COMIC BOOK COVER GALLERY: Some of my favorite individual comics when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s

Let's line up some greatest hits!

Today's gallery gathers the covers of some individual comic books that I just adored when I was a kid. These are books I read and re-read and re-re-read at some point in the period of 1965 through 1977, when I was aged five through seventeen, kindergarten through high school. There are a number of repeats from past galleries, but that's the nature of greatest hits: It can't be a hit if you only play it once. This gallery eschews multi-part storylines (which will be the subject of a future gallery), and skips DC's 100-Page Super Spectaculars, because they were all fave raves, weren't they?

I don't necessarily put these forth as a representative sampling of my all-time favorite individual comic books; it certainly isn't comprehensive, and a few of them might not even make such a list if I ever tried to compile one. But each of them meant a lot to me at some point in time.

BUT! That top image of Detective Comics # 439? "The Night Of The Stalker!" (written by Steve Englehart with Vin and Sal Amendola) remains my all-time favorite Batman story (as seen in this Top 5 List), and it's my # 1 comic book story overall. Classic, man, and I will never get tired of it. We'll see more Englehart-written Batman stories when Comic Book Cover Gallery casts its big, bright Bat-signal on multiple-part storylines.

For now: Some single-issue favorites. Hey kids! COMICS!

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