Best Issue #1's youve ever read.

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Pperspectiveandreality

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In my opinion a great issue #1 needs five things:

-interesting characters

-great pacing

-some sort of action

-interesting story

-some sort of mystery

So with that being said here are a few examples of the very best issue #1's I've ever read.

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I don't think anyone in comics does a better issue #1 than Brian K. Vaughan

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So many interesting characters and so many questions left unanswered. This was near flawless in my opinion.

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I'd never read a Superman comic before this and in just one issue Grant Morrison made him my all time favorite character.

So there are a few of mine. What are some of your favorite issue #1's?

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That I've read?

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Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 ... hooked on DC comics ever since.

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#5  Edited By DarthAznable

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Saga, Y: The Last Man, Hawkeye, Lazarus, Catwoman (Brubaker). I'm sure there are others, but those are the favorites that come to mind.

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#7  Edited By DarthAznable

@blackdog2009: Crisis on Infinite Earths kind of bored me honestly.

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Y: The Last Man

Saga

Snyder's Batman

The current Black Widow run

Identity Crisis

Velvet

Fables

Secret Six

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Most recently I really enjoyed Inhuman #1. Prob not the best #1 I've read, but the best I've read this year.

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Anymore?

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This is the best #1 issue I've read recently. Others that come to mind: Animal Man (original Vertigo series and New 52 are top notch), Fables, New Avengers (original series by Bendis) East of West, Saga and The Nightly News.

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Okay, I read in a TBP, but it was great. And the series, at least up through the first 40 issues, keeps getting better.

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#16  Edited By waezi2

@_goliath_: Dude, you have a problem with my favorite super-team? XD

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#17  Edited By QueenCorp15

BY FAR the new Moon Knight #1 by warren ellis, i thought it was flawless from dialogue to pacing to story to art, it was all perfect

Also All Star Superman #1 was AMAZING from superman learning that hes dieing to him telling lois that hes superman

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@waezi2: Don't act like you don't remember the tomatoes, pig.

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Black Science, Southern Bastards, Lazarus, Velvet, Rat Queens. All new Image books, all outstanding #1's.

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Ms. Marvel (2014), Power Girl

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Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four #1

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Geoff Johns' Rebirth #1

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Duane Swierczynski's Bloodshot #1

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One of my favorites:

Issue One
Issue One

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For me JL 3000, Snyder's Batman, Moon Knight, and Future's End.

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Fables, Fairest, Velvet, Rat Queens, Saga, (ANMN) Elektra, ANMN She-Hulk, Lazarus, Hawkeye, Next Wave: Agents of HATE, Secret Six (the longer run), Winter Soldier, American Vampire, Fatale, Demon Knights, Journey into Mystery (Sif and Loki's runs respectively), Demeter, Gail Simone's first issue on Birds of Prey (which is I think #36 so I don't know if it counts)

Some are recent, some are not. I also think that my tastes can be sufficiently inferred from this list.

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Iron Fist Living Weapon, Moon Knight and recently Batman Eternal

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Funnily enough I love Snyder's Batman but his issue 1 didn't totally grab me. It took me a couple of issues to be 100% on board his current run.

I think one of the best #1s I've read in a while was Deadly Class.

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Everyone should read this.

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Well other then the ones that are mention here like All Star Superman and New Avengers but other then that, I would have to say.

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Uncanny X-Force (vol.1)

Unity

Brubaker's Captain America

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Fables, Saga, Rat Queens, Aquaman (new 52), Wonder Woman (New 52) and Brubaker's Catwoman!

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Loving the image and valiant love on this thread.

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New Avengers #1 by Bendis

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Also X-O Manowars

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#46  Edited By BeaconofStrength

Superior Foes of Spider-Man had an amazing first issue.

It's the best #1 I've read.

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IDW Tmnt issue 1 was great.

New 52 Nightwing issue 1 was great.

Earth 2 issue 1 was great.

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Aquaman #1 new 52.

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