Top 10 Accidental Comic Book Discoveries

[Susano]

Comic books are, like any entertainment industry, one built around hype. We may not always admit it, but comic book companies are all about promoting the next Watchmen, the next Sandman, just as much as Hollywood is searching for that next Godfather, that next Star Wars.

Funny thing about success is that sometimes it happens to people who weren’t looking for it, or at least not in the way they thought. Like penicillin for pages and panels, here are the Top 10 Accidental Comic Book Discoveries:

http://www.comicbookjournal.net/top-10-accidental-comic-book-discoveries/

[The Monster]

IMO, Maus I and II justify the existence of the graphic novel medium all by themselves. Nothing else comes close.

[Weldun]

I'm surprised Usagi Yojimbo isn't up there. Oh, and thanks for helping us all enjoy this, Susano. (You must spread some rep around, yadda yadda...)

[Susano]

I'm surprised Usagi Yojimbo isn't up there. Oh, and thanks for helping us all enjoy this, Susano. (You must spread some rep around, yadda yadda...)

Wow... yeah, UY really needs to be on that list.

[CrosshairCollie]

I was expecting it to be about discoveries in comic book universes, like discovering Pym Particles or something ...

[wcw43921]

Kudos to them for putting Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the number-one spot. Two writer/artists with just about nothing in the way of resources take a chance on their own creations and hit it big.

I still have the first issue. It's likely the most valuable thing in my collection--not that I'd ever sell it. I'd leave it to my nephews (or nieces), or donate it to the Smithsonian, or something like that. But I'm keeping it until I no longer want it--in other words, until the day I die.

[Brandi]

IMO, Maus I and II justify the existence of the graphic novel medium all by themselves. Nothing else comes close.

Not even A Contract With God?