In no particular order…
CAPTAIN AMERICA Vol. 3: (Reprinting issues #101-113)
This volume brings to a close the Silver Age Captain America. Kirby and Lee had just wrapped up the storyline that built to #100, so issue #101 is a fresh start. This is Jack Kirby at the top of his game, illustrating nine consecutive issues including the Red Skull and a modern-day retelling of Cap’s origin. This segues nicely into Steranko’s three-issue run, interrupted only for an “Album Issue” drawn by Kirby. Even though #113 was cover-dated May 1969, Captain America walked in to the ‘70s at the end of this issue with “a secret identity once more!”
X-MEN Vol. 6: (Reprinting issues #54-66)
Much is made (and rightly so) of the Thomas/Adams/Palmer run, but this volume contains the last Silver Age arc of stories of the Silver Age, including writers Arnold Drake, Linda Fite, and Denny O’Neil as well as pencilers Don Heck, Werner Roth and Sal Buscema. Like MMW Captain America Vol. 3, this volume brings the Silver age to a close for the X-Men.
AVENGERS Vol 10: (Reprinting issues #89-100)
Another highly lauded series of issues by Thomas and Adams, but the Kree/Skrull War story is only a part of the story arc which begins with “Thje Only Good Alien…” in #89 and does not truly conclude until everyone who had ever been an Avenger is brought together (by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith) in #100.
SPIDER-MAN Vol. 8: (Reprinting issues #68-77))
The “Stone Tablet Saga” in its entirety. ‘Nuff said? Not quite. Although the threat of the tablet doesn’t kick into high gear until #73 and is nullified in #75, it begins in #68 and takes until #77 to wrap up all the dangling plot threads. As an added bonus, Ross Andru’s Spider-Man tryout from Marvel Super-Heroes #14 (Oct 1969). My only selection wholly within the Silver Age.
WARLOCK Vol. 2: (Reprinting Strange Tales # 178-181, Warlock #9-15, etc.)
My only selection wholly outside the Silver Age. I consider this to be the “New Testament” of “Jesus Christ, Super-Hero” (volume one being the “Old Testament”). By Jim Starlin (mostly).
Maybe next time I’ll list my five favorite volumes (rather than the five best).
Or maybe I’ll do the DC Archives.
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