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6. Eighteen

Runaways #18 (2003)

This is the final issue of the original Runaways series, and it’s a great way to go out.

After the gang takes down The Pride and their former teammate, Captain America and SHIELD separate them and place them in foster homes. But, of course, they break out and run away.

Most of the actual issue revolves around the team’s efforts to track down Old Lace, who’s locked up in an old Avengers West Coast facility. It’s a great little epilogue to the events of the main series, and it sets our heroes up for my favorite Runaways status quo: on the run and bound for adventure.

While I'm happy we got more, for the Runaways in general and Vaughan's run in specific, this could have been the final issue and it still would have worked perfectly.