the Best One shots of All Time

[swinebread]

With the best and worst mini-series threads going on, I thought I would start a thread about the Best One shots of All Time. I’m drawing a blank here on what really is great, so I thought would list a few, I know I missing something, but oh well. (We’re talking about the pamphlet here, not trades or graphic novels.)

Mysterious Suspense: The Question gets his own title.
Marvel Tails: First Appearance of Spider-Ham
Funnies on Parade (I think): The origin of the modern American comic book.

[Hintermann]

Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea, but as a 7-year old back in 1962-3 I was fascinated with Gold Key's one off publication of "Blake Harper; City Surgeon". I still have the original comic and have often wondered over the years why it was not continued as a series.

[rick]

A few I have some real love for……

Steve Rude's Space Ghost is just about the best drawn comic in the entire history of the medium.

Steve Ditko’s Mr. A is just about the most intense.

And while I know it wasn’t the characters only appearance, the Byrne & Clairmont Star-Lord makes my list.

There is a wonderful underground comic from 1976 titled Give Me Liberty, by Gilbert Shelton, Willy Murphy, Ted Richards and several others, that tells the history of the American Revolution and is an amazing combination of UG sensibility and the attempt at something educational. It is a truly classic and yet almost unknown book.

A silly one from the 1980’s, but still lots of fun, was Hunt Emerson’s rootin, tootin, fightin’, Thunderdogs.

I can still sing the theme song.

[nonhosonno]

And while I know it wasn’t the characters only appearance, the Byrne & Clairmont Star-Lord makes my list.

Yes!! That there's a real goody.

[Rob Allen]

Steve Ditko’s Mr. A is just about the most intense.

Weren't there at least 2 issues of Mr. A? The second came out after Avenging World and Wha?!?!

To answer the original question, I'll nominate the one-and-only Soupy Sales comic from Archie.

And Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green.

[MDG]

And Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green.
The book that got me through catholic high school.

MDG

[Red Oak Kid]

I thought the single Atlas Seaboard issue of Demon Hunter by Rich Buckler was one of the best things he ever did.

[DoubleWide]

The Motorhead special was great. But when they showed us the voice inside his head, that killed the series PDQ.

AplhaBet Supes is another goodie. And the Fruit Man Special from Harvey Comics.

[Sir Tim Drake]

The Motorhead special was great. But when they showed us the voice inside his head, that killed the series PDQ.

AplhaBet Supes is another goodie. And the Fruit Man Special from Harvey Comics.

I loved Alphabet Supes. It's a real shame that they never put out another issue, although it's a bit of a one-joke premise.

[benday-dot]

Without doubt it has to be Amazing Fantasy #15... Marvel must have known it, because there are no 1-14, such was the departure with the past at Spidey's first appearance.

[prince hal]

In the indicia for the TALES OF ASGARD special that Marvel issued in 1968 or so, it actually said "published one-shot," a term I'd never seen before and haven't seen since.

I very much enjoyed that issue.

Also, Gold Key's KING KONG, from around that same time, was an excellent adaptation of the movie, or at least that's how I remember it.

Do the old SECRET ORIGINS 80-page giants count?

[prince hal]

In the indicia for the TALES OF ASGARD special that Marvel issued in 1968 or so, it actually said "published one-shot," a term I'd never seen before and haven't seen since.

I very much enjoyed that issue.

Also, Gold Key's KING KONG, from around that same time, was an excellent adaptation of the movie, or at least that's how I remember it.

The old SECRET ORIGINS should count, because the second collection was part of the 80-page giant series (#8).

[Red Oak Kid]

Oddest, might be that Iron Man/ Submariner #1 in the 60s when these two characters got their own solo titles.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

Lady Cop. Part of the first issue spectacular from the 70s.

I wish they had continued that.

[Jankenstein]

My personal favorite one shot is Mike Mignola's The Amazing Screw On Head. Pure genius.

[Jankenstein]

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