what are your favorite individual comic stories?

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the galactus/silver surfer trilogy in fantastic four #48-50
"minnie's third love" by phoebe gloeckner
"starchie" by harvey kurtzman and bill elder (in mad)
"blue italian shit" by dan clowes
"master race" by bernie krigstein

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The death of Raven Sherman story in Terry And The Pirates, circa 1941

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

We should credit the writer of Master Race: Al Feldstein.

I have a big soft spot for the Gerber & Colan (if memory serves, which it may not) 'What Do You Do The Day After You Saved The Universe?' in Howard The Duck. Also 'White Devil, Yellow Devil' by Bob Kanigher (unless it was Archie Goodwin?) and Alex Toth. The Lone Wolf & Cub story where the kid is off on his own and caught in a burning field. There are loads - those are just a few that leap immediately to mind.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a great Harlan Ellison-penned story in, I think, Detective Comics, pre-Crisis, about the night Batman couldn't find any crime to fight. It stuck out for me partly because I knew my dad liked H.E. and somehow this made me feel more grown up. Also, it was a fun story.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Good Man Fall" or whatever it was from The Invisibles.

"The Dread Deadline Doom" from Howard the Duck. Though there's so many classics there, it's hard to pick.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Every time I reread Howard the Duck, I have a different favorite, so I'm going to excuse it from consideration.

First things to come to mind:

The two-issue "Nomad" story during Englehart's Captain America run.

The Killing Joke.

The "Surreal Detective" issue of Milligan's Shade, even though I think it was kind of dumb, too.

Deadpool in space.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Grant Morrison's last JLA story - the way it piled the odds against our heroes so insanely high (with Heaven having given up on the universe, and God working on plans for the next one!) was magnificent, and that moment when Batman says to Superman (approximately) "Mageddon may have destroyed the last universe, it may have wiped out the ten thousand greatest superbeings in the universe, but Clark, it hasn't faced US yet!"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin completely OTM there.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That coyote issue of Animal Man.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The beard-hunter story from Doom Patrol.

The Punisher-parody character (after having a stack of cans land on him): "Can't let him see me cry."

― Bryan N (Bryan N), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

As far as Morrison-JLA stories go, I always liked the "Days of Future Past" issue of Rock of Ages where a ravaged Batman faces down a Darkseid he has just outwitted. Narrated by the Black Skier, death himself.
Darkseid's line " You are small, yet you have hurt me. I respect that." Batman smiling as he sees his death approaching.
Plus the climax to Moore/Davis' Captain Britain where the Fury fights Jaspers as reality warps and bends around them.
Plus the last Moore issue of Miracleman.

― David N (David N.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The death of Raven Sherman story in Terry And The Pirates, circa 1941

I just read this as "The Death of
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Also, favourite individual story: Animal Man 25, where Buddy meets all the long-forgotten characters in comics limbo (Mr Freeze!), and the monkey on the typewriter who's just written the past 24 issues of Animal Man. Anyway, as a 14-year-old, it BLEW MY MIND.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favorite standalone Lone Wolf story is the one with the ronin who flings rocks at Itto.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 21 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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