Successful Comedy Issues of DC Comics

[Flash's Lightning]

For me, I loved that issue of Superman where Mxyzptlk brought to life a Badda-Bing Badda Doomsday. That issue was funny.

Any others?

[jv2k]

Young justice.

[Xanrn]

Superboy 85.

Superman and Batman 26. (or Superboy and Robin).

[Grazzt]

The JLI issue of Ostrander's Martian Manhunter:

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2659/martianmanhunter242kz.jpg

[DubipR]

Stating the obvious, the Giffen/DeMatties Justice League.
I'd also put the brilliantly underrated Mahnke Major Bummer up there as one damn hilarious run of comics. If you can find them, I happened to enjoy the crossover of all crossovers; yes, I'm talking Looney Tunes/Justice League. Its silly and a fun all ages read.

Oh, but you can't beat..pound for pound, WORLD'S FUNNIEST

[Kelson]

Impulse guest-starring in Adventures of Superman

[Corrina]

The Legion of Substitute Heroes special!

Stone Boy to Bad Guys: If you don't stop, I will turn into a stone and stand very, very still!

[jerrymcl89]

I liked the issue of the previous Johns JSA series that involved the JSA and the JLA trying to have Thanksgiving dinner, in which Mr. Terrific spent most of the issue trying to get Batman to not be so paranoid (which, it inevitably turned out, he was right to be).

[The Lucky One]

Yeah, all of Young Justice. Definitely.

Impulse #50 (team-up with Batman).

Justice League Quarterly #... uh, 3 or 4. The one with Guy Gardner about to be eaten by a giant monster Ice. The main story was no great shakes, but the Injustice League backup was the funniest story I had ever read in my young life. Still holds up.

-D

[handOFfate]

Young Justice is the most consistantly amusing comic I ever read. The "silent" issue where Impulse is trying to find someone to hang out with was one of the funniest stories i've ever read

Man, I miss Bart.

[Matthew E]

The Legion of Substitute Heroes special!

Stone Boy to Bad Guys: If you don't stop, I will turn into a stone and stand very, very still!

Even better was the issue of DC Comics Presents where Superman accidentally brought Ambush Bug to the 30th century and had to get help from the Subs to hunt him down.

[Froggy]

Young Justice is the most consistantly amusing comic I ever read. The "silent" issue where Impulse is trying to find someone to hang out with was one of the funniest stories i've ever read

Man, I miss Bart.

statement echoed

[Hatut Zeraze]

Even better was the issue of DC Comics Presents where Superman accidentally brought Ambush Bug to the 30th century and had to get help from the Subs to hunt him down.

I'm with you on that one. It may be the funniest comic book I have ever read.

Also, props to Grazzt on identifying that Martian Manhunter issue. When I saw the thread topic, it was the second comic book that popped into my head. John Ostrander's secret JLI story was perfect. Mahnke's art was a homerun.

I'd also like to put that Morrison Doom Patrol issue out there in which Cliff Steele faced The Brain and Monsieur Mallah as a disembodied brain himself, completely unable to even see what was going on for the entire issue. Whenever I want to crack up any of my buddies from back in the day, I just turn around and say to them "Kiss me, Mallah."

[Expletive Deleted]

I thought VEXT was comedy gold.

I'm weird, though.

[Aaron King]

That Mallah/Brain issue of Doom Patrol (28?) is definitely one of the all-around best comics ever published.

[Jack Zodiac]

The entire run of Young Justice was a riot. So was Giffen and DeMatteis' Justice League. And Impulse, even after Waid left, was always a comedy book- I don't care what Mark says. He didn't lose his sense of humor until that crapfest Graduation Day.

Also, the last issue of Blue Beetle was hilarious, especially when Eclipso tried to take over Jaime. And Gail's All-New Atom has been hysterical from the start.

[mgs]

argonnes and evanier issues of their taking on all the dc characters was pretty fun! :)

[Kirayoshi]

How about "World's Funnest" by Evan Dorkin with art by everybody and their uncle? Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite destroy the multiverse together. Lampooned everything from Captain Carrot and Shazam to Dark Knight and Kingdom Come.

Speaking of Mxy, I enjoyed his appearance in Superman, pre-IC, where he showed Clark and Lois what it would be like if they had a child together. Riffed on both Sin City and Calvin and Hobbes.

Shortly after No Man's Land, there was a great Batman issue where Batman was alone and bored in the Batcave. He kept calling Oracle for status reports on current cases, until Dick Grayson answered back, "Hey, do you mind? We're making out here!" Later he called up Aquaman to help him retrieve the giant penny, which had fallen into an underground lake during the Gotham earthquake. At the end of the issue, Aquaman said, "Hey, next time why not just say you want some company? I'll bring some videos or something." (all quotes from memory)

[Greg Anderson]

Shortly after No Man's Land, there was a great Batman issue where Batman was alone and bored in the Batcave. He kept calling Oracle for status reports on current cases, until Dick Grayson answered back, "Hey, do you mind? We're making out here!" Later he called up Aquaman to help him retrieve the giant penny, which had fallen into an underground lake during the Gotham earthquake. At the end of the issue, Aquaman said, "Hey, next time why not just say you want some company? I'll bring some videos or something." (all quotes from memory)

HAHA! You gotta tell me what comic/issue that was! I need to track that down! :D

[The Lucky One]

HAHA! You gotta tell me what comic/issue that was! I need to track that down! :D

It was an early issue of Batman: Gotham Knights. I wanna say #6 or 8 or 10, one of those. And yeah, it was pretty funny. Especially the part with Bruce talking to the bats in the cave.

"Yes, I know I could just go to bed. But I just slept two days ago!"

-D

[Charybdis4]

Captain Carrot!

Any books which has characters called Wonder Wabbit & Za'panda - deserves a mention!

[Aaron King]

Azzarello & Chiang's Dr. 13 backups from Tales of the Unexpected.

[Mr Blinky]

Impulse #50 (team-up with Batman).



Was that the one where Impulse
'solves' the riddle of where Eddie Nigma stashed a bomb, by just searching the entire city in less than a second? Because I believe that's what youngsters refer to as 'pwnage'. :D

Can't believe that no one's mentioned the Lobo Convention Special yet! It's cruel and it's crude, but by God, I laughed so hard that my unborn children wet themselves...

[The Lucky One]

Was that the one where Impulse

No, it's the one where he teams up with Bats to take down the Joker, and Batman finally reveals why he named Bart "Impulse." (Even though apparently both Superman and Bart himself also named Bart "Impulse"... apparently it was a committee decision.)

-D

[Kelson]

No, it's the one where he teams up with Bats to take down the Joker, and Batman finally reveals why he named Bart "Impulse." (Even though apparently both Superman and Bart himself also named Bart "Impulse"... apparently it was a committee decision.)

Batman, Superman, Max, Wally, Bart himself... everyone seems to have been in on it (http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/06/27/naming-impulse/). I think it's safe to say Wolverine wasn't involved, but I wouldn't rule anyone else out!

[davros42]

Even better was the issue of DC Comics Presents where Superman accidentally brought Ambush Bug to the 30th century and had to get help from the Subs to hunt him down.

One of my all time favorite comics. Worth tracking down.

Oh yeah, and World's Funniest.

[Flash's Lightning]

Batman, Superman, Max, Wally, Bart himself... everyone seems to have been in on it (http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/06/27/naming-impulse/). I think it's safe to say Wolverine wasn't involved, but I wouldn't rule anyone else out!

We kept it a secret to protect me from Bart's enemies, but...I am the one who came up with the name Impulse. Now that he's gone, I feel I can come forward.

:D

Seriously though, those Young Justice issues seem popular. Wish they'd trade them so I could read them.

[Scott Shaw!]

Captain Carrot!

Any books which has characters called Wonder Wabbit & Za'panda - deserves a mention!

Then keep your eyes open for CAPTAIN CARROT AND THE FINAL ARC, coming this fall. I'm having a great time working on this three-issue miniseries, and I think you'll dig reading it!

Aloha,

Scott!

[Babylon23]

Anything involving Ambush Bug is worth it, especially the original miniseries.



Then keep your eyes open for CAPTAIN CARROT AND THE FINAL ARC, coming this fall. I'm having a great time working on this three-issue miniseries, and I think you'll dig reading it!

Aloha,

Scott!

I can't wait. Captain Carrot is definitely one of my favourites. Any Frogzilla action in the new book?

[Jade_GL]

Shortly after No Man's Land, there was a great Batman issue where Batman was alone and bored in the Batcave. He kept calling Oracle for status reports on current cases, until Dick Grayson answered back, "Hey, do you mind? We're making out here!" Later he called up Aquaman to help him retrieve the giant penny, which had fallen into an underground lake during the Gotham earthquake. At the end of the issue, Aquaman said, "Hey, next time why not just say you want some company? I'll bring some videos or something." (all quotes from memory)

That was a great issue. It was Gotham Knights #18. A cover is worth a thousand words in this case:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/Jade_GL/bats.jpg

I also agree with that Martian Manhunter issue. I would say that is the funniest comic I have read in my life. There was also a story in a JLA 80 page giant (I believe) that was the JLI crew trying to catch a mouse. Guy Gardiner ends up getting hit on the head and becoming a nice guy, which creeps everyone out. I will have to look that up. It was also very funny.

[marshal99]

argonnes and evanier issues of their taking on all the dc characters was pretty fun! :)

Yeah , but that was almost an independent project since Aragones and Evanier also did the same to Marvel.

Speaking of Aragones & Evanier , their fanboy mini series was also funny.
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/5128HABRCRL._SS500_.jpg


It was an early issue of Batman: Gotham Knights. I wanna say #6 or 8 or 10, one of those. And yeah, it was pretty funny. Especially the part with Bruce talking to the bats in the cave.

"Yes, I know I could just go to bed. But I just slept two days ago!"

-D

That'll be Gotham Knights issue 18. Funny issue about nothing , a slow night for batman.
http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/08206663066.18.GIF

[Kevinroc]

The entire run of Young Justice was a riot. So was Giffen and DeMatteis' Justice League. And Impulse, even after Waid left, was always a comedy book- I don't care what Mark says. He didn't lose his sense of humor until that crapfest Graduation Day.


If anything, I thought Impulse just got weirder after Waid left. The Loebs run was extremely strange. The Dezago run was a little more traditional super hero (at least in comparison to Loebs run) but it was still pretty goofy. I definitely agree that Bart didn't really change until Graduation Day and when he became Kid Flash in Teen Titans.

Man, Bart was the best...

[Froggy]

If anything, I thought Impulse just got weirder after Waid left. The Loebs run was extremely strange. The Dezago run was a little more traditional super hero (at least in comparison to Loebs run) but it was still pretty goofy. I definitely agree that Bart didn't really change until Graduation Day and when he became Kid Flash in Teen Titans.

Man, Bart was the best... *ges back to reading young justice, world without grown ups* good times, good times

[Kevinroc]

*ges back to reading young justice, world without grown ups* good times, good times

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4786/hryoungjustice001051ar.jpg

That says it all.

[marshal99]

All of Lobo's series and mini series are parodies and are meant for laughs.

Hitman/Lobo was pretty funny as well.

http://www.shwiggie.com/hitman/hm-lobo/31.jpg
http://www.shwiggie.com/hitman/hm-lobo/32.jpg

[Froggy]

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4786/hryoungjustice001051ar.jpg

That says it all.

lmao man, that was a great one.....wish i had a scanner so i could show the new genesis ish

[Sandy Hausler]

For me, I loved that issue of Superman where Mxyzptlk brought to life a Badda-Bing Badda Doomsday. That issue was funny.

Any others?


I'd say the entire run of Sugar and Spike.

If you only count superhero stuff (shame on you), the recent Plastic Man run was pretty funny.

Sandy Hausler

[Flash's Lightning]

I'd say the entire run of Sugar and Spike.

If you only count superhero stuff (shame on you), the recent Plastic Man run was pretty funny.

Sandy Hausler

Sure non superhero counts. No clue what Sugar and Spike is though.

[CarolStrick]

Power Girl's cat vs Blue Jay. Classic!

[Schornforce]

Sugar and Spike were two li'l toddler kids who would get into shenanigans, mischief, AND goings-on!

I loved a lot of the titles mentioned. Impulse and Young Justice are faves of mine. I loved World's Funnest and World Without Grownups. DeMatteis and Giffen JLA/I Can't Believe it's Not the Justice League are always amusing.

I loved the Bart/Riddler crossover someone mentioned. That was one of my all-time favorites. That and the scene in "World Without Grown-Ups" which has Bart matching 'wits' with Joker Junior.

[Sandy Hausler]

Sure non superhero counts. No clue what Sugar and Spike is though.

That because DC refuses to run a Sugar and Spike Archive. Boo!

Sandy Hausler

[Thnikkaman]

Supposedly, Sheldon Mayer didn't want his work reprinted ever.

[Zero Hunter]

With the mention of the Legion of Substitue Heroes special the first thing that came to my mind was the Matter Eater Lad spotlight in issue 11 of Giffens "Five Years Latter" run of Legion of Super Heroes. Tenzil Kem deffending Polar Boy in court was pure gold.

[rerun]

Without a doubt "Hitman". I still think the Cat Signal is one of the funniest things I've seen. Add to that Dog Welder, and you can't beat Garth Ennis keeping it PG (or PG-13).

[Baytor]

World's Funnest!

Also the arc of The Demon, where he runs for President...:p

Hitman always made me laugh!

Not DC, but the GLI: Deadpool Summer Fun one shot that came out last week made me laugh...

[rick]

I'd say the entire run of Sugar and Spike.

If you only count superhero stuff (shame on you), the recent Plastic Man run was pretty funny.

Sandy Hausler


Sandy, we're just too old.

Most of these guys never saw an issue of Sugar & Spike, let alone Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, the Inferior 5 or Scooter in their lives.

[marshal99]

The cat that eventually became power girl's pet. ;)

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p187/8oz_soda/cat/JusticeLeagueAmerica037-17.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p187/8oz_soda/cat/JusticeLeagueAmerica037-18.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p187/8oz_soda/cat/JusticeLeagueAmerica037-19.jpg

[Froggy]

Sugar and Spike were two li'l toddler kids who would get into shenanigans, mischief, AND goings-on!

I loved a lot of the titles mentioned. Impulse and Young Justice are faves of mine. I loved World's Funnest and World Without Grownups. DeMatteis and Giffen JLA/I Can't Believe it's Not the Justice League are always amusing.

I loved the Bart/Riddler crossover someone mentioned. That was one of my all-time favorites. That and the scene in "World Without Grown-Ups" which has Bart matching 'wits' with Joker Junior.
Schorn made me smile with this post.........bart vs Joker junior was a great scene....even the oen whith him vs grodd

[marshal99]

Some more JLI goodness. ;)

http://pics.livejournal.com/megaloo13/pic/00053pas

http://pics.livejournal.com/megaloo13/pic/00054gxa

[marshal99]

Some old classic Blue and Gold moment. Booster gold , suave lady charmer ?

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/1385/justiceleagueinternational0081.jpg

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1385/justiceleagueinternational0081.jpg

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1087/justiceleagueinternational82.jpg

[Froggy]

great stuff marshall, especially the first one you had with power girls cat

[marshal99]

Part 2 of the furball that became Power Girl's pet. Wondered where Guy Gardner had send that cat to ? He used the transporter tube to send that mangy cat to the JLE headquarters in Paris and the cat problems continued over there where it unknowingly activated an emergency alarm that send the JLA over to paris and a rematch between guy & that cat.

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p187/8oz_soda/cat/JusticeLeagueEurope13-16.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p187/8oz_soda/cat/JusticeLeagueEurope13-17.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p187/8oz_soda/cat/JusticeLeagueEurope13-18.jpg

[marshal99]

More cat tales. :D

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l117/32oz_soda/JusticeLeagueQuarterly004p61.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l117/32oz_soda/JusticeLeagueQuarterly004p62.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l117/32oz_soda/JusticeLeagueQuarterly004p63.jpg

[Froggy]

I srsly gotta get those JLI issues frommy cousin

[Flash's Lightning]

Those scans had me cracking up.

If JLI was that great, why aren't there more trades?

The world may never know.

[Jack Zodiac]

Why isn't Ostrander and Mandrake's Spectre series collected, or Suicide Squad? Both stellar comic books, underrated and uncollected. I mean, Jesus, they're just now finally collecting O'Neil's The Question.

[earth3luthor]

For me, the funnniest issue ever was the Ambush Bug/Legion of Subs issue of DC Comics Presents. The Bug running around the 30th century Superman museum and thinking it is Disney World. The Subs trying to figure out how to get a stuck-in-the-ground Stone Boy out without snapping his head off. Awesome.

[marshal99]

http://premium1.uploadit.org/saintfish//jla80gnt_mousebusters_17.jpg
http://premium1.uploadit.org/saintfish//jla80gnt_mousebusters_18.jpg
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[marshal99]

The classic Guy Gardner vs Lobo JLI fight.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/Seawolf9/JLI19LoboGuyfight1.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/Seawolf9/JLI19LoboGuyfight2.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/Seawolf9/JLI19LoboGuyfight3.jpg

[marshal99]

Double date with Fire & Ice.
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1441/lastscan33bp.jpg

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1221/lastscan49zq.jpg

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1900/lastscan57dj.jpg

[Froggy]

Scooby and SHaggy!

[marshal99]

More cat tales .... ;)

http://pics.livejournal.com/gordon_r_d/pic/0009xd40

http://pics.livejournal.com/gordon_r_d/pic/0009yw3k

http://pics.livejournal.com/gordon_r_d/pic/0009zdkg

[marshal99]

When the JLA has no crime to fight , what do they do for a break ?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/mlhopkins20/bwthebreakb.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/mlhopkins20/bwthebreakc.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/mlhopkins20/bwthebreakd.jpg

[dancj]

I regonise that but I can't think where from. Was it the Elseworlds 80 Page Giant or one of the Bizzaro books?

Either way that's terrible art

[pendragon]

The Plastic Man mini from Phil Foglio is hillarious.

[founder81]

Where are the cat tales coming from????

[Pink Bat Max]

I don't know if it really qualifies as a 'comedy' issue, but it was funny as well as touching. The Archie Goodwin RIP issue of the Batman Adventures comic.... you know the one after he died, giving som love to Mr. Goodwin? Funny stuff, but emotional too.