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Who are the most prominent Marvel and DC characters to have never had a solo series?

tommysheroestommysheroes Posts: 174
edited April 2015 in Comics Talk Community - The On Topic Forum
Ongoing and limited series count. I am just curious because it feels like EVERYONE has had one but I am sure someone of reasonable prominence has not.
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    DoctorDoomDoctorDoom Posts: 2,586
    Has Cyborg, of DC Comics, ever had a mini?
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    mwhitt80mwhitt80 Posts: 4,617
    The answers would almost have to be villians right? Most prominent heroes have had at least a mini.
    Maybe some the teen titans or doom patrol or lesser justice leaguers from dc.
    There has probably been some lesser avengers without a solo book; I doubt there has been a prominent xman (maybe prof. Xavier) that hasn't had one.
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    RickMRickM Posts: 407
    Has there ever been a Galactus series?
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    rebisrebis Posts: 1,820
    DoctorDoom said:

    Has Cyborg, of DC Comics, ever had a mini?

    Does this count?
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    HexHex Posts: 944
    Pretty sure Marvel's Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) has never had a solo series. As a founding member of the Avengers, that is a real shame.
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    BrackBrack Posts: 868
    edited March 2015
    Hex said:

    Pretty sure Marvel's Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) has never had a solo series. As a founding member of the Avengers, that is a real shame.

    Yes, she's only had shared comics with Ant-Man.

    Even more fundamental than that though, Invisible Woman has never had a solo series. Sue had a Captain Universe one shot, but not a series. She had to share her "Before the Fantastic Four" mini with her brother, whereas Reed and Ben got their own individual ones. Reed has not had one as Mr Fantastic though.

    Looking at Avengers from classic line-ups and bearing in mind Dr Druid had a solo series, so the bar is pretty low to get one, these folks also missed out:

    Swordsman
    Moondragon
    Mantis
    Starfox (he probably didn't want to get mixed up with Eros Comix)
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    HexHex Posts: 944
    Brack said:

    Even more fundamental than that though, Invisible Woman has never had a solo series.

    whoa... that. sucks.
    I would totally buy the Hell out of an Invisible Woman title.
    Sue is my daughter's favourite character!
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    HexHex Posts: 944
    Just out of curiosity; has there ever been a solo issue for J Jonah Jameson?
    one-shot, or mini-series, or "marvel premier" type one-off?
    I'de totally buy a JJJ issue too.
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    bralinatorbralinator Posts: 5,967
    edited March 2015
    tommysheroes said:

    Ongoing and limited series count. I am just curious because it feels like EVERYONE has had one but I am sure someone of reasonable prominence has not.

    I'd like to see a Felicia Hardy (Black Cat) series

    RickM said:

    Has there ever been a Galactus series?

    Just this one shot that I know of. It is awesome though...


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    Hex said:

    Just out of curiosity; has there ever been a solo issue for J Jonah Jameson?
    one-shot, or mini-series, or "marvel premier" type one-off?
    I'de totally buy a JJJ issue too.

    Not that I know of, but could you imagine one of those 8 minute Marvel One Shots starring J. K. Simmons??
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    nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,741
    bralinator said:

    I'd like to see a Felicia Hardy (Black Cat) series.

    Well, this one was decent.
    image

    And this one was pretty darn good.
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    bralinatorbralinator Posts: 5,967
    nweathington said:

    bralinator said:

    I'd like to see a Felicia Hardy (Black Cat) series.

    Well, this one was decent.
    image

    And this one was pretty darn good.
    image
    Yes. I remembered those after I posted. Thanks Eric.
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    bats00bats00 Posts: 275
    Let's see..off the top of my head:

    Rage (from Avengers and New Warriors)
    most of the New Mutants (except for Magik and Warlock)
    Jason Todd (are we counting Red Hood and the Outsiders or is that more a team book)
    Hawk and Dove (again..does this count or no?)
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    nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,741
    bats00 said:

    Hawk and Dove (again..does this count or no?)

    Hawk without Dove (or vice versa) kind of defeats the point. Like the song says, you can't have one without the other.
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    MattMatt Posts: 4,457
    bralinator said:

    nweathington said:

    bralinator said:

    I'd like to see a Felicia Hardy (Black Cat) series.

    Well, this one was decent.
    image

    And this one was pretty darn good.
    image
    Yes. I remembered those after I posted. Thanks Eric.
    There's another mini-series from the 90s. She was wearing the naval cut, furless outfit that's her 2nd crappiest costume.

    M
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    playdohsrepublicplaydohsrepublic Posts: 1,377
    nweathington said:

    bats00 said:

    Hawk and Dove (again..does this count or no?)

    Hawk without Dove (or vice versa) kind of defeats the point. Like the song says, you can't have one without the other.
    At least not without Monarch/Extant BS.
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    playdohsrepublicplaydohsrepublic Posts: 1,377
    edited March 2015
    Hex said:

    Brack said:

    Even more fundamental than that though, Invisible Woman has never had a solo series.

    whoa... that. sucks.
    I would totally buy the Hell out of an Invisible Woman title.
    Sue is my daughter's favourite character!
    Here is a pretty recent CBR Comic Book Legends Revealed that talks about the Invisible Woman mini that very nearly was.

    I don't recall Jean Grey having a solo series, just two with Cyclops. And I'm probably wrong about this but I can't think of any on the Inhuman royal family as having solo minis.
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    ctowner1ctowner1 Posts: 481
    Hex said:

    Brack said:

    Even more fundamental than that though, Invisible Woman has never had a solo series.

    whoa... that. sucks.
    I would totally buy the Hell out of an Invisible Woman title.
    Sue is my daughter's favourite character!
    Well, aside from sue, i don't think Reed has ever had a solo series, either, right?

    e
    L nny
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    luckymustardluckymustard Posts: 927
    Since superhero wasn't specified I immediately thought of Amanda Waller. Her name has been in only one title, and after the colon at that, "Suicide Squad: Amanda Waller", and it was a one-shot.
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    Evening639Evening639 Posts: 368
    bats00 said:


    most of the New Mutants (except for Magik and Warlock)

    I can't believe I never knew that Warlock had his own series. And written by Louise Simonson, no less! Is it any good?

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    BrackBrack Posts: 868
    ctowner1 said:

    Hex said:

    Brack said:

    Even more fundamental than that though, Invisible Woman has never had a solo series.

    whoa... that. sucks.
    I would totally buy the Hell out of an Invisible Woman title.
    Sue is my daughter's favourite character!
    Well, aside from sue, i don't think Reed has ever had a solo series, either, right?

    e
    L nny
    He had a "Before the Fantastic Four" mini-series.
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    DoctorDoomDoctorDoom Posts: 2,586
    bralinator said:

    tommysheroes said:

    Ongoing and limited series count. I am just curious because it feels like EVERYONE has had one but I am sure someone of reasonable prominence has not.

    I'd like to see a Felicia Hardy (Black Cat) series

    RickM said:

    Has there ever been a Galactus series?

    Just this one shot that I know of. It is awesome though...


    image
    Hex said:

    Just out of curiosity; has there ever been a solo issue for J Jonah Jameson?
    one-shot, or mini-series, or "marvel premier" type one-off?
    I'de totally buy a JJJ issue too.

    Not that I know of, but could you imagine one of those 8 minute Marvel One Shots starring J. K. Simmons??
    He also had the Galactus: the Devourer mini.

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    HexHex Posts: 944
    edited March 2015
    Evening639 said:

    I can't believe I never knew that Warlock had his own series. And written by Louise Simonson, no less! Is it any good?

    I can't remember the specifics about the storyline in the short-lived Warlock series, but I do remember enjoying the Pasqual Ferry artwork!

    image
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    Chuck_MelvilleChuck_Melville Posts: 3,003
    Hex said:

    Pretty sure Marvel's Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) has never had a solo series. As a founding member of the Avengers, that is a real shame.

    The most she had was her own strip as a back-up to the regular Giant-Man & The Wasp series in Tales To Astonish, back in the day... but it was sporadic and was usually along the lines of her telling one of those monster stories that used to run in the mag previous to the Marvel Era.
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    DoctorDoomDoctorDoom Posts: 2,586
    bats00 said:

    Let's see..off the top of my head:

    Rage (from Avengers and New Warriors)
    most of the New Mutants (except for Magik and Warlock)
    Jason Todd (are we counting Red Hood and the Outsiders or is that more a team book)
    Hawk and Dove (again..does this count or no?)

    I feel like Jason had a mini before the Nu52, detailing his trials with Talia and other stuff.
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    bats00bats00 Posts: 275
    Hex said:

    Evening639 said:

    I can't believe I never knew that Warlock had his own series. And written by Louise Simonson, no less! Is it any good?

    I can't remember the specifics about the storyline in the short-lived Warlock series, but I do remember enjoying the Pasqual Ferry artwork!

    image
    I remember it being fun...nothing spectacular but fun. He ends up having a techno-organic monkey so that was fun.
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    TheOriginalGManTheOriginalGMan Posts: 1,763
    Plus there was this series from the 1970s. I've got a few issues of it in my collection:

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    rebisrebis Posts: 1,820
    Warlock from New Mutants and Adam Warlock are two very different characters.
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    TheOriginalGManTheOriginalGMan Posts: 1,763
    Doh! My bad ... only skimmed through the thread.
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    rebisrebis Posts: 1,820
    Totally understandable. I have a hard time keeping all the various Spider-Women and Scarcrows straight.
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    Chuck_MelvilleChuck_Melville Posts: 3,003
    rebis said:

    Totally understandable. I have a hard time keeping all the various Spider-Women and Scarcrows straight.

    Not to mention the Iron Men, Spider-Men, Captain Americas, Thors, Ms Marvels and Captain Marvels.

    Thank God DC has never had problems like that!
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