We talked earlier about the first BATMAN cover to feature an African-American character on it. This GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW cover is definitely the first DC book to feature a black man in a super hero costume. And while it would have been more plugged into the zeitgeist in, say, 1968 than when it saw print … Continue reading Great Covers – GREEN LANTERN #87
An arresting HULK cover by Todd McFarlane, one that’s been imitated and homaged dozens of times by now. I’m pretty sure that this was the first instance of a cover image where somebody else is reflected in Wolverine’s claws.Great intensity on Wolverine’s face as well.
Another great and very simple Fred Ray patriotic WWII-era SUPERMAN cover. Images like this one were all the rage during the peak years of the Second World War, but Superman somehow did them larger and better than most.
I’ve written here in the past about the battle waged between competing PBS Stations in my broadcast area for the pledge money to be garnered from supporters of DOCTOR WHO back in the 1980s. This led to both stations picking up anything within the BBC’s back-catalog of programs that looked as though it might appeal … Continue reading BLAKE’S 7
Here is the realism and relevance of the GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW series taken to the extreme, with an image that DC might think twice about running even today. Neal Adams’ photo-realistic style is used to good effect as we are smacked in the face with the image of a super hero (albeit a sidekick) using … Continue reading Great Covers – GREEN LANTERN #85
A very clever and concept-driven cover to X-MEN LEGACY by Mike Del Mundo. This image clearly and emotionally gets across the idea of Legion’s telepathic powers run amok. Incorporating the logo and credits into the image helps to increase the effect.
A super-simple patriotic cover by Lou Fine for NATIONAL COMICS, featuring Uncle Sam. This one could practically be the cover of an edition of the Saturday Evening Post, and evokes the classic James Montgomery Flagg image to good effect.
Concept and copy-oriented, this Curt Swan SUPERMAN cover succeeds by teasing the events of the story inside. In a day when comics typically contained three separate stories, the promise of a longer tale “in three great parts” was like getting the promise of a movie. Clearly this had to be an important story to warrant … Continue reading Great Covers – SUPERMAN #132
Not a comic book, but their immediate progenitor, the pulp magazines, this SHADOW cover by George Rozen is perhaps the quintessential image of the character. it was popular enough that it was used again four years later as the cover to the first SHADOW Annual.
Pretty sure this ARCHIE’S MADHOUSE cover is by Harry Lucey, and it’s a bit more surreal than is typical of the Archie fare of its day–MADHOUSE being the title in which Archie went for surrealism. It’s a very simple idea, almost so simple that you wonder why it never happened before. The only misstep to … Continue reading Great Covers – ARCHIE’S MADHOUSE #2
