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You are here: Home / Comics Guides / Best of Lists / Dave’s Faves: All The Best Comics I’ve Ever Read

Dave’s Faves: All The Best Comics I’ve Ever Read

September 18, 2017 by Dave 109 Comments

Much like Liam Neeson, I’m always making lists. If you’re familiar with Comic Book Herald, you know these are typically massive reading order lists, with a primary focus on Marvel comics (and some DC!).

The below list is a very different breed, and is instead a collection of all my favorite comics and graphic novels I have ever read. Every time I read a new comic book series, I add it to the list, and rank it among the substantial competition of all the best comics ever.

There are two essential notes I’d like to add before you get to the list.

1 – I do not claim to have read all the greatest comics of all time. I am literally one man (at best, a half animal, part party machine). This list is an evolving organism that will take new shape as I pick up new books. If you have a personal favorite you don’t see included here, I’d love to hear about it in the comments, on Twitter, via email, on the street, from a disembodied voice floating through my attic… you get the idea.

2 – I have read many more Marvel comics than I’ve yet included on this list. This is changing all the time as I re-read Marvel series as part of My Marvelous Year and subsequently rank the titles. Again, if you’re looking for your Marvel comics fixin’s, I’d also check out my favorite 100 stories from 1998 to 2015, or the top 25 Marvel trade collections from 1961 to 1998.

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Neil Gaiman's Sandman from Vertigo Comics

Finally, the rankings you’ll see here are entirely comics I like a lot. The higher a comic is ranked, the more I like it. The full list is approaching 1,000 rankings, but this contains the top 500 good ones!

Let the superlative headlines begin, and enjoy the comics!

Last Updated: September 9, 2023

The Best Comics Of All Time

1) Watchmen




2) The Sandman

3) Bone

4) Jonathan Hickman’s Marvel-verse, 2008 to 2016

5) Mind MGMT

6) Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison & Richard Case

7) Mister Miracle

8) Maus

9) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

10) Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 1 through Vol. 3 (1-104)

11) Hawkeye

12) Pluto

13) Y: The Last Man

14) The Bulletproof Coffin + Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred

15) From Hell

16) Scott Pilgrim

17) My Favorite Thing is Monsters

18) Berlin

19) Building Stories

20) Miracleman

21) Blankets

22) Boxers & Saints

23) Starman

24) All Star Superman

25) Invincible

26) Preacher

27) Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima

28) American Born Chinese

29) East of West

30) Chew

31) Gotham Central

32) Frank Miller’s Daredevil

33) Criminal

34) Asterios Polyp

35) Batman: Year One

36) Usagi Yojimbo

37) Fear Agent

38) Epileptic

39) Marvels

40) The Fantastic Four Omnibus Volume 2 (FF 31-60)

41) Ice Cream Man

42) Persepolis

43) Love & Rockets

44) Batman: The Long Halloween + Dark Victory

45) Transmetropolitan

46) Punk Rock Jesus

47) Walt Simonson’s Thor

48) The Walking Dead: Compendium One

49) Sweet Tooth

50) Supreme: The Story of the Year

51) Uncanny X-Force (Rick Remender)

52) Infinite Kung Fu

53) Saga of the Swamp Thing

54) Saga

55) Batman (The New 52)

56) Morning Glories

57) Dreadstar

58) Daytripper

59) Vision

60) 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank

61) Black Hammer

62) Nimona

63) X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga

64) X-Statix

65) Hip Hop Family Tree

66) Astro City

67) Captain America by Ed Brubaker

68) Spider-Man Kraven’s Last Hunt

69) Sex Criminals

70) Wolverine: Weapon X

71) The Contract with God Trilogy

72) Grendel by Matt Wagner

73) The Black Monday Murders

74) The Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga

75) The Immortal Iron Fist

76) Dragon Hoops

77) BTTM FDRS

78) Astonishing X-Men

79) Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Vol. 1 – Vol. 5

80) Hitman

81) Guardians of the Galaxy (Abnett & Lanning Marvel Cosmic)

82) The Omega Men

83) Hellboy

84) Blacksad

85) It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

86) Age of Apocalypse

87) Superman Smashes the Klan

88) The Department of Truth

89) Atomic Robo

90) Black Panther: Panther’s Rage

91) Werewolves of Montpellier

92) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

93) Jessica Jones: Alias

94) Multiversity

95) Shutter

96) Fables Vol. 1 – Vol. 6

97) JLA by Grant Morrison

98) New X-Men

99) Moms

100) Ultimate Spider-Man

101) Wicked + Divine

102) Moonshadow

103) The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

104) Batman: The Black Mirror

105) I Killed Adolf Hitler

106) John Constantine: Hellblazer – Dangerous Habits

107) Strangers In Paradise

108) Chasin’ The Bird

109) Kent State: 4 Dead in Ohio

110) Murder Falcon

111) The Prince and the Dressmaker

112) Pulp

113) Nextwave: Agents of HATE

114) Batman: Arkham Asylum

115) Squadron Supreme

116) Green Lantern by Geoff Johns

117) JLA: A League of One

118) Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

119) Lucifer Book One

120) Nowhere Men

121) Lone Wolf and Cub

122) Bedlam

123) Six-Gun Gorilla

124) Essex County

125) Carl Barks Ducks

126) Revival

127) Astro Boy Vol. 1

128) Sheriff of Babylon

129) Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight

130) The Life & Times Of Scrooge McDuck

131) Planetary

132) DC Metal (Complete Event)

133) The Underwater Welder

134) Dr. Strange & Dr. Doom: Triumph & Torment

135) Thor: God of Thunder

136) Daredevil by Bendis and Maleev

137) Ultimates

138) DC’s 52

139) Animal Man (Grant Morrison Run)

140) Immortal Hulk

141) Shubeik Lubeik

142) The Abominable Charles Christopher

143) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

144) Acme Novelty Library #20

145) Batman & Robin (by Grant Morrison)

146) Hickman’s X-Men (House of X)

147) March: Book One

148) The Fade Out

149) Secret Wars (1984)

150) Locke & Key

151) Seconds

152) Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates

153) Richard Stark’s Parker (by Darwyn Cooke)

154) Pride of Baghdad

155) Orion by Walt Simonson

156) Little Bird

157) Rebirth of Thanos + Thanos Quest

158) Superior Foes of Spider-Man

159) Jack Kirby’s 4th World

160) Secret Six

161) Elektra Assassin

162) Superior Spider-Man

163) Fearscape

164) Upgrade Soul

165) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

166) Gotham Academy

167) Kingdom Come

168) Black Science

169) Ms. Marvel

170) Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

171) Meanwhile

172) Ice Haven

173) The Manhattan Projects

174) Jimmy Olsen

175) Through the Woods

176) O Human Star

177) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

178) Grayson (The New 52)

179) Superman: Secret Identity

180) Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection

181) Wizzywig

182) DC: The New Frontier

183) Paying for It

184) Fatale

185) Suicide Squad (John Ostrander Era)

186) The Flintstones

187) Injustice

188) Lazarus

189) Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Miles Morales

190) Moon Knight (Ellis & Shalvey)

191) Venom by Rick Remender

192) New Mutants by Claremont and Sienkiewicz

193) Midnighter by Steve Orlando

194) Southern Cross

195) The Waiting

196) Wolverine & The X-Men

197) Manhunter by Goodwin & Simonson

198) Black Bolt

199) You Are Deadpool

200) Justice League International

201) Batman and Son + The Black Glove

202) X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

203) Infinity Gauntlet

204) Monstress

205) The Nice House on the Lake

206) Punisher: Welcome Back Frank

207) The Umbrella Academy

208) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Turtles Reborn)

209) Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics

210) Slaughterhouse-Five

211) Fantastic Four (60-70, 500-524)

212) Paper Girls

213) They Called Us Enemy

214) Doctor Strange: The Oath

215) Flex Mentallo

216) Truth: Red White and Black

217) Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass

218) The Wild Storm

219) Daredevil by Mark Waid

220) Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt

221) Map To The Sun

222) RASL

223) Amulet

224) Cyclopedia Exotica

225) Catwoman: Lonely City

226) Ashes

227) Deathstroke (DC Rebirth)

228) Killing and Dying

229) Grass

230) Slam Dunk

231) Castle Waiting

232) The Magic Fish

233) Scalped

234) Top 10 + Smax

235) The High Desert: Black Punk Nowhere

236) Made in Korea

237) Canto

238) The Best We Could Do

239) Deadly Class

240) Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

241) Fantasy Sports

242) Bandette Volume 1

243) Birds of Prey by Simone & Benes

244) Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts

245) Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle

246) Squire

247) Ghost Cage

248) These Savage Shores

249) Bea Wulf

250) Thunderbolts

251) Captain Britain by Alan Moore & Alan Davis

252) Zero #1 to #10

253) Low, Vol. 1

254) Moebius: The World of Edena

255) Return of the Dapper Men

256) Superannuated Man

257) The Harrowing of Hell

258) Nighthawk: Hate Makes Hate

259) Bacchus, Book 1: Immortality Isn’t Forever

260) 47 Ronin

261) Infidel

262) The Authority (Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch)

263) The Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 1

264) Phonogram

265) Far Sector

266) Black Widow

267) Blue in Green

268) The Good Asian

269) Good Talk

270) Giant Days

271) 20th Century Men

272) Once and Future

273) Friday

274) Marvel Knights: Inhumans

275) Black Badge

276) God Country

277) Golden Age Wonder Woman

278) Wolverine by Claremont & Miller

279) Infinitum

280) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

281) Anya’s Ghost

282) Thanos War – Warlock & Avengers

283) Black Hole

284) Bitter Root

285) Fullmetal Alchemist

286) Hellions

287) Ghost World

288) Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack & Linda Medley

289) Fagin the Jew

290) Copra Round One

291) Captain Britain & MI13

292) Superman Rebirth

293) Cosmic Odyssey

294) Cow Boy

295) Batman: The Killing Joke

296) Blue is the Warmest Color

297) Doom Patrol (Young Animal)

298) Star Wars: Darth Vader

299) Spider-Man: Death of the Stacys

300) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

301) Irredeemable Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

302) Cable & Deadpool

303) Shade The Changing Girl

304) The Walking Dead Compendium Three

305) Batman R.I.P.

306) Mighty Thor (Jane Foster)

307) Daredevil by Zdarsky and Checchetto

308) The Green Lantern

309) Planet Hulk + World War Hulk

310) Mike Carey X-Men / Legacy

311) Old Head

312) Farmhand

313) Pax Romana

314) Check Please

315) Wake: The Hidden History of the Women Slave Revolts

316) A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance

317) Sabrina

318) Snapdragon

319) Genderqueer: A Memoir

320) Cover

321) Spectacular Spider-Man by JM DeMatteis

322) Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later

323) Death Note

324) Why Don’t You Love Me?

325) Monster

326) The Death Ray

327) Baba Yaga’s Assistant

328) TekkonKinkreet

329) Garlic and the Vampire

330) When I Arrived At the Castle

331) Planet Paradise

332) Displacement

333) Marvel Knights: Black Panther

334) This One Summer

335) El Deafo

336) Old Man Logan

337) Strikeforce: Morituri

338) Captain Marvel by Deconnick

339) Batwoman

340) FF

341) Heartstopper

342) Scarenthood

343) Sports is Hell

344) Silver Surfer (Slott + Allred)

345) The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story

346) Thor (Stan and Jack) To Wake the Mangog

347) Stumptown

348) Plain Janes

349) Demon

350) Kill or Be Killed

351) Iron Man: Extremis

352) Superman: Last Son of Krypton

353) Alan Moore’s Writing For Comics

354) Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

355) Private Eye

356) Wytches Volume 1

357) Motor Crush

358) Barrier

359) Wonder Woman by George Perez

360) John Byrne Fantastic Four

361) Moon Knight: Scarlet Redemption

362) November

363) Sentry (2000)

364) Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms

365) Witch Boy

366) Berserk

367) Batman: Ego

368) Domu: A Child’s Dream

369) Prince of Cats

370) Snow Glass Apples

371) Mark Waid’s Flash

372) Clyde Fans

373) Patience

374) Do a Powerbomb

375) Superman: Man of Steel Vol. 1

376) One Week in the Library

377) Doctor Strange by Cates

378) Star Wars Legacy

379) JLA One Million

380) Green Lantern/Green Arrow (Denny O’Neil & Neal Adams)

381) Manifest Destiny

382) Dark Night: A True Batman Story

383) Star Wars: The Crimson Empire Saga

384) Comic Book History of Comics

385) Superman: Secret Origin

386) Southern Bastards Volume 1 and 2

387) Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom (Valiant reboot, uncollected)

388) Deadshot: Beginnings

389) Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars

390) Hellblazer: Original Sins

391) Emperor Doom

392) She-Hulk

393) Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin

394) “The Life of Captain Marvel”

395) Valerian: Complete Collection Vol. 1

396) Catwoman by Brubaker, Cooke, Allred

397) Earth X

398) Mark Gruenwald Captain America

399) Dragon

400) Secret Weapons

401) Redneck

402) X-Men: Messiah CompleX

403) That Texas Blood

404) Dead Dog’s Bite

405) Daredevil by Ann Nocenti & JR JR

406) Ping Pong

407) The Book of Frank

408) Bitch Planet

409) Green Arrow: Quiver

410) Cable #1 to #12

411) SHIELD

412) Space Riders

413) Extremity

414) Lady Killer

415) Grass Kings

416) Hawkeye (2016)

417) Rat Queens Volume 1

418) The Joker (Tynion & March)

419) Runaways (Rowell & Anka)

420) New Kid

421) Kindred

422) Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham

423) A Red Mass For Mars

424) Our Encounters With Evil: Adventures of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and his Assistant Mr. Knox

425) Namesake

426) Black Magick Vol. 1

427) Infinite Crisis

428) X-Men Red

429) Sentient

430) All-New Wolverine

431) Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth

432) Lavendar Jack

433) American Vampire

434) Walking Dead: Clementine

435) Orphan and the Five Beasts

436) Radical: My Year With a Socialist Senator

437) One Punch Man

438) Enigma

439) In the Shadow of No Towers

440) JLA: Ultramarines

441) Outcast Volume 1

442) Queen & Country Vol. 1

443) Injection, Vol. 1

444) Son of Hitler

445) Divinity

446) The Sixth Gun Vol. 1

447) Cosmic Ghost Rider

448) Batman (Rebirth) + Night of the Monster Men

449) Second Coming

450) DCeased

451) Generation X

452) Unnatural

453) Mister Higgins Comes Home

454) New 52 Justice League: Forever Evil

455) JLA: Tower of Babel

456) Black

457) Super Sons (Rebirth)

458) Silver Surfer: Black

459) After the Rain

460) My Friend Dahmer

461) Black Orchid

462) The Other History of the DC Universe

463) Is This How You See Me?

464) Promethea

465) Lost At Sea

466) BPRD: Plague of Frogs

467) Machine Gun Wizards

468) Green Lantern Earth One

469) Superman/Shazam: First Thunder

470) Akira

471) Die

472) Sabretooth

473) Something Is Killing The Children

474) Batman: Hush

475) Reckless

476) Chainsaw Man

477) Norse Mythology

478) Real

479) Meal

480) Uzumaki

481) Wash Day Diaries

482) What’s the Furthest Place From Here

483) Girl Town

484) Anais Nin: A Sea of Lies

485) Transformers: The Wreckers Saga

486) Unity

487) Empire

488) Casanova

489) Superman for All Seasons

490) Thanos Wins

491) Buddy Does Seattle

492) Shortcomings

493) Local

494) Ragnarok Vol 1: Last God Standing

495) Barbaric

496) Revolver

497) Victor Lavalle’s Destroyer

498) The Graveyard Book

499) Killadelphia

500) Are you Listening?

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Comments

  1. Fafnir says

    July 4, 2023 at 11:31 pm

    Release the full list

    Reply
  2. BuzzerTekno says

    July 2, 2023 at 8:45 am

    wow nice lists but I vote fo Akira.

    Reply
  3. Shakir says

    May 19, 2023 at 4:25 am

    My favorite Childhood comics were Tintin by Herge and Asterix
    man i still tear u when i remember reading them as a kid 🥹 now im 20yrs old a

    Reply
  4. Musters says

    April 25, 2023 at 9:31 am

    Hiya! Noticed that No 34 is missing from the list, phenomenal stuff otherwise.

    Reply
  5. Romit says

    April 11, 2023 at 3:01 pm

    Hi great list…it would be much appreciated if you can also provide a quick description for superhero comics of what to read before lots of stories reference older events that I have no idea about

    Reply
  6. SlackerX says

    March 16, 2023 at 1:13 pm

    Amazing list, really enoyed going and finding out about them all. I’m an artist and this is source supreme.

    Only omission is Lone Sloane: Delirius by Philippe Druillet

    Reply
  7. Steve says

    February 25, 2023 at 8:35 am

    Thanos Quest didn’t make the list? Is it not long enough?

    Reply
    • Dave says

      February 26, 2023 at 9:24 pm

      #154

      Could be higher 🙂

      Reply
  8. Pax says

    October 20, 2022 at 12:01 pm

    It would be nice if there were any comments or explanation on why you thought these were the best comics of all time

    Reply
  9. ALEXIS says

    October 2, 2022 at 7:47 am

    Reply
  10. Habitual Resistor says

    August 12, 2022 at 9:24 am

    The fact that you have Tom Kings Mister Miracle number 6, is an utter comic book blasphemy. Just for the fact that it is above many that are far better than that craptastic non-story. This list is a farce.

    Reply
  11. Rogerooo says

    June 14, 2022 at 9:59 am

    There seems to be a mistake with “The Department of Truth”, it’s listed at both position 86 and 241.

    Reply
    • Dave says

      June 15, 2022 at 4:56 pm

      Or is it all a great conspiracy!

      (It’s not. Thank you!)

      Reply
  12. Matt says

    April 25, 2022 at 5:52 am

    Where’s Morrison’s Seven Soldiers?

    Reply
  13. Philippe says

    February 23, 2022 at 3:39 am

    Okay, I can understand why an American wouldn’t list European comics, but I’m surprised that V for Vendetta didn’t make the list. If you need some suggestions for European comics I can help out. I’ve been reading European comics for over 40 years.

    Reply
    • Habitual Resistor says

      August 12, 2022 at 9:27 am

      You are 100% correct. Especially when talking about V for Vendetta. I mean, really? Not even on the list? And I am American. I am surprised he has From Hell here. Alan Moore is one of the greatest writers ever.

      Reply
  14. Antaeus says

    February 13, 2022 at 3:46 pm

    Here is mine top list with a lot of European and American comics:
    1. Modesty Blaise by Jim Holdaway
    2. Donald Duck by Carl Barks
    3. Blueberry by Jean Giraud
    4. Blake & Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs
    5. Prince Valiant by Hal Foster
    6. Tintin by Hergé
    7. Asterix by Albert Uderzo
    8. Spirou & Fantasio by Franquin
    9. Lucky Luke by Morris
    10. Mickey Mouse by Paul Murry
    11. Calvin and Hobbes
    12. Valerian by Mezieres
    13. Garth by Frank Bellamy
    14. Rip Kirby by Alex Raymond
    15. Bernard Prince by Hermann
    16. Johan and Peewit by Peyo
    17. The Smurfs by Peyo
    18. Benoît Brisefer by Peyo
    19. Natacha by Walthery
    20. Yoko Tsuno by Roger Leloup
    20. Franka by Henk Kuijpers
    21. The Phantom by Lee Falk
    22. EC comics
    23. Valhalla by Peter Madsen
    24. Rejsen til Saturn by Claus Deleuran
    25. Oumpah-Pah by Albert Uderzo
    25. Tanguy et Laverdure by Albert Uderzo
    26. Felix by Jan Lööf
    27. Red Kelly by Hermann
    28. Donald Duck/Mickey Mouse by Romano Scarpa
    29. Bruno Brazil by William Vance
    30. Gaston Lagaffe by Franquin

    Reply
    • Mike says

      February 5, 2023 at 11:36 am

      I like snowpiercer

      Reply
    • Shakir says

      May 19, 2023 at 4:26 am

      man you have tintin and asterix in your list 🫡❤️
      my two all time favourite childhood comics🥹 , read all of them

      Reply
  15. Charly says

    January 3, 2022 at 2:27 pm

    Thanks for the list Dave, in 2019 I had checked the same list and I noticed that you have changed the list with many new comics, although for recent comics (like Tartarus for example) I would not add until they had a decent run and would leave heavy weights like Crisis from DC.

    Question, How can we know that you have updated this list, I would be very interested on knowing for new additions.

    br,
    Charles

    Reply
  16. David Warby says

    November 5, 2021 at 4:30 am

    Fantastic, eclectic list! I have a ton of catching up to do but you may also enjoy Unwritten and Crossover.

    Reply
  17. jacob jordan says

    October 12, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    Bone was very likely the best crafted comic book with animated characters ever.

    Reply
  18. Marco Pozzi says

    June 11, 2021 at 11:42 am

    Very interesting list. This site is a real windfall for choosing what to read with my “Marvel Unlimited” subscription. Unfortunately, you didn’t read what is considered the best sci-fi comic ever written: “The Eternaut” by the Argentinian comic writers Oesterheld and Lopez.

    Reply
  19. Apes says

    February 11, 2021 at 8:29 pm

    No love for European comics? I see Blacksad and Valerian but where’s the rest?

    I have HUGE respect for Marvel/DC/Image etc but once I got into European comics/bande dessinee I knew it was the superior artform. I’m even a hardcore Manga fan and European comics is better.

    The Incal
    Metabarons
    The Obscure Cities
    XIII
    Thorgal
    The Mercenary
    Lone Sloane
    (Anything from Heavy Metal Magazine)

    These titles have more IMAGINATION than some of the best sci-fi/fantasy movies I’ve seen period! I can’t go back to the typical Batman/X-men shit after experiencing those masterpieces.

    Reply
    • Charly says

      January 3, 2022 at 2:24 pm

      Nice list, Europeran comics are exactly what I was looking for.

      thx

      Reply
  20. Mike says

    January 16, 2021 at 12:10 pm

    For once I would love to see a list of American, UK and European Comics not including ANY DC/Marvel Comics.

    So many amazing comics that are never talked about in the US (US Citizen) because majority only care about superhero and villain comics.

    I mean there is some great DC/Marvel comics, but honestly would love to see a list for well written comics that don’t involve over the top violence or supernatural abilities.

    Reply
    • Jefferson says

      January 21, 2021 at 3:18 am

      That would be cool. If there’s not a list like that already, then make the list yourself and publish it somewhere on the internet, and tell others about it.
      The “majority only care about superhero and villain comics” is true because it’s an escape. An escape from everyone’s hum-drum boring life. When one leads a hum-drum boring life, the last thing you want to do is read about someone else’s hum-drum boring life. They want *POW* and *BANG* and out of this world stories with bigger than life characters.
      FYI, The 3rd top pick in this list was not DC or Marvel, and had no over the top violence or superhuman/villains. Just sayin’.

      Reply
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