1. Teen Titans (Wolfman/Perez era)
2. Justice League (Morrison era)
3. Avengers (around 1980)
4. Elementals
5. New Mutants (the original crew)
6. Fantastic Four
7. Gen 13 (the original group)
8. Generation X
9. X-Men (Claremont/Byrne era)
10/11. Alpha Flight (Byrne Era)/Doom Patrol (the initial Morrison issues, then it just got too weird)

Special Mention would go to DV8

1) The Defenders
2) All Star Squadron
3) Elementals
4) Squadron Supreme
5) Suicide Squad
6) Justice Machine
7) The Outsiders (original lineup)
8) Classic X-men
9) Perez Teen Titans
10) Thunderbolts (original lineup)

1. X-Men (GS#1 through Uncanny 175)
1a. Alpha Flight (In X-Men 120-121/139-140, and 1st 20 issues of series or so...)
2. Avengers (@issue 99 through 300: Byrne and Perez runs were favorite issues)
3. Invaders/All-Winners
4. New Teen Titans (Wolfman/Perez)
5. Defenders/New Defenders
6. Squadron Supreme (12 issue series was good)
7. Justice League (immediately post "Legends" MiniS)
8. The Thunderbolts
9. Silver Surfer and the Heralds of Galactus (vs. Tyrant)
10. The Einherjar (Thor, Balder, Skurge and da heores of Valhalla on the mission to Hel... cried like a baby when Skurge went down....)

The Fantastic Four:  Super Heroes, explorers, and a family.   When written right, they are the best comics have to offer.   When Tom Defalco writes them, they suck.  By far my favorite super hero comic, team, and characters.  Without this comic,  super hero comics may have gone out to pasture decades ago.

The Avengers:  They are the standard for all other super teams,  comic book wise and role playing wise.   I am sure the teams you guys play at home are somewhat modelled after this team.  You  even pick your teammates based on the Avenger's line up.  You look for the heavy hitter, the strategist, the energy projector the wild card.   The Avengers did it first.   Hell, I bet your team has a big round table with chairs with your symbols on them.


The Justice League: Come on,  this team is on everyone's list.  If it isn't, erase the Champions and put this one on.  This team is as close to a modern day Olympians as you are going to get.  And it should always be the big seven, with a few b listers tossed in.  THAT is the Justice League.  Vixen is a fine character, but she does not make the League the league,  Superman and Green Lantern do that.

X Men:   From 94 to about 200 this team was firing on all cylindars.  Great art, great characterisation,   the best costumes to date and  surpises and things out of left field.    Then all they did was fight amongst themselves and never reslove a plot thread. 

The Nobles:  From the Excellent comic Noble Causes:   Imagine a disfunctional Fantastic Four.  A great read about a super family with secrets upon secrets.  Affairs,  time travel, super science and bastard children all while saving the earth.  Too bad the writer got a better job in television.

SHEILD  This is the prototype super spy agency.  From them we get CHESS, and I am sure CHESS is a big deal in all our games.

The Marvel Family:  Three teenagers given the powers of the gods.  They have an extradimensional home with access to all time and space, AND a device that allows them to see anyware.   This is awsome!  Too bad DC hasn't caught on how awsome this is.    Hell, they should let me write this team.


Teen Titans:  A team of side kicks is a cool idea.  And when Marv and George were at the wheel they could do no wrong.   It was the best selling comic along with the X men during my teen years, and it hit its decline with the introduction of Jericho, the boy no one knew what to do with.

The Legion of Super Heroes:  The Avengers meets Star Trek.  Such a great concept it succeeds even though DC has tried to assassinate them time and time again.   This is the third comic in the Teen Titans/X Men/ Triumvirate.   Don't believe me, check out how many people still talk about the Great Darkness Saga.

The Justice Society:  There is something about the brown pants, yellow shirt on the Atom with the lavendar cape and green pants on the Green Lantern.  Horribly ugly costumes and ill defined powers and yet it works.   The first super team still holds a place in my heart.  I hope DC finally lets them go with some semblence of dignity.

Alpha Flight was great, then John Byrne left.  I heard rumors that they still made comics after that but  I can not validate this wild story.


The Defenders are awsome.  The team no one knows what the hell to do with.  I alwas thought that this team was really two teams that teamed up.  There was the Hulk, Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, Namor team and then the Hellcat, Nighthawk and Valkyre team.  I always loved this team and thought them a bizarre combo that existed somewhere in the corner of the Marvel Universe.

I can't believe I forgot the Elementals.   This comic influenced my game more than any other comic.  I should take out the Nobles and insert the Elementals.   Such a great comic, team and artwork.  I would love it if Willingham got the rights back and restarted this title.  When I win the lottery, I will buy the rights to this team and give it to Bill and then buy V&V from FGU and give it to Dee as a thanks for so many years of fun.     Then I  will buy a solid gold helicopter!

villains in no order: Crime Syndicate (old & new), U-Foes, Marauders, Masters of Evil, Original T-Bolts, Frightful Four, Freedom Force, grant morrison Injustice Gang, Lsv, & The Dark Judges.

1-2) Avengers and Justice League
3-4) Teen Titans and X-Men
5-6) Fantastic Four and Legion of Super Heroes
7-8) Invaders and Alpha Flight
9-10) Gen 13 and WildCATS

Honorable Mentions: the Authority, Doom Patrol, Justice Machine, Justice Society, and a special thanks to the most awesome Elementals and way too short-lived Crusaders 

Majestic wrote on Apr 27^th, 2012 at 2:44pm:

Don't forget Radioactive Man, he's a rather burly fellow.

Quote:

I love that movie!

And who couldn't love the Wrecking Crew? They have their own theme song!

Kap wrote on Apr 29^th, 2012 at 1:23am:


I think it was Ross Andru, at least for a while. Walt Simonson did a run on them, too, but that may have been after Kanigher was off the book.