Apart from cancelled/ended series, have any DC or Marvel titles survived without ever having published a second #1 issue?

This just makes me sad to even ponder.

I think Hellblazer was DC's highest numbered series when it ended this year.

Fables is at #135 and the highest DC title if it's counted as DC and not Vertigo. In the comic book sales charts it is listed as a DC book.

When I was a kid I would figure out how old I was going to be when Action Comics hit #1,000, and Adventure and Detective...

Well, now you can start all over again!

I'm fine with renumbering, as long as the trades are numbered so I know what order to follow them all in. What's that? You say they don't number the trades anymore?

Well, shit.

If they keep up the periodic renumbering some fans might live for centuries yet....

I suspect they renumber them back again for #1000.
WHere would Action and Detective be right now without the renumbering?

Detective restarted after 881
Action restarted after 904

So we are around issue 28 now

So Tec -909 & Action 932

Can add a couple more for zero & 1 Million issues and other stunts if you want

Why would they restart AC so close to 1000

Dan DiDio can't think that far ahead.

They'll probably have a 1,000 issue double-sized commemoration issue anyway.

Of course they will.

If the renumbering even stays for that long.

I think the only thing Didio can count is his bank balance...............................

Truth.

The renumbering doesn't bother me so much.

However, it would bother me if I weren't one of the top tier artists/writers. Many times when a book is renumbered/rebooted/launched, the company will get their name artists and writers for those first few issues. Then, after all of the sweet royalties from those collectible issues are gone, the second-string has to come in and make a book that will endure past the novelty while the select few can move on to another relaunch.

Advocate of reboots every few years --> me.

There was a time when Avengers reaching #100 before Justice League did was a big deal (since JLA was there first, but didn't have ongoing monthly issues as Avengers did). I'd hope that it would be a prestige thing, having your comic in the 1,000's.

At this point, just call them by season year and episode number.

I hate to this, but THIS.

I could probably dig up multiple previous IMWAN screenames all advocating this idea.

It's long past time for comics to give up the idea that "the last 50 years of comics counts."

Oh, stop yourself. Of course it doesn't. "Continuity" is a cancer. It doesn't need to be, but people are so OBSESSED with it that it has become one.

So either tell endless stories that magically forget anything that happened more them three or four years before, or periodically reboot. Either way, tell people to F off with this nonsense. Get on with telling great stories and stop worrying about contradicting the Starbucks order Peter made in issue 276b!