Category: Great Covers

Great Covers – CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES #113

Well, this isn’t going to end well for Mr. Tawny. A fun and intriguing CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES cover by C.C. Beck, from an era in which it wasn’t so much action or violence that sold comics as much as confounding imagery and fanciful ideas.

Great Covers – CAPTAIN AMERICA’S WEIRD TALES #74

greatcomicbookcovers: Captain America’s Weird Tales #74, by Martin Nodell (Featuring Captain America and the Red Skull)

Great Covers – THOR #351

This Walt Simonson THOR cover has a great story behind it, one that I heard at Mark Gruenwald’s memorial service.Mark was the editor on this portion of Walter’s THOR run. So, this cover was ready to go to press, but Editor in Chief Jim Shooter didn’t like the Thor face that Walt had drawn, and … Continue reading Great Covers – THOR #351 →

Great Covers – DAREDEVIL #6

chrissamnee: greatcovers1: Here’s a very simple and effective DAREDEVIL cover by Chris Samnee. Good use is made of the color of the trade dress of the Original Sin crossover to help draw attention to the red blanket around baby Matt, and the spotlight that falls upon his mother. It’s to Samnee’s credit that all of … Continue reading Great Covers – DAREDEVIL #6 →

Great Covers – MORE FUN COMICS #54

Probably the most iconic Spectre cover to grace MORE FUN COMICS in the golden age, this Bernard Baily piece communicates everything that you need to know about the implacable phantom. Here, he’s a hundred feet tall, striding through the wars and conflicts of men like a colossus, his mantled eyes sharp and even perhaps a … Continue reading Great Covers – MORE FUN COMICS #54 →