S/D: Overlooked Runs

Dan Vado on Justice League (DOI) ???

OH DOI (or - No Gleek, No Cred):

Yet another Justice League spinoff book was begun in January 1995, with the publication of the oh-so-‘90s-sounding EXTREME JUSTICE, from writer Dan Vado and artist Marc Campos.

The idea here was that Captain Atom, frustrated with the Justice League’s leadership under Wonder Woman, forms his own Justice League, consisting of former Leaguers Blue Beetle, Booster Gold and Maxima, and new member Amazing Man, the grandson of the WW II-era superhero that Roy Thomas had created for his ALL-STAR SQUADRON series back in the ‘80s. To Vado’s credit, the team didn’t actually call itself “Extreme Justice,” instead referring to itself as the Justice League, since they believed themselves to be the true JLA over Wonder Woman’s group. Within the first year of the book, in a bizarre decision, Vado decided to introduce Saturday-morning SUPERFRIENDS sidekicks the Wonder Twins to official DC continuity, with enslaved aliens Zan and Jayna looking to the team for refuge from their masters, and by issue #16, they’d officially joined Captain Atom's Justice League. Of course, by issue #18, EXTREME JUSTICE was cancelled, so it wasn’t exactly a lengthy or distinguished tenure.

DOI?

TCB!

In terms of art, Paul Smith did some great work on Uncanny X-Men.

Great shades of Teen Titans OYL (cf Wendy & Marvin)

Len Wein's run on Mister Miracle was short and sweet.

I don't know that it's technically overlooked, but I maintain that Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing trumps Alan Moore's run any day of the week, and it remains one of my favorite runs of any comic ever.

Ditto the solo Alan Davis issues of Excalibur, the solo Peter Gross issues of The Books of Magic, and Secret Wars II.

Slightly OTM about Nocenti's DD. It had its moments, but, like pretty much everything Nocenti's written, it gets pretty derailed from time to time.

Nocenti's original Longshot was pretty great too. I wish she would've continued with those characters instead of handing them to Claremont.

Solo Peter Gross? I thought John Ney Reiber wrote it start to finish.

Actually, my first answer would be Nocenti's Kid Eternity, but that's less a run than a title.

D. Curtis Johnson's JLA :)

Christopher Priest on STEEL. Nobody read it at the time, and you can probably grab it for a quarter an issue now. So much fun.

Yeah, Andrew, Gross wrote and illustrated BoM from 51 to 75 (and annual 3, I believe...which also included a humorous Millar short story wherein Tim Hunter was the orphaned ward of John Constantine and part of an alternate universe, magic-centric Teen Titans). Very worth checking out. He shook up the status quo something fierce (in ways that I won't spoil here) and brought the series to a pretty satisfying conclusion.

It's "Wil-HANE"

I read Priest's STEEL!

I don't know about Vado on Extreme Justice, but The Griffin is rly good.

those mantlo/buscema hulks are nothing special (the overlooked hulk run = the brief great period when englehart wrote it)

Was just thinking yesterday about the awesomeness of the two-part Roy Thomas/Rich Buckler Superman/Captain Marvel team-up in DC Comics Presents...