COMIC BOOK COVER GALLERY: Multi-part stories I enjoyed in the '60s and '70s

 

Fresh off celebrations of some of my favorite individual comic book issues and some cherished two-part stories, we turn to longer-form storytelling, epics running three chapters or more.

For this exercise, I tried to differentiate between specific stories related in serial form and overall continuities and threads that continue from issue to issue. This gallery is concerned only with the former category. I am not under oath at any point in these proceedings.

And there were a lot of fine serials to choose from. I made a point to conclude with writer Steve Englehart's 1970s run on Detective Comics, an eight-part adventure that is not only my all-time favorite Batman tale, but my top pick among any comics storyline I've ever read.

We'll be sticking exclusively to the '60s-'80s era of acquisition I've established for these galleries. Today's selection includes books I bought new, back issues I acquired after the fact (but within the timeline), and B-stock contraband originally purchased without their covers. As always: These aren't actual photos of comics in my collection. But I did have each and every one of 'em at some point in time.

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