Biggest Events Ever In Comics

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:12:47 pm

What are the biggest events ever in comics? What are the biggest events in comics since you've been collecting/+ reading comics?
If Flashpoint is real, as has been said in another thread by Professor Xodacia81, I think this may end up being, if not the biggest, one of the biggest events since I've been in comics.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:16:26 pm

The deaths of Gwen Stacy and the Green Goblin, the death of Superman, the launch of Valiant Comics come to mind as the biggest events I've seen in comics since I've been involved in them.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few big ones.

BruceReville · Post by **BruceReville** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:24:32 pm

1) Crisis On Infinite Earths - 1st - Best - And Should Have Been Last Reboot of DC.

2) Formation of Image Comics - Big time artist leaving Marvel & start of what would become the 3rd largest comic company.

3) Death Of Superman - The largest event to bleed over heavily into the mainstream media and the height of the 90s Comic Bubble.

4) CGC Grading - even though I loathe it CGC has saved the art form of comic collecting for the distinguished collector.

5) Introduction of the Black Spider-Man Suit in Secret Wars.

comicsyte95 · Post by **comicsyte95** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:26:24 pm

Infinity Gauntlet,Unity,and Crisis on infinite earths I think?

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:28:05 pm

BruceReville wrote:4) CGC Grading.

Good point.

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:47:45 pm

Action #1?

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:51:05 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:Action #1?

Definitely, and the sale of an Action #1 for $1,000,000 about 72 years later.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:55:18 pm

greg wrote:
X-O HoboJoe wrote:Action #1?
Definitely, and the sale of an Action #1 for $1,000,000 about 72 years later.

Two big events, indeed. I'd have to say Batman #1, and Amazing Spider-Man #1 as well. Showcase #104, too.

BruceReville · Post by **BruceReville** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:57:09 pm

StarBrand wrote:
greg wrote:
X-O HoboJoe wrote:Action #1?
Definitely, and the sale of an Action #1 for $1,000,000 about 72 years later.
Two big events, indeed. I'd have to say Batman #1, and Amazing Spider-Man #1 as well. Showcase #104, too.

All of you are old if those are the biggest events SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN COLLECTING as the original post asks.

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:58:39 pm

BruceReville wrote:
StarBrand wrote:
greg wrote:
X-O HoboJoe wrote:Action #1?
Definitely, and the sale of an Action #1 for $1,000,000 about 72 years later.
Two big events, indeed. I'd have to say Batman #1, and Amazing Spider-Man #1 as well. Showcase #104, too.
All of you are old if those are the biggest events SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN COLLECTING as the original post asks.

It looks like the first question in the original post is...

StarBrand wrote:What are the biggest events ever in comics?

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:59:03 pm

Biggest event since I've been collecting is the formation of Image comics.

If you are actually talking about a comic book event, probably Death of Robin with the whole call-in thing.

BruceReville · Post by **BruceReville** » Wed May 25, 2011 8:00:13 pm

greg wrote:
BruceReville wrote:
StarBrand wrote:
greg wrote:
X-O HoboJoe wrote:Action #1?
Definitely, and the sale of an Action #1 for $1,000,000 about 72 years later.
Two big events, indeed. I'd have to say Batman #1, and Amazing Spider-Man #1 as well. Showcase #104, too.
All of you are old if those are the biggest events SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN COLLECTING as the original post asks.

It looks like the first question in the original post is...
StarBrand wrote:What are the biggest events ever in comics?

Well my then!

hulk181man · Post by **hulk181man** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:19:14 pm

Secret Wars

I was new to comics at the time, was an impressionable age, and just amazed by the whole concept. It's weird how I can still re-read it and feel that old energy all over again...

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Thu May 26, 2011 1:10:21 am

Superman vs. Ali Treasury sized book.

kevinbastos · Post by **kevinbastos** » Thu May 26, 2011 7:10:56 am

hulk181man wrote:Secret Wars

I was new to comics at the time, was an impressionable age, and just amazed by the whole concept. It's weird how I can still re-read it and feel that old energy all over again...

Funny. I was thinking the same thing - only about the "Marvel Mutant Massacre," because it was the first 'big' event I'd read as a kid. My first X-Men was 210, and just kept expanding from there.

I think catching that 'spark' can be so important in comics. Through most of my collecting, I was very monogamous to Marvel Comics. The first few DC brands I read were not of a big interest, at all. Superman and Batman just seemed like the Superfriends (and not even the good Legion of Doom years!)

Heck! I still love the old West Coast Avengers "Lost in Space-Time" concept series. I'm getting chills remembering the conclusion when Mockingbird killed the old Phantom Rider.

What I'm saying is that a perspective of comics really lends a hand to the comics themselves. That ecstatic feeling when picking up a comic - or finding a great deal - that translates.

OH! One more thing.

Unity, of course.

Brought me back, and gave me two more years of solid collecting before my hiatus - and before ebay!

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:05:15 am

A whole swathe of books in the late 80s that lead to Vertigo and the mature comics audience: Swamp Thing, Morrison's Animal Man, Sandman etc.

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Thu May 26, 2011 9:29:28 am

Infinity Gauntlet-IMHO the best of Marvel Crossover.

Unity-One of the best comic crossover.

Crisis on Infinte Earths-DC's greatest crossover.

Identity Crisis-A smart, gripping, and compeling series that asked some troubling questions about some of the greatest heroes of the DCU.

And currently:

Transformers: Chaos-An event so big that only series can handle it. I'm glad that there is an event that is only in ONE title. I hope it's good.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Thu May 26, 2011 10:57:22 am

ian_house wrote:A whole swathe of books in the late 80s that lead to Vertigo and the mature comics audience: Swamp Thing, Morrison's Animal Man, Sandman etc.

Interesting take.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Thu May 26, 2011 10:58:09 am

Cyberstrike wrote:Infinity Gauntlet-IMHO the best of Marvel Crossover.

Unity-One of the best comic crossover.

Crisis on Infinte Earths-DC's greatest crossover.

Identity Crisis-A smart, gripping, and compeling series that asked some troubling questions about some of the greatest heroes of the DCU.

And currently:

Transformers: Chaos-An event so big that only series can handle it. I'm glad that there is an event that is only in ONE title. I hope it's good.

Unity and Identity Crisis may be two of the most cerebral crossovers/epics in comics history and I love them for it.

robb77 · Post by **robb77** » Thu May 26, 2011 5:02:26 pm

xodacia81 wrote:
Cyberstrike wrote:Infinity Gauntlet-IMHO the best of Marvel Crossover.

Unity-One of the best comic crossover.

Crisis on Infinte Earths-DC's greatest crossover.

Identity Crisis-A smart, gripping, and compeling series that asked some troubling questions about some of the greatest heroes of the DCU.

And currently:

Transformers: Chaos-An event so big that only series can handle it. I'm glad that there is an event that is only in ONE title. I hope it's good.
Unity and Identity Crisis may be two of the most cerebral crossovers/epics in comics history and I love them for it.

very good list - some very cool crossovers

OmenSpirits.com · Post by **OmenSpirits.com** » Thu May 26, 2011 6:53:43 pm

Kingdom Come (changed comics foever)

Death of Optimus Prime (they had a comic!)

Operation Galactic Storm (c'mon, the avengers go out & kill the Supreme Intelligence!)

Iron Man :Armor Wars

Avengers Forever:

Death of Superman (didn't care then, but one of the best characters to be created came from it, Joh Henry Irons aka Steel!)

Thor: The Serpent Saga (one of the greatest adventures told in comics!)

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Thu May 26, 2011 6:57:45 pm

Does the Korvac Saga belong anywhere close to this list? I've never read it, but I've heard such great things about it.

Unblessed · Post by **Unblessed** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:37:50 pm

The burst of the comic book bubble in the 90's.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Fri May 27, 2011 1:08:25 am

StarBrand wrote:Does the Korvac Saga belong anywhere close to this list? I've never read it, but I've heard such great things about it.

I loved that way-back-when but it's kind of dated and watered down by all the "big-event" storylines from the last few years.