Hepcat

It's not my intention to be aggressive. I just want you to have a look at the "Green Lantern" thread to get an idea of why I don't like the Green Lantern covers I posted here.

Okay. Due to popular demand here are scans in chronological order of the rest of my top twelve Flash covers from the Silver Age: Northland copy

So should I expect CGC to recognize the Hepcat collection?

Actually this thread is precisely about judging "covers" and not comics. Nobody here (certainly not I) is saying Green Lantern comics aren't fabulous. Incidentally, I haven't noticed you in the "Green Lantern" thread lately: Is there a good reason why you've not been around?

But the underlying question is why so many artists who don't draw realistically are getting paid by comic publishers these days. Okay, maybe abstract expression/artwork can go up on a wall some place, but comics are supposed to tell a story in pictures. Therefore the drawings of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Spider-Man, Wasp, etc, etc. should look precisely like those characters. If they don't, then my considered opinion is the artwork is so much trash.

Oh come on! Does that look like a properly drawn Green Lantern to you on the cover of #8?

Love those! They were a great free premium in Freakies cereal:

To another red-head with big hair:

While I don't have a #101, I might as well post these two:

I love the grey tone Sea Devils covers and I really like the vast majority of grey tone DC War covers. But two other grey tone covers from 1959 that I think are absolutely wretched are these two (not mine): Once again none of the heroes look right to me.

I decided to make my life easier by not counting the Green Lantern - Green Arrow issues. The #33 and #34 are both in my top seven.

Your comments are forever (or at least as long as this board lasts) though.

The following Fly cover managed to sink even deeper into the muck of boredom! Well, yeah. I've been effectively limiting myself to scans of the comics in my own collection so what I'm doing here is posting the worst covers from among the titles I like enough to collect. The worst of the best I guess.

Okay. I guess it's high time I showed my stuff. Don't say you weren't begging for it. I've been collecting unbuilt model kits since about 1983. I have a den where I keep my comics and many of my other collectibles: Here from nearly ten years ago are some pics of the main model cabinet in my den: And here's the miscellaneous toy cabinet in which I keep the overflow from my model kit cabinet: And a few close-up shots featuring Styx: And here's Styx standing guard to make sure no interloper, two legged or otherwise, trys to build any of my three Monogram Fred Flypogger kits: I have of course added a few slot car and other kits to my collection in recent years. If any of these kits are of particular interest, I have dozens of close-up shots of most of the model kits visible in my cabinets.

Had this been the first issue of Adventures of the Fly I discovered as a kid, I'm guessing I wouldn't have been fascinated by this striking new hero:

Finally this Green Lantern cover doesn't do anything for me:

Well for one thing Green Lantern doesn't look like himself. And for another I don't think grey-tone was a good finish in this case. Here's another early Green Lantern cover that strikes me as simply blah:

I hate this one: I bought it some twenty years ago only to be one step closer to completing my Green Lantern run.

Paste-Pot Pete is actually my very favourite Marvel villain!

Here are five more scans of Green Lantern covers that rank very high in my personal popularity sweepstakes:

The other Earth-Two team-up DC floated at about the same time:

"One Silver Age insight he had that was new to me was his identification of the issues on the stands in March 1965 as something of a turning point. There were plenty of crossovers prior to that date, but as of March 1965 the reader becomes aware of actually reading a single story of various characters who could appear in any of the several then-published Marvel Comics. Wolk's prime example is X-Men villains quitting Magneto's group in one week and then joining the Avengers as heroes in the next week. " I remember that very clearly with Hawkeye also transitioning from an Iron Man villain to a hero at the same time. I found this very unsettling as a thirteen year old. In the case of the Scarlet Witch perhaps it's now understandable because there's been a history of not truly "bad" villainesses in comic history. For example back in the Golden Age Alan Scott's secretary Molly Mayne decided that the only way to attract the attention of the dashing Green Lantern was to become a criminal since he seemed to have no interest in or time for anything but. She therefore donned the colourful garb of the Harlequin and set out to plague Green Lantern: (Not mine.) Eventually though she did succeed in enticing him to the altar. Even earlier there was Catwoman. The theme wasn't well explored in the Golden Age but it was eventually revealed that she too had turned to crime only to capture the attention of the Batman and lure him into her boudoir: That's women for you I guess. They're always allowed some leeway for those raging hormones I guess.

No. CARtoons was published by Petersen Publications and was thus the competing "Brand X" to Drag Cartoons: The brother and sister publications to CARtoons later in the 1960's included Hot Rod Cartoons, Cycletoons and Surftoons: Yes indeed! But just you try to find any of these magazines in a comic shop these days. You'll be very lucky to get anything beyond a dumb look.

The other one:

Do you remember the first or any of the DC comics you bought with the "Still only 10 cents" logo?