Cool Comic Covers

[tegeus-Cromis]

Re. your closing comment - I know what you mean.

However, unfortunately, I think you've been fooled by the cover. It's a variant edition of issue 3 of a recent mini-series telling a story set forty years ago - but as far as I can tell, not a reprint).

Great idea for a thread though. Here are a couple of classics by Ditko and Kirby:

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I'm lucky enough to own copies of both those comics.

 

[tegeus-Cromis]

Jaime Hernandez, 1989:

 

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Dan DeCarlo, 1968:

 

[Matteo]

Another couple of classics by Kirby and Ditko:

 

[tegeus-Cromis]

The Doctor Strange one is Dan Adkins, not Ditko. Ditko had quit Dr. Strange with Strange Tales 146 (and a great cover it is too.)

 

[Matteo]

You're right - how did I miss that? And I have that 146 - great story.

 

[Luiglin]

 

[tegeus-Cromis]

Of contemporary artists, I really like Mike Allred.

 

[tegeus-Cromis]

Then there was that time when Gary Panter drew a cover for Omega the Unknown:

 

[Starbeast]

For me, I enjoyed many of the superhero, horror and weird comic books. The stranger the stories, the better. I always looked for something different, that sparked my imagination.

 

[Starbeast]

 

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[tegeus-Cromis]

I love this Neal Adams cover:

 

[Anthoney]

This is the time a mutant alien horse beat up Thor and took his hammer. This comic had the fast value increase I had ever seen.

It was being sold for $10 the week after it came out.

 

[dask]

Still remember how excited I got when my brother came home with this one:

or how excited I got when I was able to come home with this one myself:

 

[Extollager]

Thor #143, from the time when I was under the enchantment of Marvel comics and this title especially. There's this fabulous impression of a mythic dimension invading the drab grey mundane metropolis.

 

[Extollager]

Sadly, within a few years the same comic featured nightmarishly garish, cluttered covers. Forgive me for ruining your day.

 

[Matteo]

Indeed. Compare with an earlier Kirby cover:

I have the three Omnibuses and whilst the first "Journey into Mystery" issues can be a bit naïve, the issues in Kirby's last run are wild!

 

[Extollager]

That first Mangog series in Thor, Matteo, was about as much drama as I could bear.

 

[tegeus-Cromis]

And let's not forget Bernie Wrightson's covers for Swamp Thing. Most of the rest are here.