The Bestest Marvel Comics

A comment from a long-ago thread sparked my interest, reminded of it due to that thread about the most hated of comics monstrosities (at least as it was in the early 1990s), Image Comics -- and my general disconnect with most of comics fandomonium.

When did Marvel jump the shark?...

My answer, of course, as said by Dan Parometer:

Or (just to be snarky) when Basil Wolverton and Dan DeCarlo left?

Except he's wrong. It's when Wolverton, Decarlo, and Krigstein left in the late 1950s. They then had something of a golden age during the early 1990s when they published Evan Dorkin and Ty Templeton.

All of which spurred me to jot down my favourite Marvel Comics, or some facsimilie thereof. (I'm a bit loose with the realities here.) I wanted a list of 12, but since I could only come up with 14 entries into this hall of fame, I'll list them all.

14: Dracula. Gene Colan. Not terribly good, but charming enough.
13: The Astonishing Ant-Man. As featured in a "This American Life" segment, and collected into a black and white "Essentials" Volume, this superhero has the power to shrink and amass a swarm of ants to attack the villians. They got tired of this self-limiting power, and thus he gained a different power "Giant Man". And somehow that leads to "Giant Size Man Thing", something I have no comment on.
12: Alf. Something about a comic that outlasts its television property by a couple years.
11: Dan Decarlo's swarm of comics -- that'd be "Millie the Model", "My Girl Pearl", "Irma something or other", and "Homer the Happy Ghost". To be honest all I have is a stray issue of the reprint series of "Homer the Happy Ghost" they published in the late 1960s, deleting Decarlo's name (and seemingly replacing it with the writer -- Stan Lee's). Caspar oughta have sued.
10: Bernie Krigstein's swarm of comics. Albeit a bit disappointing.
09: Groo -- Sergio Aaragones.
08: Devil Dinosour -- Jack Kirby
07: Basil Wolverton's kitchy sci fi and horror comics.
06: Mad Dog -- Ty Templeton
05: Fightman -- Evan Dorkin.
04: Dr. Strange -- Stan Lee. Steve Ditko.
03: Hey! Look! Harvey Kurtzman (published alongside the thrilling comics of "Tessie the Typist". Do they count? Why not?)
02: Powerhouse Pepper by Basil Wolverton
01: Bill and Ted's by Evan Dorkin

Reasons may be inserted later. If I missed anything feel free to tell me. Lists of similar counterintuitive nature welcome.