Top 5 Superhero comics

Doom Patrol
Thunderbolts
anything by Remender
anything by Si Spurrier
Superior Foes of Spider-Man

Johns GL
Hitman
Starman
DeMatteis Spectre
Levitz/Giffen LOSH

Morrison's Animal Man
DC The New Frontier
Green Arrow The Longbow Hunters + Grell's ongoing
Bendis' Daredevil
Simonson's Thor

Animal Man
Justice League International
Punisher Max
52
Do you count Lucifer? It takes place in the DC universe

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Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League
Frank Miller's Daredevil
Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four
Claremont's New Mutants
Levtiz/Giffen Legion of Superheroes

>>80263929
Frank Miller's Daredevil work is probably the pinnacle of the genre.

Hitman is probably next.

Then Garth Ennis' work on The Punisher.

Then any top tier Superman comic (especially All Star, the Geoff Johns run on Action Comics, and Superman Adventures).

Then any top tier Fantastic Four runs (read: the 60s era and the John Byrne run).

>>80266869
>Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four

Reminder that Lee had minimal input in the making of those comics.

>>80267164
On top of that you should also read Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Grant Morrison's JLA, Planetary (if that counts), Mark Waid's first Flash run, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing (if that counts), Steve Gerber's Man-Thing (if that counts, which admittedly it barely does), Steve Gerber's Foolkiller, Geoff Johns' JSA, Geoff Johns' Green Lantern, Peter David's Hulk, Greg Pak's Hulk, Giffen/DeMatties Justice League, and Batman Adventures volume 1 (including Mad Love, the Holiday Special, and the Annuals).

>>80267205
Reminder that this isn't true and Jim Steranko has debunked this myth.

>>80263929
Miracleman
Zenith
Supreme
Invincible
Astro City

>>80267356
Source?

Swamp-thing
Anything Moon knight
Deadpool marvel NOW
Superior Spiderman
Flash year one

Ever Read...
> Watchmen
> Thor - God of Thunder - God Butcher & God Bomb
> Silver Surfer - Requiem (1 of only 3 pieces of entertainment to make me cry as a adult)
> Kingdom Come
> Batwoman (Elegy & everything with Williams on art)
> Fear Itself (fuck you, the main book is a perfectly good Thor & Cap centric story)
> Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers/Infinity/Secret Wars & Spencer's Avengers World
> Bendis's Secret War
> John's & Reis's Aquaman
> Snyder's Court of Owls
> Snyder's Endgame

>>80269654
Oh also...
> Rucka's Punisher Run.

Best books I am Currently reading...
> Justice League - Darkseid War
> Martian Manhunter

>>80267205
Whatever level it was some input. Acting like Lee never did anything is just the other side of the coin to giving him credit for everything. Both are wrong

Morrison's Doom Patrol, Miller's Daredevil, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Batman Year One... I'm tempted to say Annihilation

Jenkins/lee's Inhumans
gerber's Man-thing
Nocenti's Inhumans
Hickman's ultimates
Moon knight volume 3

>>80263929
Animal Man
Johns GL
JLI
Grell's GA
Ostrander's Suicde Squad

Astro City
52
Multiversity
Top Ten
Dial H

>>80269409
JIM STERANKO, DUMBASS.

CAN YOU READ?

Patrician choices here, ignore most of the rest.

Kraven's Last Hunt
Born Again
Squadron Supreme
Inhumans
For the man who has everything


bonus: The superior foes of spiderman, hilarious and delivers better characterization and development that 99,9% of cape comics

>>80267492
>Zenith, Supreme, and Invincible
They are not big two comics OP asked for.

Superior Foes of Spider-Man
Geoff John's JSA
Immortal Iron Fist
Batman: Year One
Ennis' Punisher MAX

>>80273599

Ah shit, I really should have included Squadron Supreme on mine
Does Planetary count?

>>80263929
Moore's Swamp Thing
Miracleman
52 (weekly)
JLA
All-Star Superman

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>>80263929
Claremont X-men
Man without fear
Punisher Max
Nextwave
Remender Uncanny X-force

i'm a DC pleb so can't help with that.

So, since you're limiting it to Big 2 only, I'm going to do a top 5 for both, just because.

Marvel:
Miller's Daredevil
Simonson's Thor
Claremont's Uncanny X-Men
The Infinity Gauntlet
Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four

DC:
Simonson's Orion
Jack Kirby's Fourth World (original, not the Byrne series named that, although that's pretty good, too)
Final Crisis
Ellis/Millar's The Authority
Kingdom Come

It was actually kinda hard to leave Crisis On Infinite Earths and Planetary off that list. Hell, it was hard to do just 5 in general, considering that there are tons of great stories out there.

>>80269911
Saying he did nothing is more accurate than saying he was the sole creative force.

>>80274705
No it's not.

>>80263929
Morrison on Doom Patrol
Moore on Swamp Thing
Miller on Daredevil
Ostrander on Suicide Squad
O'Neil on Batman

The Multiversity
Final Crisis
Entire FF run by Hickman
Watchmen
Paradise Worlds

>>80273835
They are all non-Big Two cape stories, dumbass. That's the joke.

Daredevil by Nocenti, JRJR, And Williamson
The Shadow by Helfer and Baker
OMAC by Kirby with Royer and Berry
Spider-Man by Ditko with Lee and various inkers
The Batman Adventures Holiday Special by Dini, Timm, Murakami, Del Carmen, and others (sentimental pick but when I read it last year I was surprised at how well the mix of comedy and pathos was executed

Honorable mention goes to the Batman comics drawn by Frank Robbins in the 70s, especially the Russian Roulette issue.

>>80275177
>implying what publishers OP restricts to is the joke

>>80263929
In no particular order

>Uncanny Avengers
>Silver Surfer: Devolution
>Man-Thing (Volume 1, 1973)
>Batman Year One
>Fantastic 4 (2014)

>>80275193
I know what the joke is because I made that post.

>>80264181
>anything by Remender
He's good but not THAT good? Otherwise what are your Remender reccomendations?

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1 - Future Imperfect
2 - Marvel Knights: Sentry & Daredevil: End of Days
3 - Kraven's Last Hunt
4 - Miller Daredevil
5 - Infinity Gauntlet

Honorable Mentions:

Peter David Hulk Run
Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange: Triumph & Torment
Books of Doom
Birtrhight
Ditko Strange and Spidey
Kirby/Lee Fantastic Four
God Loves Man Kills
Moonshadow
Starstruck
Elektra: Assassin
Dreadstar
Byrne Supes and Fantastic Four
Busiek Thunderbolts
Sandman