Tag Archives: Golden Age Back Issues

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Best Superman Stories of All Time

We're continuing our focus on Superman here at Comics Back Issues by counting down the top 25 best Superman stories of all time.  We'll be using our methodology used for other Top 25 lists, that is scouring the web for the most lists we could find and compile an aggregate listing for the most definitive list out there. Top 25 Superman Stories Overview No story is off limits, as we include Golden, Silver, Post-Crisis an Elseworlds stories in this list.  In fact, alternate reality stories tend Read more [...]

List of Major Events in the X-Men Universe

IMPORTANT: An updated version of this post is available here. As companion to my recently launched X-Men Read Order and Graphical X-Men Timeline, I decided to pick up essential issues and their related storylines from the X-Men Universe. This follows the read order scope, that is to say from Giant-Sized X-Men #1 to House of M. Timeline of events in the X-Men Universe Essential Issues of Major Events in the X-Men Universe Giant Sized X-Men #1 All-New X-Men debut to save the original X-Men team. Uncanny Read more [...]

Golden Age Comics: Captain Marvel or Superman?

While doing my recent profile on the Golden Age of Comics, I omitted a few key issues in order to keep it light. Still, there are some issues that are still worth mentioning, which I will do through profiles on this blog. Golden Age Comics' most popular Superhero If you would ask someone to name one Golden Age Comics superhero, Superman would be far and away the top answer. Yet, in our minds we seem to have rewritten history, believing that Superman was always the most popular superhero of Golden Read more [...]