many. 

I'll try to limit the list to runs I've actually read at the time (or early 90s but published originally in the 80s), otherwise it'd run forever.

Superman by JB
New Teen Titans by Wolfman & Perez
Batman Year One by Miller & Mazzuchelli
Swamp Thing by Moore & Bissette/Totleben
Animal Man by Morrison & Truog
The Question by O'Neill & Cowan
Green Lantern by Wein & Gibbons
Wonder Woman by George Perez
Suicide Squad by Ostrander & McDonell (big time favorite!)
Vigilante by Wolfman & various pencillers (maybe not that great in retrospect, but loved it as a kid)

And some assorted Marvel stuff (X-Men by Claremont & Smith, some Simonson Thor).

Major favorites I could only get my hands on many years later like Miller's Daredevil and Moore's Marvelman, or Claremont & JB's X-Men run.




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Pretty much anything by Roger Stern, especially Spider-Man, Avengers, and Dr. Strange!
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Damn you, Steven! 

You taken the words right outta my fingertips....😁

Stern's stuff is....well....Stern Stuff!

In addition to that, here are my favorite 80s run:

Our host's run on the FANTASTIC FOUR, ALPHA FLIGHT,  UNCANNY X-MEN, SUPERMAN, MAN OF STEEL, ACTION COMICS,  THE THING, and  INCREDIBLE HULK

Roy Thomas' ALL-STAR SQUADRON and the first 13 issues of INFINITY INC (THE Generations Saga storyline)  I've always been a sucker for DC's Earth-2 heroes (pre CRISIS of course). Plus, it gave us Jerry Ordway. His art style was made for those books.

Perez & Wolfman's NEW TEEN TITANS. It sounds cliche but George and Marv changed the game for future talent jumping from Marvel to DC with this series. It was presented in a way I've wanted DC books to be, well written and good/great art. This was the series that started the "Marvelization" of DC and got me to purchase DC books on a monthly basis.

WORLD'S FINEST - It was the only place to find the Marvel Family in the early 80s.

WEST COAST AVENGERS & SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK - JB's return to Marvel. What a smile those books put on my 23 year old face.

JUSTICE LEAGUE -- I will say this: J. M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen run was funny

LEGION OF SUPERHEROES - I liked Giffen's version of the adult Legion. 

Bill Mantlo's run on the INCREDIBLE HULK.  

Uncle Walt's THOR.


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DC- Brave & the Bold #182. With an Earth-2 Robin and Batwoman. Touching at times, supernatural other times. Against the one and only Dr. Hugo Strange. 

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I love that issue!
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