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Top 25 BA Marvel Keys (No DC)
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Lazyboy

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Combining/alphabetizing/adding to previous posts:

2001: A Space Odyssey 8 (Machine Man)
Amazing Spider-Man 101 (Morbius)
Amazing Spider-Man 129 (Punisher)
Amazing Spider-Man 149 (Clone)
Amazing Spider-Man 194 (Black Cat)
Astonishing Tales 25 (Deathlok)
Avengers 195/196 (Taskmaster)
Captain America 183 (Gamecock) JUST CHECKING ON WHO'S PAYING ATTENTION!
Captain Britain 1 (Brian Braddock, Roma)
Captain Britain 8 (Betsy Braddock)
Eternals 1 (Eternals, Deviants, Celestials)
Giant-Size X-Men 1 (Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Thunderbird, Illyana Rasputin)
Hero For Hire 1 (Luke Cage)
Incredible Hulk 180/181 (Wolverine)
Iron Fist 14 (Sabretooth)
Iron Man 55 (Thanos, Drax, Mentor, Eros, Kronos)
Marvel Feature 1 (Defenders)
Marvel Premiere 15 (Iron Fist)
Marvel Preview 4 (Star-Lord)
Marvel Preview 7 (Rocket? Raccoon)
Marvel Spotlight 2 (Werewolf By Night)
Marvel Spotlight 5 (Ghost Rider)
Marvel Spotlight 32 (Spider-Woman)
Ms. Marvel 16/17 (Mystique)
Nova 1 (duh)
Savage Tales 1 (Man-Thing)
She-Hulk 1 (duh)
Special Marvel Edition 15 (Shang-Chi)
Tomb of Dracula 10 (Blade)
Werewolf By Night 32 (Moon Knight)
X-Men 101 (Phoenix)
X-Men 107 (Starjammers, Imperial Guard, M'Kraan Crystal, Shi'ar Empire?)
X-Men 120/121 (Alpha Flight)
X-Men 129 (Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost)
X-Men 130 (Dazzler)

Amazing Adventures 11 (Beast further mutates, into his well-known form)
Amazing Spider-Man 121-122 (deaths of Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin)
Amazing Spider-Man 136 (Harry Osborn becomes the Green Goblin)
Marvel Premiere 1 (Him becomes Adam Warlock)
Ms. Marvel 1 (Carol becomes Ms. Marvel)
X-Men 94 (formation of new team)
X-Men 137 (death of Phoenix)

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Lazyboy

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10 hours ago, Gatsby77 said:

What about GI Joe # 21?

It's a key Marvel Copper Age book by any measure, but you'd disavow it because it was a cartoon first?

It's important not just for the first appearance of Storm Shadow but also for its unique (for the time) storytelling style.

I never said they weren't keys, it's just way, way, way, way, way, way hm... way, way down the list.

It might have been unique as a full issue (I'm not entirely sure about that), but it was definitely not unique as a story.

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7 hours ago, Lazyboy said:

Combining/alphabetizing/adding to previous posts:

2001: A Space Odyssey 8 (Machine Man)
Amazing Spider-Man 101 (Morbius)
Amazing Spider-Man 129 (Punisher)
Amazing Spider-Man 149 (Clone)
Amazing Spider-Man 194 (Black Cat)
Astonishing Tales 25 (Deathlok)
Avengers 195/196 (Taskmaster)
Captain America 183 (Gamecock) JUST CHECKING ON WHO'S PAYING ATTENTION!
Captain Britain 1 (Brian Braddock, Roma)
Captain Britain 8 (Betsy Braddock)
Eternals 1 (Eternals, Deviants, Celestials)
Giant-Size X-Men 1 (Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Thunderbird, Illyana Rasputin)
Hero For Hire 1 (Luke Cage)
Incredible Hulk 180/181 (Wolverine)
Iron Fist 14 (Sabretooth)
Iron Man 55 (Thanos, Drax, Mentor, Eros, Kronos)
Marvel Feature 1 (Defenders)
Marvel Spotlight 2 (Werewolf By Night)
Marvel Spotlight 5 (Ghost Rider)
Marvel Spotlight 32 (Spider-Woman)
Marvel Premiere 15 (Iron Fist)
Marvel Preview 4 (Star-Lord)
Marvel Preview 7 (Rocket? Raccoon)
Ms. Marvel 16/17 (Mystique)
Nova 1 (duh)
Savage Tales 1 (Man-Thing)
She-Hulk 1 (duh)
Special Marvel Edition 15 (Shang-Chi)
Tomb of Dracula 10 (Blade)
Werewolf By Night 32 (Moon Knight)
X-Men 101 (Phoenix)
X-Men 107 (Starjammers, Imperial Guard, M'Kraan Crystal, Shi'ar Empire?)
X-Men 120/121 (Alpha Flight)
X-Men 129 (Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost)
X-Men 130 (Dazzler)

Amazing Adventures 11 (Beast further mutates, into his well-known form)
Amazing Spider-Man 121-122 (deaths of Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin)
Amazing Spider-Man 135 (Harry Osborn becomes the Green Goblin)
Marvel Premiere 1 (Him becomes Adam Warlock)
Ms. Marvel 1 (Carol becomes Ms. Marvel)
X-Men 94 (formation of new team)
X-Men 137 (death of Phoenix)

Other than the first Howard the Duck, that’s a pretty comprehensive list! Now, we need to get it down to 25 and rank them. :)

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33 minutes ago, piper said:

Other than the first Howard the Duck, that’s a pretty comprehensive list! Now, we need to get it down to 25 and rank them. :)

Thanks for quoting that. I earlier saw Cap 183 and thought wth?, I need to look this up, but didn’t have a chance to pursue it further.  Now I know @Lazyboy was just having fun with us. :D

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4 hours ago, steveinthecity said:

Thanks for quoting that. I earlier saw Cap 183 and thought wth?, I need to look this up, but didn’t have a chance to pursue it further.  Now I know @Lazyboy was just having fun with us. :D

Ditto with ASM 135 - which is the 2nd full Punisher. First new Green Goblin is 136.

Also - do folks really care about the Starjammers?

If there's ever an Alpha Flight film appearance, 109 will take off (first Guardian).

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2 hours ago, Gatsby77 said:

Ditto with ASM 135 - which is the 2nd full Punisher. First new Green Goblin is 136.

Yup, that's a typo.

2 hours ago, Gatsby77 said:

Also - do folks really care about the Starjammers?

and the Imperial Guard and the M'Kraan Crystal and, at least arguably, the Shi'ar Empire? It still probably won't be very high on a ranked list, but it has a lot going on.

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7 hours ago, steveinthecity said:

Thanks for quoting that. I earlier saw Cap 183 and thought wth?, I need to look this up, but didn’t have a chance to pursue it further.  Now I know @Lazyboy was just having fun with us. :D

lol

I looked up his history a while back when I was reading Cap 371. As a bonus, 183 is also one of the Frank Robbins issues!

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5 hours ago, Lazyboy said:

Yup, that's a typo.

and the Imperial Guard and the M'Kraan Crystal and, at least arguably, the Shi'ar Empire? It still probably won't be very high on a ranked list, but it has a lot going on.

My point stands. I don't think folks care about the Shi'ar or the Starjammers.

Maybe things have changed in the last 20 years of continuity, but I've read every X-Men issue from 94-310 or so -- they've never struck me as a big deal. Plus, I think the book is hurt by not (yet) having Byrne on the art.

What's the long-term play here? That they'll eventually appear in a movie - even one of the Captain Marvel-style cosmic ones?

I doubt it.

I mean, their most famous appearance is in the Dark Phoenix Saga, which we've now seen adapted to film *twice* with nary a mention of them in either.

To me, their second-best storyline was circa X-Men 273-277 - but that was mostly because you had Jim Lee in his prime doing the art.

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On 6/12/2020 at 1:11 PM, piper said:

LOL (that will teach me to do this at lunchtime)

I sold my IM55 way too early, when it was like a $25 - 50 book.  I made good money on WWBN 32 CGC 9.2, but could have held it about 6 months longer.

It is back to the price I paid you for it now based on latest GPA sale. lol

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1 hour ago, kimik said:

It is back to the price I paid you for it now based on latest GPA sale. lol

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Going to throw in a couple more ideas.

 

Conan #1 - I know some people consider this the start of the Bronze Age

Conan #23 - first Red Sonja

Ghost Rider #1 - 1st appearance of Son of Satan, plus it's the first issue

Night Nurse #1 - not really a first appearance, but still. 

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1 hour ago, Crimebuster said:

Going to throw in a couple more ideas.

 

Conan #1 - I know some people consider this the start of the Bronze Age

Conan #23 - first Red Sonja

Ghost Rider #1 - 1st appearance of Son of Satan, plus it's the first issue

Night Nurse #1 - not really a first appearance, but still. 

Good call - I forgot that a Son of Satan TV series has apparently already been shot and is due out on Hulu later this year.

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