Seth Hahne, of GoodOKBad fame, came up with this 31 Days of Comics challenge, one of those things where each day of the month you're given a different category that you then make a choice of a comic to fill that category. I thought it was a lot of fun and I did it in January of 2014 and 2015, but then the other day I thought, "It's been a while and most of the answers can be different every day."

We continue with Day 27, which is the Comic You've Read the Most Times.

I read so many comic books that I tend not to have much time to read any book that many times, so it would have to be one from when I was younger. I've read Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen tons of times and the answer very well COULD be the issue I picked for my favorite comic book, but I think the actual answer is a comic that my brother had that I read so many times that I had to tape the book together eventually so that it would remain readable....

West Coast Avengers Annual #1

The concept of the comic was that the Avengers discover that an Avenger has betrayed them in part one of the story (a part I don't think I actually read until, like, five years after I read this issue, which was right when it came out...heck, it might have even been LONGER than five years. Remember when you couldn't just buy any comic you wanted at any moment? And you had to actually SEARCH for back issues? Yeah, this way is better, agreed)...

and is also planning on some sort of diabolical plan. So they put together every readily available Avenger and they go to fight the minions of their former teammate.

For a kid, seeing pretty much EVERY Avenger was pretty darn cool. I especially recall this one bit in the issue (written by Steve Englehart, with a plot by Mark Bright and Danny Fingeroth - art by Bright and Geoff Isherwood) when they explain why certain Avengers couldn't have betrayed them (it turns out to be Quicksilver). Thinking back, it is really kind of a poorly written scene, as it is basically a page just of captions citing old issues of Marvel Comics, but obviously, I am a very certain type of person and the idea that Marvel had all of this history and it was all readily available to me was really cool and left a lasting impression.

This was during Englehart's "Dudes, everyone gets that Quicksilver's the worst, right?" period...

Even as a kid, I recall thinking, "Wait, she travels at the speed of light but he can, like, zig zag better, so that's how he gets away?"

But really, as a kid, what I really loved was how there were just SO MANY GODDAMN SUPERHEROES IN THIS COMIC! There was literally a team that was just "Former partners and/or fill-ins...plus Black Panther and Thor"...

Kids really love tons of superheroes in a comic and certain types of kids really love heavy uses of citations. The combination led to a well-worn comic book. I'll try to take a picture of it someday. I still have my copy.

That's my pick. What's YOURS?