The Spirit (post-WW2 Eisner era)
Tarzan (Marsh, Manning and Kubert runs)
Disney Ducks (Barks stuff)
Superman family of titles (Weisinger era)
Milt Caniff comic strips
Conan (Thomas/Busiek runs)
Cerebus
Doom Patrol ('60s era)
Jonah Hex (Fleisher and Gray/Palmiotti eras)
Elfquest (pre-expansion)
Vampirella (Goodwin era)
Heavy Metal magazine (first decade or so)

Marvel in the Silver Age
Superman in the Weisinger Era
Jack Kirby in the 70s
Lush, Thick Inking a la Sinnott, Allred, Klein, etc.
Superhero Costumes
Far-Out Ideas Like Galactus, The Phantom Zone, etc.
Alan Moore's Writing
Idealized Renderings of the Human Anatomy a la Buscema, Cho, Frazetta, etc.
My Childhood Passion
Frank Miller in the 80s-90s
Mythic Tales of Heroes and Villains
The Fact That Anyone with a Drawing Tool and Paper Can Make Them

Superboy playing with Krypto
The Teen Titans calling each other by nicknames
Superman smiling as he realizes that Lois is up to something
Mera holding Aquababy
Pete Ross giving Clark an excuse to disappear before Superboy arrives
The Atom sitting on Hawkman's shoulder
Supergirl sneaking out of the orphanage
Batman looking into a microscope
Legion try-outs
Ma Kent in her apron
The Justice League of America splitting into smaller teams
Jimmy Olsen's signal watch

Heroes' self-sacrifice / fighting against impossible odds (Daredevil vs Submariner)
The Amazing Fantasy-style stories by Lee and Ditko
Batgirl backup stories in Detective Comics
The juxtaposition of the wealthy Uncle Scrooge with the everyduck Donald Duck
Zorro stories by Alex Toth
That Russ Manning robots all went Squeeee
Avengers (Silver and Bronze Age)
The DC Explosion in the 1970s
That Atlas-Seaboard made a run at it when I was 12
That comics forever link me to my Dad

On the twelfth day of Christmas my book store gave to me

12 Palmers inking
11 Hulks a-smashing
10 Gerbers writing.
9 Stan soap-boxing
8 Kane's a-covering
7 Adams drawing
6 Kirby's crackling
5 MANDARIN RINGS
4 Mockingbirds
3 Norse Gods
2 Alternate Earths
And a man dressing up as a bat

That new comic book smell.

The squeak from the comic book rack as it turned, announcing to everyone in the drugstore that I had arrived.

Misleading covers.

Trying to guess inkers without looking at the credits.

Trading them with my friends. (Still can't believe that my best friend traded me all of his Brave & Bolds for my DC Comics Presents. Sucker.)

Three packs of Marvels and DC's at the dollar store.

The superhero and super-villain costumes.

The cliffhangers that used to keep me awake at night for fear that I would miss the next issue.

The ads for all those crazy novelties.

Sneaking them to school and reading them during class.

Grant Morrison's Batman

Grant Morrison's JLA

Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers

Grant Morrison's Animal Man

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles

Grant Morrison's All Star Superman

Grant Morrison's Final Crisis

Grant Morrison's Seaguy

Grant Morrison's Action Comics

Grant Morrison's Marvel Boy

Books about Grant Morrison

Seaguy?

Walter
Neal
Stan
Jack
Marv
George
Jose
JA
Bruce
Barry
Oliver
Hal

Pure awesomesauce.

No, I know what Seaguy was. Just questioning its inclusion.

It's nothing but pure, undiluted things about comics that are awesome. How could I not include it?

Man, you're really a super-fan.

You forgot Rocktober.

This is actually 78 things.

Howard the Duck having Beverly Switzler as a girlfriend
Spider-Man trying to get rid of his powers and growing extra arms by mistake
Werewolf by Night
Bloodstone
The Headmen
The Mandrill
Talking Apes of every description
The Atomic Knights riding on giant Dalmatians
Everything Jack Kirby ever drew
Bizarre Adventures #27
Morbius the Living Vampire
Tigra outsmarting the Molecule Man in Avengers #215 and #216

Uncle Scrooge and nephews hunting for the Flying Dutchman

The genius of Charles Schulz

Gold Key ghost stories

Tintin and Captain Haddock searching for Professor Calculus

Barbara Gordon as Batgirl

Patsy Walker as Hellcat

Reading reprints of classic FF at my mom's beautician's

Finding back issues I remember from way back (still happens on very rare occasions)

Being able to buy comics as part of my job

Savoring art that hits just the right balance between detail and storytelling

Watching the many ways storytelling can unfold across the page

The juxtaposition of words and art you can only see in comics

Fantastic Four 1 - 100

George Perez

Clint Barton's Goliath costume

Thomas / Adams / Palmer X-Men

Jim Mooney's Supergirl

Calvin and Hobbes

Boring and Plastino on Superman

Simonson's Thor

Kurt Busiek

The Silvermane / Tablet saga in Spider-Man

The Scorpio story in The Defenders

Conventions with friends

Youngblood 1 (1992)
Youngblood 1 (1997)
Youngblood 1 (2008)
Youngblood: Genesis 1
Youngblood: Bloodsport 1
Youngblood: Imperial 1
Team Youngblood

You forgot Younglood Strikefile and Youngblood Battlezone, you fake fan.

The smell of old comics.
Finding an old comic you had as a kid.
Ant-Man herding a colony of ants.
The tiny Atom punching out a full grown man.
George Herriman's desert mesas.
The Metal Men.
Jack Cole's Plastic Man
Lee/Kirby's Fantastic 4
Lee/Ditko's Spider-Man
Having something to look forward to on Wednesdays.
Long lived characters like Superman and Batman changing thru the years,and yet remaining the same.
Having another 12 things to love about comics.