Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk together for the first time; the Battle of New York.
A 1970s paranoid thriller inside a superhero film; the elevator fight.
Burton's Gotham, Nicholson's Joker and the film that made superheroes dark.
A boy genius and an inflatable healthcare robot in San Fransokyo.
A family of retired superheroes in suburbia; Pixar does a Bond film.
The origin film that made the caped crusader plausible again.
The Kingpin learns Daredevil's identity and takes everything apart; Miller and Mazzucchelli.
A 55-year-old Batman comes out of retirement to fight Superman; Frank Miller's 1986 reinvention.
Bruce Wayne's first year and Jim Gordon's; Miller and Mazzucchelli's crime comic.
Superman has a year to live and does twelve impossible things; Morrison and Quitely.
A dystopian 2013 where Sentinels rule and Kitty Pryde goes back to stop it; Claremont and Byrne.
An ageing Justice League returns to stop a new generation of reckless heroes; Alex Ross's paintings.
Kraven buries Spider-Man alive and takes his place; the darkest Spider-Man story.
A teenager gets his father's powers and learns what his father is; Kirkman's fifteen-year saga.
The Marvel universe seen from a photographer on the pavement; Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.
Retired vigilantes in a 1985 with Nixon still president; the graphic novel that made comics grow up.
The Joker's possible origin and Barbara Gordon shot; one bad day.
A co-operative card game where each hero deck plays completely differently.
Gear drops that change how a fighter looks and hits, with Brainiac arriving over an Earth already broken.
A Superman who runs the world after losing Metropolis, fought over in the engine NetherRealm built for Mortal Kombat.
Harlem at Christmas, venom powers and a shorter story told a good deal better.
The Batmobile and Gotham on the night it is evacuated; Rocksteady closes the trilogy.
Peter and Miles, the symbiote and Venom across two boroughs.
Web-swinging through Manhattan done right; Insomniac's Peter Parker.
One night in the asylum with the Joker loose; the combat every action game borrowed.
A walled prison district as an open world; the best superhero game.
Infobox
