Marvel title with most valuable #1 and fewest valuable #2 to infinity? 1 1

[musicmeta]

What about Captain America - Marvel Silver Age/Bronze..How long a gap between #100 and the next key issue after 117?  101 doesn't seem to be worth anywhere near 100.

[OuterboroGuy]

1 hour ago, Gatsby77 said:

Jonah Hex lasted more issues than Transformers and it’s # 1 & “nobody cares.”

ditto Warlord and Master of King Fu - long 100+ issue runs that nobody cares about outside the first issue.

I have so many issues of Warlord . . . I should re-read them, there must have been a reason I bought so many of them 35 years ago!

[shadroch]

4 minutes ago, OuterboroGuy said:

I have so many issues of Warlord . . . I should re-read them, there must have been a reason I bought so many of them 35 years ago!

I re-read the first twenty or so issues about two years ago. I really liked the art but the story didn't hold up well. I remember sticking with that title to the bitter end, and it was really bad. 

[shadroch]

Dr Strange. 

On the other side of the street, I'd nominate The Legion of Super-Heroes.  They've been around 62 years and outside of  Adventure 247, there is crickets. I picked up their 2nd app. yesterday for under $100.  The first Super-Hero team of the Silver Age and they get little respect. 

[Gatsby77]

18 minutes ago, shadroch said:

Dr Strange. 

On the other side of the street, I'd nominate The Legion of Super-Heroes.  They've been around 62 years and outside of  Adventure 247, there is crickets. I picked up their 2nd app. yesterday for under $100.  The first Super-Hero team of the Silver Age and they get little respect. 

Yeah - in fact, the Silver/Bronze Age Adventure Comics run is probably deader than the Action Comics run of that era.

Does Adventure Comics # 250 - 400 have any keys whatsoever?

Okay - first Zod at # 283.

Any others?

[musicmeta]

53 minutes ago, OuterboroGuy said:

I have so many issues of Warlord . . . I should re-read them, there must have been a reason I bought so many of them 35 years ago!

Really like Warlord.   Used to have the entire run.  Now, I'm slowly acquiring the run again.  Mike Grell art is awesome.  Like Jon Sable a lot as well.  Now, here's a set you can pick up dirt cheap.

[Bludriver]

The OP asked about Marvel, if you start bringing in DC, it is pretty much every title other than Batman/Detective over the past 60 years.

[Gatsby77]

21 minutes ago, Bludriver said:

The OP asked about Marvel, if you start bringing in DC, it is pretty much every title other than Batman/Detective over the past 60 years.

Nice try.

Silver / Bronze Age Green Lantern alone has more (and more significant) keys than a bunch of Marvel titles. Including:

1, 7, 40, 59, 76, 87.

Sure - a lot of this is a natural effect of their being multiple major Green Lanterns, hence multiple first appearance / keys, but beyond that, the Adams/O'Neill run of 76-89 is easily as significant as the BWS run in Conan 1-24 or the Miller Daredevil run in 158-191.

Compare that run to say...iron Man 1-100, Daredevil 1-100 or even Ghost Rider 1-81 or Tomb of Dracula 1-70 -- Green Lantern wins.

And yes - I'm saying that Green Lantern 87 has stronger long-term potential than Tomb of Dracula 10.

[maxon]

Two titles I routinely fly by in the bins are Sgt. Fury and World's Finest. Conan after 24 as well.

[KPR Comics]

Star Wars

ROM

GI Joe

Marvel Team-up

Strange Tales (if you're using 110 as the 1)

Hell, even Avengers.

etc.

On a relative basis, most of the Marvel titles are pretty much on par given the OPs premise.

Edited April 13, 2021 by KPR Comics

[Mercury Man]

Shogun Warriors 

ROM 

 

 

[Namtak]

9 hours ago, Motor City Rob said:

Daredevil is a great example. Arguably nothing after #1 is significant until #168. That's a whole lotta nothing for over a decade. This other example isn't exactly what you were asking but Incredible Hulk doesn't have much after issue #1 until you get to #180. Yes, issues 2-6 are still valuable, but they pale in comparison to #1.  That's 178 issues (including TTA) of blah. Your DD example is still better.

Hey wow,you missed a few good one,new costume ,the owl,gladiator,stilltman bullseye was a big hit too,just to mention a few

[october]

50 minutes ago, maxon said:

Two titles I routinely fly by in the bins are Sgt. Fury and World's Finest. Conan after 24 as well.

World's Finest has decades and decades of dead run issues. It's pretty remarkable.

[Buzzetta]

48 minutes ago, KPR Comics said:

Star Wars

ROM

GI Joe

Marvel Team-up

Strange Tales (if you're using 110 as the 1)

Hell, even Avengers.

etc.

On a relative basis, most of the Marvel titles are pretty much on par given the OPs premise.

G.I Joe 21 in a 9.8 has commanded more over the last couple of decades than a copy of G.I. Joe 1 in 9.8

Go Collect (I did not renew my GPA subscription) reports #21 at $2800 and #1 at $2000.

Edited April 13, 2021 by Buzzetta

[KPR Comics]

11 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

G.I Joe 21 in a 9.8 has commanded more over the last couple of decades than a copy of G.I. Joe 1 in 9.8

Go Collect (I did not renew my GPA subscription) reports #21 at $2800 and #1 at $2000.

That sounds right.  My bad.  I stand by the rest.

[ADAMANTIUM]

I always think of wolverine 1988

Maybe issue #1 then not really again till maybe 145?

If that?

[ADAMANTIUM]

1 minute ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I always think of wolverine 1988

Maybe issue #1 then not really again till maybe 145?

If that?

I mean out of like 300 issues it has #1 at. $100+ then dwindles sorely till maybe the nabisco at 145, then nothing else, if we were picky we might say the early wolvie hulk cover or wolvie sabertooth or the #75 hologram error,

But that's like 5 minor minor keys out of at least 3-400 issues

[cortown71]

How bout the defenders? Anything besides the 10 cover? The whole run has always been cheap. As a young reader in the 80s it was one of my first titles I looked forward to each month.

[kav]

2 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

G.I Joe 21 in a 9.8 has commanded more over the last couple of decades than a copy of G.I. Joe 1 in 9.8

Go Collect (I did not renew my GPA subscription) reports #21 at $2800 and #1 at $2000.

you and your GI Joe stuff.

[the blob]

12 hours ago, Motor City Rob said:

Daredevil is a great example. Arguably nothing after #1 is significant until #168. That's a whole lotta nothing for over a decade. This other example isn't exactly what you were asking but Incredible Hulk doesn't have much after issue #1 until you get to #180. Yes, issues 2-6 are still valuable, but they pale in comparison to #1.  That's 178 issues (including TTA) of blah. Your DD example is still better.

131 158.. I guess the red costume