An admitted classic, this Bernie Wrightson HOUSE OF SECRETS cover on the first appearance of Swamp Thing is really worth a closer look. The tonework is subtle and immaculately done, and the image is composed elegantly. All of the elements work, including the sensitive coloring. As some people will already know, Wrightson used a lot … Continue reading Great Covers – HOUSE OF SECRETS #92
A very nice multi-paneled Neal Adams DETECTIVE COMICS cover. This almost feels like it should be on HOUSE OF MYSTERY or UNEXPLAINED rather than a super hero comic. As usual, Adams’ photo-realistic style heightens the drama of the moment.
Here’s a much more modern cover, done by Greg Capullo for DETECTIVE COMICS. It’s again a very simple idea, but the way the silhouettes of both Batman and Gotham work, the subtle use of color in the clouds, and the glow of the Bat-Signal all come together perfectly. Again here, my only complaint here is … Continue reading Great Covers – DETECTIVE COMICS #27
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
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.
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
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
Credited to the Simon & Kirby Studio, this BOY COMMANDOS cover might be the work of Jack Kirby, or it might not. Either way, it makes its impact through the juxtaposition of the immaculate attributes of Superman and the down-to-Earth dead-end kid values of Brooklyn. As always, the yellow background functions like a spotlight.
A perfectly designed George Perez WONDER WOMAN cover encapsulating the character’s amazonian background and heritage.
There’s some weird anatomy at play on tiger-Batman, but this Irv Novick BATMAN cover packs the sort of impact more typically reserved for DC’s mystery comics of the era. I don’t know what it means either, but I certainly want to crack it open and find out. The only misstep, I think, is in making … Continue reading Great Covers – BATMAN #209
The Tom Brevoort Experience 