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.





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

Boomers. Fucking weirdos.

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

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!



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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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




Spoilerizing the rest due to size ...

I've been rather busy with my work schedule changing, but here's another of my favorites...

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

Speaking of fat superheroes...

Can't forgot this gem.

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.

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

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

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.