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Greatest Vertigo Comics Series

mike mike 6 Series Jun 6, 2026

The greatest series from DC Vertigo imprint, the adult-oriented line that produced some of the most literarily ambitious and creatively daring comics of the 1990s and 2000s.

Hellblazer (1988)

DC Comics

300 issues

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Hellblazer is the crown jewel of the Vertigo imprint, a 300-issue run featuring John Constantine across two decades of rotating creative teams, each bringing fresh horror to the most morally compromised hero in comics.

Preacher (1995)

DC Comics

66 issues

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Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon is the defining Vertigo series of the 1990s, a road trip through American mythology that combines ultraviolence with genuine feeling in a way no other comic has quite replicated.

Transmetropolitan (1997)

DC Comics

60 issues

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Transmetropolitan ran in Vertigo and remains one of the imprint finest achievements, Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson creating a science fiction satire of such ferocity and wit that it reads as essential journalism from an imagined future.

Y: The Last Man (2002)

DC Comics

60 issues

4

Y: The Last Man is one of Vertigo finest achievements, a science fiction premise that Brian K. Vaughan uses to examine gender, identity, and civilization across 60 issues of tight, character-driven storytelling.

100 Bullets (1999)

DC Comics

100 issues

5

100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso is a landmark Vertigo crime series, 100 issues of baroque noir building toward a conspiracy so large it implicates the entire American power structure.

Scalped (2007)

DC Comics

60 issues

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Scalped is one of the finest Vertigo series ever published, Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera delivering 60 issues of reservation noir that rank among the most human and morally complex storytelling the imprint ever produced.

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