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Recently CBR.com posted the results<\/span><\/strong> of a poll of comic book readers<\/strong> to determine the top 100 Marvel and DC characters<\/strong>.\u00a0 Using just their list of the top 50<\/strong> for each company, I present my top 10<\/strong>…<\/p>\n 10.\u00a0 Namor<\/strong> – 539 points (7 first place votes):\u00a0 There was a summer <\/strong>when I was a kid in elementary school<\/strong> that I thought that Namor<\/strong> was the coolest cat 09.\u00a0 Black Widow<\/strong> (Natasha Romanova)- 452 points (3 first place votes):\u00a0 I’ve read fewer stories with the Black Widow<\/strong> than any of the other characters in my top ten<\/strong>, but I like this character.\u00a0 The first time I really noticed her potential was in a black and white magazine that featured her in a story drawn by Paul Gulacy<\/strong>.\u00a0 Around the same time, Frank Miller<\/strong> put her to good use in Daredevil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 08.\u00a0 Green Arrow<\/strong> (Oliver Queen) – 1495 (17 first place votes).\u00a0 Denny O’Neil <\/strong>and Neal Adams, Mike Grell, Trevor Von Eden<\/strong> and Jock<\/strong> all have worked their riffs on the Green Arrow<\/strong>.\u00a0 I’ve enjoyed all versions… especially those without the trick arrows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 07.\u00a0 Luke Cage<\/strong> – 633 points (3 first place votes):\u00a0 I can still remember picking the first issue of Luke Cage: Hero for Hire<\/strong> off the newsstands, reading it and thinking, yeah, this is how it would in real life if someone got super-powers. \u00a0 When I was in junior high I had a “shop” class and one of the things we had to create were business cards.\u00a0 It had to be for a business that wasn’t real and we couldn’t use our own names.\u00a0 My card read “Blackjack Joey – Hero for Hire.”<\/strong> So you can see the influence that Luke Cage<\/strong> had on me.\u00a0 Bonus points to anyone who can figure out where Blackjack Joey<\/strong> came from.<\/p>\n 06.\u00a0 Question<\/strong> (Vic Sage) – 382 points (6 first place votes)\u00a0 Although I never read the original Question<\/strong> stories, I really dug the Denny O’Neil \/ Denys Cowan \/ Rick Magyar<\/strong> stories.\u00a0 Add in the covers by Bill Sienkiewicz<\/strong> and you have a top ten character.<\/p>\n 05.\u00a0 The Punisher <\/strong>(Frank Castle) – 995 (17 first place votes)\u00a0 I’m talking about the real<\/em> Punisher<\/strong>.\u00a0 You know the one who appeared in the mini-series and graphic novels by Steven Grant, Mike Zeck<\/strong> and John Beatty<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can throw in a bit of Miller <\/strong>and Romita Jr’s<\/strong> riffs, but count me out when the Punisher<\/strong> becomes a substitute teacher or starts hanging out with Microchip<\/strong> or any other sidekick.<\/p>\n 04.\u00a0 Daredevil<\/strong> – 2280 points (71 first place votes):\u00a0 If Frank Miller<\/strong> wrote Daredevil<\/strong> and either he or David Mazzucchelli <\/strong>drew the series, I’d be a lifetime subscriber.<\/p>\n 03.\u00a0 Wolverine<\/strong> – 2728 points (54 first place votes)\u00a0 Wolverine<\/strong> during Claremont, Byrne and Austin’s<\/strong> run was the coolest character ever.\u00a0 His biggest fault was he became too popular and was everywhere.\u00a0 Miller’s<\/strong> mini-series was cool.\u00a0 Chaykin<\/strong> has done some neat stuff with Wolverine<\/strong> as well.\u00a0 Unfortunately, too many people tried to work their magic on Logan<\/strong> and I lost interest.\u00a0 I’d still return to read stories about the runt if the right creator took the reins.<\/p>\n 02.\u00a0 Nick Fury<\/strong> – 619 points (7 first place votes):\u00a0 I remember buying an issue of Nick Fury: Agent of Shield <\/strong>off the stands when I was elementary school.\u00a0 I’d never seen a comic that looked so cool.\u00a0 Steranko<\/strong> 01.\u00a0 Batman<\/strong> (Bruce Wayne) – 6585 points (313 first place votes)\u00a0 It doesn’t matter who draws Batman [Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, Jim Aparo, Frank Miller<\/strong>, etc.], what kind of stories [funny, serious, set in any time period or genre], Batman<\/strong> works.\u00a0 That has to make him the #1 character<\/strong>… at least in my book.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently CBR.com posted the results of a poll of comic book readers to determine the top 100 Marvel and 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swimming.\u00a0 He looked like Spock<\/strong>, was a Prince<\/strong>, could breathe on land and sea.\u00a0 Yeah, Namor <\/strong>was the man.<\/p>\nwas<\/del> is amazing.\u00a0 When I attended my first comic convention<\/strong>, the first items I purchased were a complete run<\/strong> of Steranko’s Nick Fury<\/strong> comics [and an issue of his publication, MediaScene<\/strong>].\u00a0 Someone find a way to get Steranko<\/strong> to do covers for a Gulacy<\/strong> drawn, Doug Moench <\/strong>written Nick Fury <\/strong>series set in the 1960’s<\/strong>.\u00a0 The time is right.<\/p>\n