Comic books should be good is an excellent blog, and greg burgas has pretty good taste in comics except when he disagrees with me. This page provides lists of bestselling comic book series to date. Jim aparos batman is the coolest batman to ever grace comic book pages. Amazons most sold charts rank books according to the number of copies sold and preordered through, amazon books stores, and books read through digital subscription programs once a customer has read a certain percentage roughly the length of a free reading sample. Snyder and capullos run on batman, which kicked off the new 52. Top 20 best superman comics of all time scifinow the. Creativity flourished, and we saw the the best that comics could be, from mainstream to independent, the 2000s were full of quality. Under the radars top 25 comic books and graphic novels of.
Comic book herald top comic books runs of all time. Twice over the past 8 years, brian cronin has done a massive poll for the best 100 runs of all time, and recently completed his 2012 edition. Top 20 comic book artists ever best, most ranked user. In the terms of comic book superheroes, thats like stepping out into a busy. This is the run that defined this decade for dc comics as snyder and capullo took on the companys biggest franchise and defined what it is moving forward. In an effort to highlight the most well received current comic book series, weve set up a real time list of the best comic book series of the past three months. But after encountering pacifist philosophies secretly encoded in a romance novel, they run off. First appearing in the sunday comics way back in 1897, the katzenjammers are still kicking around in syndication today. Here are times picks for the 10 best fiction books of the 2010s, in order of publication year. Each week, comic book writer chris sims answers the. Rare 80year collection of every dc comic book going to. The 20 greatest comic book movies of all time, ranked maxim.
Yet for those willing to look beyond marvel and dc, theres an even more exciting revolution taking part, as pop and art comics alike are undergoing a renaissance. I know were in 20 now, but id like to ask you guys what are your favorite comic books runs dc and marvel between 2000 and 2010. On the brink of extinction, comics clawed their way back to the surface, and we got ten years of comic book renaissance. Make reading fun with this list of top 18 comic books for kids. January 29 kevin panetta and savanna ganucheaus heartmelting diagram of baking and unexpected love is a dizzying piece of fiction. I get to experience worlds i know ill never get to in real life. Lutes has been working on this for 20 years and finished it in 2018, and you. Also read times list of the best nonfiction books of the decade. Hans and fritz were mischievous twins who caused momma katzenjammer and the captain all sorts of grief. This page will deal with the most valuable of all, golden age comic books. And best of all, i get to share it with other people. Its the kind of comic people will still be reading for pleasure 20 years from.
I get to read great stories and look at some beautiful art. Csbg reveals your pick for the greatest comic book run of alltime. Top 100 most valuable comic books of the golden age 19381956 the 100 most valuable comic books from each age. Of all the notable comic book runs that dc comics had from a ton of great talent there is none that are better than scott snyder and greg capullos batman run in the 2010s. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts.
Of the top 25 best comic runs of the decade, only one of them isnt from marvel or. The 20 best graphic novels of the decade 20002009 paste. The longest running comic of dc comics vertigo imprint, hellblazer was a horror comic book series which began print in march 1993. Marvel comics june 2019 solicitation analysismarch 20, 2019in bunker bulletins. Morning glories inside the top flippin 20 books of the decade. The 80s, typically recalled as a plastic, bloated, expensive but resilient decade for fashion, television etc. As fun as the 70s were, this era for comics i would argue is the most dated of any decade. This ones probably going to stay at the top, though. The 10 best comic books, by popular vote, of the 2010s to date. The best comics of the decade 2010 2019 saga, mister miracle, uncanny xforce and many more. Hickmans xbook run may be on our next best of the decade list 10 years from now. Remember to check out our previous installments before diving in here, and enjoy. As another decade dawns for the comic book industry, it only makes sense to look back on the best comics of the past ten years.
We will say that the golden age begins in 1938 and ends in 1956, when the. One of the best and worst things about comics books is the fact that they. Popular best comic book runs of all time books showing 150 of 104 marvel masterworks. He drew and contributed to the creation of as varied of comic books as fantastic four, captain america, the incredible hulk, the mighty thor, the avengers, xmen, black panther, the eternals, kamandi, challengers of the unknown, the demon, and o. Comic book diehards have differing and strong opinions on which are the best. The series are listed according to the highest sales estimates as reported in reliable sources. The 20 greatest comic book movies of all time, ranked. This list includes comic books that have sold at least 100 million copies. Comics in the 1990s may get a bit of a bad rap sometimes, but we have ten great moments from that comic book era.
Panther stretches comic book tension to its most affecting extremes, and attempting to. To be eligible for this list, a series must have had at least two issues published within the past three months. It includes japanese manga, american comic books, and european comics. Marvel five fabulous decades of the worlds greatest comics is a wellpresented but incomplete volume that i would highly recommend for those interested in the history of pulp fiction and comic books, especially marvel comics. Valiant books have, since their return early this decade, been pretty tightly. And for more great reads, see our picks for the best comic book series of 2019, the best plot twists of 2019 and the 25 greatest. Legendary comic book guru scott mcclouds first original graphic novel in over a decade is as stunning as it is massive. With that in mind, we bring you the top 10 comic strips of alltime, from each decade.
That said, for longer runs like scott snyders batman or criminal, i tried to. Welcome to comic book heralds best comic books of the 2010s decade. Csbg nears the end of the countdown as we continue to count down your picks for the greatest comic book creator runs of alltime. I tried to pick my three favorite comics from each decade. I liked mark waids run on this book as well, but then it started to go downhill. As another decade dawns for the comic book industry, it only makes sense to look back on the. The top 20 comic book stories of the 1980s berkeley place. From saga to batman, ew picks the 15 best comic books of the. The 10 best fiction books of the 2010s decade time.
Part 1, 10081 december 7, 2015 by losercityboss leave a comment people tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. Though the inhuman king has been a fixture of marvels comics for decades. Along the way, the company has produced some of the best comic books ever, with many of them receiving high praise from. Beautifully published by first second books a publisher youd do well to familiarize yourself with if you have not previously heard of it, the 500page tome is a stirring exploration of art, life, and death. The final installment of geekrexs top 50 comics of the 2010s. As the movie industry cannibalizes superheroes one intellectual property at a time, its oftentimes easy to forget that comic books are an entire medium, not a single genre.
You might be surprised what winds up on our list of the best comics of the 2010s. By 1982 it was already consistently in the top 3 in sales. Welcome back to the geekrex 50 best comics of the 2010s list. Weve read a ton of great comics in the last 10 years, and we picked out.
With all of the comic book properties invading tv and movies over the last decade, its easy to get overwhelmed. Stories like knightfall and no mans land and writers like doug moench, alan grant and chuck dixon definitely make this the best book of the decade. These lists are presented alphabetically, and contain a mix of graphic novels, ongoing series, comic strips, and single issues. Today on variant, arris counts down our list of the top 10 marvel stories of all time. There are many epic comic book collections out there, but few have garnered intrigue and infamy quite like the ian levine collectionalleged to be one of the few complete collections of dcs.
The 100 best comics of the first half of the 2010s. Watchmen by alan moore and dave gibbons became one of the most celebrated mainstream comic books in history and earned a place on time magazines list of the 100 greatest english language novels of the 20th century. Heres the full master list of your choices for the top 100 comic book runs of all time. A reddit for fans of comic books, graphic novels, and digital comics. Janni dakkar, the daughter of captain nemo, haunts the 20th. Frank millers daredevil, denny oneil and neal adams batman, chris claremont and john byrnes xmen, alan moores swamp thing, and walt simonsons thor are held in the highest regard of comic. The result was four months of alternatereality comic books. To make it more interesting, i avoided picking the same series in multiple decades. In this video we take a look at the all time worst comic books of all time. Clubs regular comics panel team tries to touch on all the above, via our picks for the 25 best comics of the decade and the five best archival projects.