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In the 1950s and 1960s, DC Comics frequently put gorillas on the covers of their comics because it would lead to a noticeable bump in sales.

Sort of how Wolverine and The Punisher would be injected into 1980s and 1990s Marvel comics to boost sales and draw attention to struggling books.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...71c6d94ed6.jpg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...b49ce4bbd5.jpg
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...45e4d1b146.jpg

(Canceled at issue thirteen. Not even the trifecta of The Punisher, Wolverine, and Ghost Rider could save that turd.)

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Boomers. Fucking weirdos.

;)

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And now most if not all these properties belong to Warner which also owns DC.

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My first ever issue of a Twomorrows publication that I bought in a comic shop when I took my then 3-year-old son into a comic shop for the first time. He's 20 now.

Such a great magazine. I then went and subscribed to their parent magazine Alter Ego right after.

I noticed Breyfogle's art and then his name (my favorite Batman artist of all time) and bought it immediately. Now tons of money and magazines later and I am still a loyal subscriber!

https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.ne...00/1109659.jpg

If you enjoy comic history at all, you should subscribe too! www.twomorrows.com

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That's a good mag (Alter Ego as well). :up:

Back when I was really heavy into comics as a teen in the 80s, I bought these two all the time:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...8b6ef9d53e.jpg

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...4e59a3cbfb.jpg

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Comics Scene was the tits when I was in high school. I loved the layout of it. It had a great section that had little blurbs about awesome sounding up and coming "in the works" TV shows and movies that alas never came to pass.

https://tickcomics.com/non_nec/1889_...e_front_lg.jpg

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There are a bunch of issue of Comics Scene up on archive.org. Don't think it's the complete run, though.

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By Crom!...The Barbarian. What???

And why were there so many horny robots in the 50's?

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/79/60/b2/7...ers-kitsch.jpg

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Oh my gosh, that The Flash cover, so politically incorrect. rotfl

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Similar to the gorilla "fad", DC also had many of their characters experience extreme weight gain.


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...74330f3cd9.jpg

Spoilerizing the rest due to size ...

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I've been rather busy with my work schedule changing, but here's another of my favorites...<img src="https://i.ibb.co/S0q0H45/Amazing-Spider-Man-76-edited-edited-edited-800.jpg"></img>

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A great cover for a great title from Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund.

https://i.ibb.co/RvfCBn2/Booster-Gol...edited-800.jpg

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Speaking of fat superheroes...

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...1615be24af.jpg

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Can't forgot this gem.

https://storage.googleapis.com/hipco...abea8826ed.jpg

https://storage.googleapis.com/hipco...40e848eb7f.jpg

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will travel, I had to like these covers even though it is just so wrong that this series exist in the first place.

Also, that perspective on the Spider-Man cover with The Lizard, I love it. You do not see a lot of covers with this perspective on them.

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Looking at Fatman's cape, it seems that when C.C. Beck came up with a good cape design he kept using it.

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Is this as bad? Because I never thought bad of Fat Albert as a kid. Hell, he was their gang leader.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.f9bddc6d...pid=ImgRaw&r=0

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Not a huge Wonder Woman collector but pretty much any cover which features her tied up or in chains commands a premium over her garden variety back issues. I think that says something about her average fan, lol.:lol: