Re: What were: the best Marvel titles of the 80's?
I jumped in on comics about the time Rogue joined the X-Men, and I really enjoyed the title. I quit reading about the time various X-characters started going through the Siege Perilous and being reborn/recreated/redefined. Blah. And don't even get me started on X-Factor and the Return of Jean Grey....
I also enjoyed Alpha Flight--the team that put the 'fun' in 'dysfunctional'--and the Avengers. The 'Masters of Evil take over Avengers Mansion' storyline was fantastic, as was follow-up story arc into Hades and Olympus. I started to lose interest about the time that they killed off Marrina--and they didn't even have the decency to kill her off in her own title (Alpha Flight).
The West Coast Avengers was a pretty good title, too, until the whole 'Hawkeye can't trust Mockingbird because she killed a bad guy, when Hawkleye clearly killed a bad guy himself in the limited series where he met Mockingbird in the first place' storyline. That was about the same time Hank Pym started showing up regularly in the title, and that was a big drop-off for me.
The New Mutants was pretty good, too, until the arrival of Warlock. I didn't mind the story--it was actually pretty interesting. But the art was atrocious.
Alas, I never really got introduced to DC in those days.