The Dark Knight Returns
Crisis on Infinite Earths-maxi series
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
All-Star Superman-maxi series
Kingdom Come

I wanna fit in Golden Age, Killing Joke,the Batman run where the Joker had those Joker-fish, Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin did the art, maybe O'Neil wrote(can't remember off-hand) and several others, but its only 5 so...

1. Miligan's "Shade the Changing Man"
2. Moore's "Swamp Thing"
3. Gaiman's "Sandman"
4. Ostrander's "Suicide Squad"
5. Levitz's "Legion of Super-Heroes"

Honourable Mention to Milligan's "Human Target"

1. Crisis On Infinite Earths by by Marv Wolfman and George Perez
2. The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
3. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
4. Kingdom Come by Alex Ross and Mark Waid
5. The Golden Age by James Robinson and Paul Smith

so happy to see that the original Crisis have still soo many fans

Watchmen
Ronin
Swamp Thing (Moore's run is basically one big arc, at least through the end of American Gothic)
Sandman
Preacher

I'm probably overlooking something criminally good. Really wanted to put Rock of Ages or Morrison's Animal Man run on there, but they just miss out.

Does the Watchmen Saturday Morning Cartoon Show count?

Aw man, I ought to put New Frontier up there... but what to bump?

1. All-Star Superman
2. Adam Strange: Planet Heist
3. JSA: Black Reign
4. JSA: Liberty Files
5. Batman - there are actually a few, Long Halloween, Year One, and the Dark Knight

5 is hard to narrow it down to, but I went with

1. The New Frontier
Fantastic Re-Telling of the JLA/DC universe, with spot on characterizations
2. Crisis on infinite Earths
The best Event book. It still shapes the DC universe
3. Batman Year 1
The Reason I like batman. Batman to me doesn't make sense fighting the likes of Darksied. To me this is Batman.
4. Kingdom Come
Dc characters are more like Gods then men and this Series Highlights that and gives each character a shining example of that.
5. Green Lantern/Green Arrow Denny O’Neil, Neal Adams
If you haven't read these I HIGHLY recommend them.

There were a few books on here that surprised me and there is so much Batman on these lists!!! I also find that it's way harder to narrow it down to just 5 DC stories as opposed to 5 Marvel Stories.

I am surprised that the the Titans' Judas Contract did not get more votes. First appearance of Nightwing, the utter breakdown of Terra, the unbelievble art from Perez...

Green Arrow: Quiver (My favourite character is brought back!)
Batman: Hush
Identity Crisis
Birds of Prey: Sensei and Student
Day of Vengeance or Villains United...I switch back and forth on which one is better.

I'd rate highty the first 10-20 issues of that run, but I actually though Judas Contract was anticlimactic compared to the first year of the series.

Really? I just loved the way Perez was able to illustrate the breakdown of Terra's psyche during those four books.

I think that might have a lot to do with just how many truly great comics DC has put out. Top 5 is a pretty exclusive club.