What is the best story ever?

[mcgaffer]

I want to see what is the best story ever produced by Marvel, so let me know your pick. I had a few that i liked including Infinity Gauntlet, Secret Wars ( the original one) and i really enjoyed Mutant Massacre but im afraid for the grand scale of the story, the enormity of it and the fact Marvel managed to make this perhaps the longest most enjoyable story i have to give my vote to The Phoenix Saga ( the first one not the countless thousands that followed)

[Polavok]

I agree with you... for me the greatest stories are from my youth. I LOVED The Dark Phoenix Saga and Secret Wars which introduced me to Marvel characters outside the X-Men :-).

Of the newer stories (just started reading comics again) i really liked the Grant Morrison run on new X-Men, but a lot of people will probably smack my head for that one :-(

[leestaunton]

"Days of future past" , "The death of Jean DeWolfe" and "Hulk Future Imperfect" are a few of my favourites.

Strangely two of them involve seeing Wolverines skeleton!

[The Shadow]

Marvels, Squadron Supreme, Dark Phoenix, X-Men: God Loves Man Kills, Days of Futures Past, Daredevil: Born Again.

Those are some of the ones i think should be on any list.

[DDM]

X-Men:

The Dark Phoenix Saga
Days of Future Past
The Mutant Massacre
The Demon Bear Saga (The New Mutants)

Avengers:

The Kree-Skrull War
The Celestial Madonna
The Korvac Saga

Fantastic Four:

Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne Volume #1-4 (with more on the way)

Thor:

Thor Visionaries: Walt Simonson Volume #1-3

Hulk:

Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David

[The Shadow]

X-Men:

The Dark Phoenix Saga
Days of Future Past
The Mutant Massacre
The Demon Bear Saga (The New Mutants)

Avengers:

The Kree-Skrull War
The Celestial Madonna
The Korvac Saga

Fantastic Four:

Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne Volume #1-4 (with more on the way)

Thor:

Thor Visionaries: Walt Simonson Volume #1-3

Hulk:

Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David
Yeah that's a great list too!

[The Adventurer]

"Best story ever?" No such beast as it's all subjective.

My favorite Marvel story is the Earth X Trillogy, but I can tell you it's not everyone's cup of tea.

[The Mirrorball Man]

My favorite Marvel story arc is "Daredevil - Born Again".

[agrich]

Jim Starlin's original Magus series in Warlock - Strange Tales 178-181, Warlock 9-11. Comics don't get any better.

[DDM]

Thanos, Adam Warlock, Moondragon, Pip the Troll, Gamora, Drax:

Iron Man #54, 55
Captain Marvel #25-34
Marvel Graphic Novel #1: The Death of Captain Marvel
(all can be found in The Life & Death of Captain Marvel TPB)
Strange Tales #178-181
Warlock #9-15
Avengers Annual #7 (part 1), Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2 (part 2)
Thanos Quest #1-2
Infinity Gauntlet #1-6
Warlock & the Infinity Watch #1-12
Infinity Abyss #1-6
Thanos #1-6

Avengers:

Avengers Forever #1-12 (or the Avengers Forever TPB)
Avengers Infinity #1-4

[TimmyTony]

Sins Past- (KIDDING!!!!! :D

[Jake V]

http://www.witz.org/images/popemarvel.jpg

[Dark Soul # 7]

Spider-man
More Classic stories: The death of Jean DeWolfe, The Night Gwen Stacy died, If this be my Destiny

Newer ones: A death in the Family, Marvel Knights: Spider-man #1-12, Fusion(PP:SMvol2#30-32)

[CireNagoh]

The 1st death of Elektra. that was my favorite story EVER.

Gooood stuff there

[Turd_Ferguson]

Earth X (not the other two though)
Joe Kelly's Deadpool
Joe Casey's Uncanny X-Men


If we're moving outside of Marvel, I'd add two other Joe Casey stories.
Automatic Kafka
Wildcats 3.0

[bitplayer]

Simonson's work on thor is probably my favorite all time marvel story.

[Thanos]

My favorite story ever is:

Thanos Quest (Infinity Gauntlet prelude)

- Thanos

[Babylon23]

It's impossible for me to narrow it down to one story. However, i'd consider Fantastic Four 1-100 some of the finest comics ever produced. Of that run, "The Coming of Galactus" in FF 48-50 stands out as the high point.

Some personal favourites include:
Avengers: Under Siege & the Kree-Skrull War
Spider-Man: The night Gwen Stacey Died, Kraven's Last Hunt & the Death of Jean Dewolf
X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Part.
Thor: The Origin of Galactus & Ragnarok
Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle & Armour Wars
Captain America: Baron Blood
Daredevil: Born Again, Roulette & the Elektra Saga

[darkchylde7]

Inferno (what i've read of it)
Strange (the recent mini-series)
1602

and plenty of others that i cant think of right now :p