Two rules, please. Firstly, ONE year only: no honourable mentions, ties or a "laundry list" of years; secondly, it must be a year in which you were alive and were buying comics (so if you were born in 1970, but read a lot of 1960 comics recently, you can't name 1960 as a favourite year). You must have experienced it.

Obviously, naming a favourite year doesn't mean other years were bad, inferior, etc. Just pick a year in which you had a lot of fun/enjoyment.

Final rule: do elaborate, even if it's only a sentence or paragraph.

Go!

For me, I'm going to pick 1990. I do have many fond memories of that year, depressing though it is to think that I experienced that 27 years ago (I get depressed when someone tells me they were born in 1990 or 1991!).

First up, our host's NAMOR series began. Truth be told, I couldn't buy every issue: there were no comic stores nearby and the newsagent didn't seem interested in doing a regular order. But I read many of them and later tracked them down. I enjoyed the story and the art; I enjoyed the CEO aspect, the focus on the environment, etc. In fact, 1989/90 was a two-year period where I became more environmentally aware (the UK Green Party had had much success in '89). Lots of pro-environment books were published that year; and with Namor also tackling environmental issues, it gave me many fond memories.

It was also a good year for reprints here in the UK. London Editions Magazines had the licence to reprint DC tales. In the spring/summer of 1990, there were four UK titles: SUPERMAN was 48 pages long and reprinted our host's run and JUSTICE LEAGUE tales; BATMAN was also 48-pages long and reprinted vintage Batman tales; DC ACTION reprinted Teen Titans, Animal Man and various origin tales; and ZONES reprinted the darker DC stories such as Swamp Thing.

Whilst Marvel UK was mainly doing licensed comics (e.g. THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS), there were some superhero titles, too.

BATMAN: DIGITAL JUSTICE was published that year. A very different Batman tale, one produced in a unique way (computer-driven). I enjoyed it.

A ROBOCOP comic was published by Marvel.

And in late 1990, I managed to get my hands on BATMAN: YEAR ONE, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and so much else. Late 1990 saw me move near to a proper comic store where I could get everything.

Over to you.

My perspective may be a bit skewed at 50 years ago, but I remember that there were more comics than I could possibly read, and that they were really fun and really good. Other times have had matched up to it... but that one sticks with me.

86 has its share of failures too, particularly New Universe (though I did quite enjoy DP7 from that line.)

It also turned comics really dark. What it wrought in the years that followed was pretty awful, but from a creative standpoint it was a pretty amazing year in comics and I was 16 and 17 years old.

I enjoyed DP7, too, although it was impossible to get hold of (I found some back issues at a car boot sale).

Kids today, eh? Almost every title available via comiXology/Amazon and a comic store on every street corner! We had to hunt for titles on our bicycles! 

A good year for comic releases in Norway; JB's Superman was still running monthly (we were always lagging a bit), and his FF was also around bi-monthly, in addition to Daredevil by Miller/Mazzuchelli and many more. 

But also this was the year we got our first comic book shop were I could buy fresh comics directly from the US. Boy, I spent a lot of money that year (and subsequent years...). 

1989 is also, incidentally, one of my absolute favourite years in music.