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Trevor 07-30-15 08:09 AM

What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
Here is mine. It combines two of my favorite artists, Neal Adams and Michael Golden; my favorite Marvel character, Man-Thing; and the series that cemented me as a comic book fan, The Micronauts.

It was a sort of perfect storm of elements that makes it impossible for me to ever entertain a new favorite cover.

http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/a...psf154e966.jpg

Dimension X 07-30-15 10:22 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
Maybe not my absolute favorite cover, but I really like this one. I have a poster version of it from the '70s, that hung on my wall for years when I was a teenager, that I had for a long time before I ever got a copy of the comic.


Plus, you gotta love that big "1" over there on the right, to maybe confuse people into thinking it's a fist issue, or something.

stingermck 07-30-15 10:54 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...o_Vol_1_33.jpg

Always a favorite. Especially if you know the context.

First comic I collected, and a huge Cobra Commander fan.

rocket1312 07-30-15 11:45 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
It would be tough for me to pick an absolute favorite, but X-Men #137 is an all-time classic that unfortunately is almost completely ruined by the contest banner.

http://i58.tinypic.com/24lsop4.jpg

While not nearly as iconic, the reprint of this issue in Classic X-Men #43 has a cover that I think I might even prefer to the original. Something about the look on Jean's face is just haunting to me. There's a look of inevitability that foreshadows her ultimate fate. While the Classic X-Men series is full of great covers by guys like Arthur Adams and Mike Mignola, this was the only one that John Byrne ever did. I kind of wish he had gotten the opportunity to do more.

http://i61.tinypic.com/2qv60pg.jpg

John Pannozzi 07-30-15 12:10 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...rs_Vol_1_6.jpg

wishbone 07-30-15 12:30 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
http://i.imgur.com/N6i44EE.jpg

This was my cousin's comic book and eventually I ended up with it.

terrycloth 07-30-15 03:45 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
my favorite cover from a kid was still the 90s x-men cover with all the covers forming the one giant cover. first time i seen that done and thought it was cool.

madcougar 07-30-15 04:18 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by Dimension X (Post 12549052)
Maybe not my absolute favorite cover, but I really like this one. I have a poster version of it from the '70s, that hung on my wall for years when I was a teenager, that I had for a long time before I ever got a copy of the comic.


Plus, you gotta love that big "1" over there on the right, to maybe confuse people into thinking it's a fist issue, or something.

Neal Adams?

fumanstan 07-30-15 04:26 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by terrycloth (Post 12549408)
my favorite cover from a kid was still the 90s x-men cover with all the covers forming the one giant cover. first time i seen that done and thought it was cool.

Still my favorite too, since I was 9 years old at the time and basically my first introduction to comic books and the X-Men. Loved Jim Lee's stuff ever since and my idea of what superheroes should look like. I have the Cyclops/Wolverine one myself.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Xmenjimlee.jpg

Spiderbite 07-30-15 04:46 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
One of my first comics and I have mentioned it here before. I still love the cover but the art inside was just as good:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...marvelvoid.jpg

Dimension X 07-30-15 05:53 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by madcougar (Post 12549447)
Neal Adams?

Yes.

Edit: Here's an interesting wikipedia entry about that issue.


Originally Posted by Dimension X (Post 12549052)
Plus, you gotta love that big "1" over there on the right, to maybe confuse people into thinking it's a fist issue, or something.

I had forgotten that that was the first issue edited by Julius Schwartz, after Mort Weisinger retired. So the big "1" does kind of have a legitimate purpose.

Inhumans99 07-30-15 06:46 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
Brave and the Bold 34 (1st Hawkman). Hawkman is not my fav DC character of all-time, it is just that I fell in love with this cover when it was reprinted in an Overstreet guide from the 90s (maybe the 1991 Overstreet guide).

One of these days I plan to buy a high grade copy at a show (perhaps CGC graded, but I need to have some $$$ in the bank first).

Mondo Kane 07-30-15 07:03 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net...00/1076741.jpg

PhantomStranger 07-30-15 09:11 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
For me it's the famous death of Supergirl issue from Crisis on Infinite Earths. It rocked my world when I first saw this cover. The iconic art by George Perez perfectly encapsulated the moment. Having Superman cry over her dead body was a stroke of genius. You can make out the other heroes mourning silently in the background. Though I wish they had come up with a better tag than "This is it! Double-size shocker!" Rest in peace, sweet Kara Zor-El.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...8b/Crisis7.jpg

Undeadcow 07-30-15 10:46 PM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
https://dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.n...b216&width=180

Edit: Just noticed the similarity to the [Edit: Crisis on Infinite Earths] above.

sven 07-31-15 02:19 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2013/...-2-530x815.jpg

rw2516 07-31-15 06:10 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
F.F #48
Second favorite: Showcase #61. Shows that red demon guy smashing planet Earth onto Spectre's head.

Solid Snake 07-31-15 06:31 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by fumanstan (Post 12549457)
Still my favorite too, since I was 9 years old at the time and basically my first introduction to comic books and the X-Men. Loved Jim Lee's stuff ever since and my idea of what superheroes should look like. I have the Cyclops/Wolverine one myself.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Xmenjimlee.jpg

The Cyclops/Wolverine one is the best. The other ones had regular quality of material to them. But that one was the glossy paper.

Jim Lee created the most iconic looks to them.

Spiderbite 07-31-15 07:54 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
I always loved Mike Zeck's work and I loved his Punisher series:

http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net...600/514879.jpg

Just badass.

This one as well:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/...nisher-the.jpg

Timber 07-31-15 08:29 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
All time favorite has already been posted in X-Men #1.

This is my all time favorite panel which happens to be from said comic and contains my favorite character.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2likjef.jpg

rocket1312 07-31-15 08:42 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by Spiderbite (Post 12549860)
I always loved Mike Zeck's work and I loved his Punisher series:

Speaking of Mike Zeck, this to me is the quintessential Zeck cover:

http://i61.tinypic.com/2drfev4.jpg

Trevor 07-31-15 09:08 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by Undeadcow (Post 12549736)
Edit: Just noticed the similarity to the Infinite Crisis above.

Please. One should not speak of Infinite Crisis, and definitely not confuse it with Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Hokeyboy 07-31-15 09:22 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 
I don't know if I have a *favorite*, but if I did it would probably be this one:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/...1_1939_100.jpg

Timber 07-31-15 09:22 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by Solid Snake (Post 12549834)
The Cyclops/Wolverine one is the best. The other ones had regular quality of material to them. But that one was the glossy paper.

Jim Lee created the most iconic looks to them.

You mean the gatefold had glossy paper? I'm pretty sure on initial release 4 of the individual covers were on the standard paper of the time.

rocket1312 07-31-15 09:43 AM

Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
 

Originally Posted by Timber (Post 12549947)
You mean the gatefold had glossy paper? I'm pretty sure on initial release 4 of the individual covers were on the standard paper of the time.

Correct. I think Snake is confusing the fact that there was a standard Wolverine and Cyclops cover and then the deluxe edition with the full gatefold of which the Wolverine and Cyclops image is the part of the cover that is visible when the gatefold is folded together.


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