BHOC: FLASH #226

I owned two separate copies of this issue of FLASH, one of which was initially bought for my younger brother Ken. And it’s a good thing, too, because at some point soon after getting this issue, my father got angry with me for some infraction that I’d made and threw out all of my comic … Continue reading BHOC: FLASH #226

BHOC: FLASH #224

Got this one at that same post-Church candy store. Look at that lovely Nick Cardy cover, very clearly done from a Carmine Infantino sketch. This was the first new issue of FLASH that I ever had. Artwork on this one was by Irv Novick, whose style I would come to associate with the character, as … Continue reading BHOC: FLASH #224

Great Covers – BATMAN #205

The sketch for this Irv Novick BATMAN cover had to have been done by Carmine Infantino, who had been brought on staff by DC in the late 1960s to punch up the graphics of their line, which had grown stale over the years. It’s a masterful cover–that tilted ground line, the extreme close-up on the … Continue reading Great Covers – BATMAN #205

Great Covers – BATMAN #209

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