Reader Participation: Your favorite Marvel story title.

22 Comments on “Reader Participation: Your favorite Marvel story title.”

1. 1 Ray Cornwall said at 12:39 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   I’ll give you two: E is for Extinction, Grant Morrison’s first New X-Men storyline.

   And Infinity Gauntlet. Seriously, it’s infinite, and it’s a gauntlet. I had to buy the story just because of the name.

2. 2 Noser said at 12:42 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   Swan Song of the Living Dead Duck!

3. 3 Bully said at 1:30 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   Fantastic Four #166: “If It’s Tuesday, This Must be the Hulk!”

4. 4 Chris Sims said at 1:31 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   The Final Chapter.

5. 5 Rob said at 1:45 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   This seems so obvious that I feel like I should apologize: “The Brute That Shouted Love at the Heart of the Atom!”

6. 6 keith said at 1:49 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   It’s a lame title for a lame Arcade story, but Claremont’s “He only Laughs when I Hurt” always sticks in my head.

7. 7 MarkAndrew said at 2:24 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   Circus Spelled Sideways … Is Death!

8. 8 Chris Sims said at 3:02 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   D’oh, I completely missed that this was favorite title, not favorite story. In that case, I’ll go with the issue of Walt Simonson’s Thor that asks the question “What Do You Call a 6’6″ Fighting Mad Frog?” on the cover, then opens on a splash page reading “SIR!“

9. 9 Josh said at 3:34 pm on January 27th, 2009:

   “When Cometh… The Commuter!”

10. 10 Our Man Horn said at 4:25 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    I have those two Gerber hardcovers “The Photo-Journal Guide to Marvel Comics” and they contain color cover photos of nearly every Marvel comic from 1960 to 1990. Nearly anything that was Stan Lee-scribed is bombastic and hilarious. Really fun to peruse. But off the top of my head,

    “To Save You, Why Must I Kill You?” (Fantastic Four #42)

11. 11 keith said at 4:59 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    Oh, shit, duh: “The Car Wash of Doom!”

12. 12 Bob Mitchell said at 5:17 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    Daredevil 118 was “Circus Spelled Sideways Is Death!”

13. 13 Mike C said at 7:51 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    Iron Man #252′s “Apothecary Now” is pretty cracktastic, but what’s 1000 times better and should have been used for the title was the stroy teaser from the previous issue: “Without Chemisto, Life Itself Would Still Be Possible!”

14. 14 Jim Kakalios said at 9:09 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    Scott Saavedra’s comic Book Heaven has summed all of the Stan Lee Marvel titles in a single meta title:

    When Verbs Misplaced Are!

    off the top of my head: The Gentleman’s Name is… Gorgon!

    and a 1980′s Thor: The Zaniac Craves Blood!

15. 15 Scott said at 9:17 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    I got a soft spot in my heart for “This Man… This Monster!”

16. 16 Zak said at 10:14 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    “The Grand Garbage Can” and part two “Spidey Cleans Up” from issue 33 of Spidey Super Stories.

17. 17 Tim O'Neil said at 11:44 pm on January 27th, 2009:

    My hands-down favorite popped into my head immediately, but unfortunately Our Man Horn beat me to it. So . . . how about, “The Bearable Lightness Of Unbeing” from Quasar #18.

18. 18 Diego said at 1:57 am on January 28th, 2009:

    Dave Sim used to come up with some fine ones: “Anything Done For the First Time Releases a Demon.” Imagine that title with an FF story. Or Jimmy Olsen.

19. 19 KDBryan said at 4:41 am on January 28th, 2009:

    I’m also a sucker for “This Man . . . This Monster!” but I’d have to go with “Nothing Can Stop The Juggernaut!”. As a kid who took things at face value, it made me wonder how the hell the story would end for Spidey and forced me to buy the comic right away. Plus, good old-timey catchphrase fun (before it got beaten into the ground and X3 came around, anyways).

    (Sidebar: it occurs to me that my favorite recent titles were probably in Y: The Last Man but hey, not a Marvel title.)

20. 20 Michael said at 4:29 pm on January 28th, 2009:

    Uatu Be In Pictures.

21. 21 Brian Smith said at 4:42 pm on January 28th, 2009:

    It’s not super-fancy, but the one that’s stuck with me all these years is one of John Byrne’s last “Fantastic Four” issues: “Central City Does Not Answer!”

22. 22 Sean Roper said at 2:22 pm on January 29th, 2009:

    “Call My Killer Modok!” – granted, it was a paperback, but still a great title.