# Fave DC or Marvel comics that don't get mentioned often **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664 "2017-03-21T00:48:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/1 "2017-03-21T00:48:11Z")
I’ll throw a few out: The end of Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol run. It genuinely felt like anything could happen. And it did! The Candlemaker was scary as \*\*\*\*, The Chief, and the near solo issue of Crazy Jane. (One of my fave DC characters) The Death of Superboy issue in LSH was very nice. Jim Shooter’s Korvac Saga in Avengers. And finally…Frank Miller’s limited series Elektra: Assasin doesn’t seem to be talked about a lot. No real protagonist at all, just evil and those who don’t mind doing evil to stop others. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/2 "2017-03-21T01:03:56Z")
'Mazing Man? A couple years ago there was [a BRILLIANT Jimmy Olsen special](http://www.dccomics.com/comics/jimmy-olsen-2011/jimmy-olsen-1). College-age aliens were coming to earth for a spring break party…which would end up destroying the earth. Jimmy had to dissuade them. The writing was Whedonesque. (The art was good, too.) One of the single best comics one-shots ever, and too few people know about it. I liked Dakota North a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/3 "2017-03-21T01:09:38Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > 'Mazing Man? > > A couple years ago there was [a BRILLIANT Jimmy Olsen special](http://www.dccomics.com/comics/jimmy-olsen-2011/jimmy-olsen-1). College-age aliens were coming to earth for a spring break party…which would end up destroying the earth. Jimmy had to dissuade them. > > The writing was Whedonesque. (The art was good, too.) One of the single best comics one-shots ever, and too few people know about it. > > I liked Dakota North a lot. Speaking of one shots…[The Spider-Man vs. Wolverine one-shot](http://marvel.com/comics/issue/41003/spider-man_vs_wolverine_1987_1) is great. Lots of trope breaking and fanboy stuff. Such as Hobgoblin getting taken out like a punk (Yes i know everyone hated it and it was retconned. I loved the randomness of it). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/4 "2017-03-21T01:18:25Z")
I realizes she catches a certain amount of flak, but I liked _Dazzler_ a lot. She had an interesting power that wasn’t wildly destructive, she found creative uses for it and still managed to have a somewhat normal life, and when it turns out she had nearly god-level power levels, she handled it pretty well. Plus, she got to eat The Claw. There’s no coming back from that, sound-boy. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/5 "2017-03-21T01:20:59Z")
Does Slott’s She-Hulk count? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/6 "2017-03-21T01:28:15Z")
[The Heckler.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_(comics)) A six-issue limited (due to poor sales) run written and inked by Keith Giffen and Tom and Mary Birnbaum in the early 90s. By far the strangest superhero comic ever written this side of _Powerhouse Pepper_. Chock full of weird characters (and not just villains), slapstick comedy (one villain was obviously based on the Roadrunner as he invented fiendish deathtraps that always backfired), and a healthy dose of bizarre. The Heckler bounced around Delta City, his only power, his superhuman ability to wisecrack villains into submission. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/7 "2017-03-21T01:30:49Z")
the second Superman/Spiderman team-up, with Doctor Doom and the Parasite as the villains. And Marvel’s old “What If” series. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/8 "2017-03-21T01:45:17Z")
Fred Hembeck. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/9 "2017-03-21T01:54:08Z")
When people mention GI Joe they think either the toys or the cartoon, but the original Marvel comics by Larry Hama were the real gem. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/10 "2017-03-21T02:02:13Z")
I loved [What The?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_The--%3F!) and the [Great Lakes Avengers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Avengers). Garth Ennis wrote a short series about _The Shadow_ called [The Fires of Creation](https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Vol-Fires-Creation/dp/1606903616). I thought it was fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/11 "2017-03-21T05:23:26Z")
Ethilrist: > [@](#): > > There’s no coming back from that, sound-boy. Wanna bet? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/12 "2017-03-21T05:28:19Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > When people mention GI Joe they think either the toys or the cartoon, but the original Marvel comics by Larry Hama were the real gem. He also wrote the file cards that came on the back packaging of all the action figures. There’s a Kickstarter going right now - I think it’s still got a week or two left on it - for a Larry Hama action figure in the style of the GI Joe figures. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/13 "2017-03-21T08:54:45Z")
I had a great fondness for Quasar, the Wendell Vaughan version that is. I’ve got the entire run of his stand alone title stashed in storage. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/14 "2017-03-21T09:28:29Z")
This is about as obscure as you can get: Thriller - [Thriller (revisited): Burn the Oracle - World Comic Book Review](http://www.worldcomicbookreview.com/index.php/2016/03/17/burn-the-oracle/) In Thriller, published in 1983, writer Robert Loren Fleming predicted Islamism, the media as a tool of terrorism, a black US president, skin grafts for burns victims, and machines which could be controlled by paraplegics’ brain activity. And as the article in the link says, DC publicly humiliated him and sacked him for being too highbrow. I also liked Wasteland, written by John and Kim Ostrander, which was innovative horror pre-dating Vertigo Comics. ---
**Author:** ![CosmicManiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CosmicManiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CosmicManiac)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/15 "2017-03-21T09:45:45Z")
I really liked The New 52’s "Darkseid War’, between the Anti-Monitor and Darkseid, by the amazing Geoff Johns with awesome drawings and art by Jason Fabok and Anderson. It was truly amazing stuff, especially with Darkseid’s death, and then rebirth. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Pork-Chop_Express)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/16 "2017-03-21T09:56:33Z")
Hitman That one-off rooftop scene with Supes still gets me. 🙂 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman\_(DC\_Comics)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_(DC_Comics)) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/17 "2017-03-21T11:56:32Z")
I don’t know if it “doesn’t get mentioned often”, and it’s kind of old now, but I really loved the four-issue run of Phil Foglio’s take on the 1960 DC comic **Angel and the Ape** that ran in 1991. He managed to actually make it coherent and funny, and brought in the unfunny _Inferior Five_ as well, and to tie it all into DC continuity. He later tried to do the same thing with DC’s 1960s series _Stanley and his Monster_, but it wasn’t as good. Although it did provide the first mention I saw of The Heterodyne Brothers, and an inkling of Agatha Heterodyne. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/18 "2017-03-21T11:59:59Z")
Foglio’s Stanley and his Monster was AMAZING! He did a great job of sending up the “dark side” of the DCU. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/19 "2017-03-21T12:29:42Z")
I liked DC’s “Blue Devil” [Blue Devil - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Devil) - light-hearted stories about a stunt man merged with his devil costume. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664/20 "2017-03-21T13:45:53Z")
I always enjoyed [Slapstick](http://marvel.com/characters/2137/slapstick). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-dc-or-marvel-comics-that-dont-get-mentioned-often/782664.md?page=2)