Notable Collaborators: Paul Neary, Kieron Dwyer, Mark BrightĪt any other company, and in any other era, Mark Gruenwald’s ten-year run as the writer of Captain America would stand out as the remarkable achievement that it is. Mark Gruenwald’s Captain America Image: Mike Zeck, Klaus Janson/Marvel ComicsĬaptain America #307 - 443, July, 1985 - September, 1995

If you’re overwhelmed by lists of shorter series to read, and just want to settle down with one epic yarn, here are six Marvel long runs to dive into.

This isn’t meant to minimize the importance of artists in a comic’s storytelling! It’s just that it’s a whole lot easier to write 40 issues of a comic than it does to draw them, so the writer is usually the one who sticks around for the duration.

If you look at manga, where Eichiro Oda has knocked out almost a thousand weekly chapters of One Piece, the scale of what counts as “long” is a very different thing.Īt Marvel or DC, though, where the turnover is usually a whole lot higher, it’s probably fair to define it as something that goes at least 40 issues, give or take a fil-in here and there, with at least one member of the creative team being persistent on the book throughout - usually the writer. Well, it’s a pretty arbitrary definition I’ve put together that only really applies to American superhero comics.

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