 | Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller
Buy new: $18.24 / Used from: $29.99 Mazz and Miller, two great storytellers own Daredevil.
They tear him down bare and lift him again anew
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 | Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.25 The whole Run is amazing
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 | Boy Vampire Volume 1: The Resurrection (Boy Vampire (SAF Comics)) by Carlos Trillo
Buy used from: $4.84 Risso and Trillo are magic together
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 | Sgt. Rock: Between Hell & a Hard Place by Joe Kubert
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.78 Kubert makes it all look so easy, his visions of WW2 are beautiful yet brutal at the same time
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 | DAREDEVIL 234-318, 25-Different, Marvel Comics' Swashbuckling Hero, Instant Gift, Instant Collection by D.G. Chichester Ann Nocenti
My favorite JR JR work, he really comes into his own with this work in my eyes
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 | Thor, Vol. 1 by J. Michael Straczynski
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.60 A modern masterpiece, Straczynski turns everything (bar one more day) to gold, this is how to relaunch a character.
Coipel is like honey
I also recommend Simon and Frenz' runs respectively
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 | Moebius 1: Upon a Star by Jean "Moebius" Giraud
Buy used from: $21.95 Get everything you can from Moebius, he is one of THE most influential narrative artists world wide.
Once you read his work you see its nuances pop up everywhere from Miller (Ronin) to Quietly (everything)
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 | Essential Silver Surfer, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials) (v. 1) by Stan Lee
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.89 Buscema at his best.
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 | Green Lantern Corps: Recharge by Geoff Johns
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $7.80 The work Johns has done with the Green Lantern franchise is amazing, he rebuilt what became a joke of a book into something that is consistently good.
Patrick Gleeson keeps getting better and his style and storytelling are really his own.
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 | The Big Hoax by Carlos Trillo
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $1.80 Beautiful composition, Mandrafina is extremely underrated here in the USA much like Garcia Lopez and Ron Garney
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 | Blacksad, vol. 2 (v. 2) by Juan Diaz Canales
Buy used from: $10.46 The art is astonishing, noir animal detective tale
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 | Punisher Presents: Barracuda MAX by Garth Ennis
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $6.95 One of the funniest books I have read ever!
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 | Batman: Venom by Dennis O'Neil
Buy used from: $26.95 Batman hooked on steroids goes a little crazy and beats up a bunch of sharks.
Crazy but awesome
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 | Essential Wolverine, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials) by Chris Claremont
Buy used from: $4.59 More nice Buscema, wolverine before he was in every book and lost his identity as a character
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $6.22 The greatest English comic and probably the greatest worlwide.
Changed the comic world in the 80's and lifted the bar in social commentry.
Yes comics can be art.
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 | Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road (Lone Wolf and Cub (Dark Horse)) by Kazuo Koike
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.35 Japanese mastery
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 | The Metabarons: Blood and Steel by Alexandro Jodorowsky
Buy used from: $29.99 space sci fi worrior stuff
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 | Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $7.82 Miller before he fell from grace
One of my fav US books, this has it all
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 | John Constantine, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing by Garth Ennis
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.71 The whole run of Ennis and Dillon is MAgic
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 | 100 Bullets Vol. 7: Samurai by Brian Azzarello
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $4.92 Risso chooses angles and shots like no one else.
Beautifully illustrated
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 | Judge Dredd: Dredd VS. Death (Judge Dredd (Graphic Novels)) by John Wagner
Buy used from: $7.50 Bolland when he actually did sequential work, this stuff allowed him to break into the US market
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 | We3 by Grant Morrison
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $6.48 Another of my fav US books, this pushes the boundaries of the mediums so often it really is a masterpiece
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| Iron Man, October 1990 (Armor Wars II, Vol. 1 #261) by Byrne
more great JRJR
Iron man actually drawn well?!
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 | Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $8.98 Bolland and Moore define the Joker
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 | Planetary Vol. 3: Leaving the 20th Century by Warren Ellis
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.48 This whole run is a great read, see Cassaday grow
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 | Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted by Joss Whedon
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.98 Cassaday fully grown
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 | Superman: Red Son (Elseworlds) by Mark Millar
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $7.94 Amazing story and art, a classic elseworlds.
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 | The Authority Book 2: Under New Management by Warren Ellis
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.99 |
 | Orion: The Gates of Apokolips by Walter Simonson
Buy used from: $5.10 Simonson can tell a story like no one else, Kirby on acid
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 | Earth X by Alex Ross
Buy used from: $14.25 Epic and haunting
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 | Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E Volume 1: This Is What They Want TPB (v. 1) by Warren Ellis
Buy new: $11.24 / Used from: $10.00 Funny, funny funny
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 | Daredevil, Vol. 1 (v. 1) by Frank Miller
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $15.57 One of the greatest partnerships in American comics
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