Stuff to read on Marvel Unlimited

[womzilla]

Marvel Unlimited is Marvel's subscription-based digital comics service. It has an astonishing range of back issues available (as well as more recent issues) in an all-you-can-eat format.

What are the indispensable runs at Marvel? In rough order of importance, here are my top 10:

• Ditko/Lee: Amazing Spider-Man #1-38, Annual #1
  
• Kirby/Lee: Fantastic Four #1-51, Annual #1-2
  
• Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne: X-Men, Giant-Sized #1, #94-150.
  
• Gerber/Brunner/Colan: Howard the Duck #1-27, #29, Annual #1, and the 2 short stories from Giant-Sized Man-Thing #4 and #5
  
• Simonson (w/Buscema): Thor #337-372
  
• Starlin's Warlock: Strange Tales #178-181, Warlock #9-15, Avengers Annual #7, Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2
  
• Englehart/Brown et al.: Avengers #105-141, Giant-Size Avengers #2-4
  
• Miller (w/Jansen) Daredevil #168-191
  
• Steranko's Nick Fury: Strange Tales #151-168, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D #1-5,
  
• Priest/various artists, Black Panther #1-62
  

(I'm trying not to repeat characters or creators or else easy inclusions would be Ditko/Lee's Doctor Strange in Strange Tales; Gerber's Defenders and Man-Thing; Stern/Romita's Amazing Spider-Man; or Lee/Romita's Amazing Spider-Man. I'm also very partial to Peter Gillis's run on Doctor Strange, which spanned the final issues of the first Dr. Strange series, the 1980s Strange Tales split-book, and the first few issues of the second Dr Strange series. The Moench/Gulacy/Day/et al. Master of Kung Fu absolutely should be in the list, but it's not available through Marvel Unlimited.)

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I'm telling B. about this, you bet.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

This made me interested in finding out more aobut Marvel Unlimited. So I went to their website. And found it literally unreadable. Sheesh.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Hope you have a fabulous time in Detroit and enjoy your well-deserved honor!

[(Anonymous)]

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[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Walt Simonson's run on THOR.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Oh. Duh. You already had that.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I found myself wondering why I didn't include Gillis's Doctor Strange, and finally realized it felt off to list it without listing the Ditko/Lee run. So, really, consider them both listed.

Also, I haven't checked whether these are available, but the Gruenwald/Ryan DP 7 and the Gillis/Anderson Strikeforce Morituri were probably Marvel's best books of the late 1980s.