And I see a lot of "most influencial" and "comics that changed history" lists online, and these are not those.  To ge honest, I considered myself pretty knowledgable about comics but there are tons on here that I have not read -- they are definitely hidden to me!  

To me this is like a "pitch" meeting -- your chance to brag about an awesome issue that someone else out there may never heard of.  Awesome books so far!!

The weekly meetings I mentioned with my friend have had a theme of "If you only had one issue to give to someone about a character..." for the past few weeks. LSH #283 was on my list, as was Ghost Rider #68 (Thank you, Matthew!) I hadn't thought of Doctor Strange #56, but that's an excellent example! Well done, Greg!

Ronald, I've long had an affinity for "faceless" characters as well. Mine probably began with Dr. Fate, but Wildfire was certainly an early favorite. You really should check out more of the Legion. Paul Levitz and Gerry Conway's runs are very Marvel-flavored, and the mental breakdown Levitz wrote for Brainiac Five presaged Hank Pym's by a good many years*. That storyline culminated in issues #250 and #251 during a period when Wildfire had been elected team leader. He has some good moments in those issues as I recall. If you want to check out more about Wildfire, those might be a good place to start.

The story is a direct follow-up to the previously cited SLSH #239 by Starlin. I don't know that I'd categorize these issues as "hidden," but  I don't see them discussed often, and they are worthwhile, so I'll go ahead and include their covers here as well. 

The interior art on these is by "Steve Apollo," a pseudonym of Jim Starlin's, who expected them to appear in one of DC's tabloid-sized editions and was not happy when the story was slated into the regular run of the book and pages were cut as a result.

* Creating murderous A.I.'s who regard you as their father and go on to become evil arch-enemies will do that to you. (Something else Brainy did before Pym, come to think of it...) 

I'd always heard the basics of the behind the scenes, but now with the GCD I could investigate a little further.  I see that Starlin's friend Al Milgrom (later to be the fan-favorite editor of MARVEL FANFARE) was the editor on #239, while Jack C. Harris was the editor of #250 & 251.  Obviously, he did not have the same ideas about what makes a good comic and I wonder if he was forced to accept the Starlin follow-up that was probably already in production.

Or, as I hear about movie studios sometimes, a new guy is put in charge and he sometimes sabotages the projects that were put into production by his predecessor.  (Sorry to criticize issues that you like, Brian.  It's just that the whole thing has made me sad for 40 years.)

No worries on knocking my recommendations. "I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us." - Surak, father of Vulcan philosophy.

Dr. Fate! Another faceless favorite. 

Thanks very much for the recommendation. I'll put that on the list. 

Roughly 95% of my recent comic book buying has been back issues and collections - I just picked up The Falcon four-issue limited series from 1983 and can't wait to read that. 

I did read the Mark Farmer/Alan Davis two-issue Superboy's Legion and loved it. And there was a fun issue of DC Comics Presents starring Superman and the Legion of Substitute Heroes (fighting Ambush Bug) that was a lot of fun.

Now I'm starting to wonder how I never read LOSH regularly...hm...   

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Seeing Adams' rendition of Julie Adams was probably worth the cost of the issue alone... I can only guess how curvy Art made her look on the page :-)