So what are your top 5 Marvel stories? Here are mine:

1. Inhumans by Jae Lee and Paul Jenkins
2. Infinity Gauntlet by Starlin
3. Dr. Strange "the Oath" by Vaughn
4. Riot at Xaviers! by Morrison
5. Marvel Boy by Morrison

There's also a list in the DC category. Thanks!

1. Dark Phoenix Saga (for me, from Uncanny X-Men 94 to 137) Claremont before he became a hack of himself and Byrne when he cared. The story just kept going in unanticipated directions and really developed the characters.

2. Avengers Korvac Saga- the Avengers story that showcased them as the premier team of Marvel, showed both cosmic and regular heroes where they earned that name.

3. Squadron Supreme- maybe the best Justice League story ever. Gruenwald's crown jewel.

4. Infinity Gauntlet (including the Silver Surfer run and Thanos 2 issue series leading up to Infinity Gauntlet). Great cosmic level story that kept turning it up to 11, then 12 then 13 (ala Spinal Tap)

5. Daredevil, the Frank Miller run. A truly bold new take on storytelling for Marvel.

Intro, Life and Death of Elektra - Daredevil 168-181

1st Secret Wars - Secret Wars 1-12 mini series

Kree/Skrull war - Avengers 89-97

1st appearances of Surfer and Galactus - Fantastic Four 48-50

Into of Firelord and Team up of Galactus with Thor & Hercules - Thor 225-228

Dark Phoenix saga - X-Men 132-137

These are some of my favorite stories in Marvel.

Tough picks, but off the top of my head:

Squadron Supreme (original limited series)
X-men: God Loves, Man Kills
Marvels
The Sentry (original Paul Jenkins miniseries)
The Ultimates, volume 1

Everyone always talks about the original Squadron Supreme, I def. got to pick that up. Ultimates Vol 1 almost made my list but Marvel Boy kicked it out of there.

So much to choose from... 47 years ... head hurts.
but off the top of it....
Avengers/Defenders War
Secret War 1
Simonson's Thor
Nocenti's Daredevil Run
Miller's 1st Daredevil Run
Dark Pheonix Sage
Alias
1st 50 issues or so of Thunderbolts
Ghost Rider2099 after Velez started writing it
Rob Liefield's Captain America (just kidding)

Is that more than 5? Oops, sorry.

In no particular order:

Marvel Mutant Massacre
Kree-Skrull War
God Loves, Man Kills
Infinity Gauntlet
Dark Phoenix Saga

Death of Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin (I could just list this story 5 times, but...)
Captain America 153 - 155 (I think) Real Cap vs. the insane 1950s Cap
Captain Marvel - Jim Starlin's first run
Secret Wars (The first mini-series - not the Nick Fury wars)
The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man

Squadron Supreme
Armor Wars
Secret Wars (original)
Kraven's Last Hunt
Earth X

The art is a little dated, but the story is decades ahead of its time.

Heh, Marvel Boy almost made my list as well. Great minds think alike.

what Squadron Supreme? the 12 issues?

By Marvel Boy, are you referring to the Noh-varr mini-series from 2000? If so, I never read that. Has it ever been collected in a GN? It must be good, so I gotta check it out.

I actually collected the original Squadron Supreme 12 issues series when it was new back when I was in college. Amazing how applicable that story is today.

Yeah, the 2000 mini by Morrison and Williams. It was such a great story and really different from the comics out at the time.

Morrison?! noooo. I thought it was the 1985 12 issues. (that I'm reading now and is awesome).

LOL, Carlos I think we're talking about two different things. I'm talking Marvel Boy and you're talking SS.