If you could pick one 1980s cover....

[TFL-migration]

TMNT # 1 .. 'Nuff Said.

[Rodey]

Avengers 196

[TMNT]

TMNT # 1 .. 'Nuff Said.

 

(thumbs u

[Bronty]

Avengers 196

 

great book and cover

[Bronty]

TMNT # 1 .. 'Nuff Said.

 

unbelievable book, but for me the cover art on the first issue isn't strong enough to make it my pick, although I can understand why others would like it

[spider9698]

I know the owner of the DKR2 cover and was told that he has had the cover for many years and will never ever be for sale.

Sigh!!

 

[igotnogame]

X-Men 141 - classic, classic, classic.

 

Killing Joke would be my 2nd choice.

[MutantKeys]

X-Men 234

[delekkerste]

Where's the G.I. Joe #21???

 

I went with Daredevil #181 - my favorite issue of all-time. The cover is simple, but dramatic, though it's really all about the nostalgia with that one.

 

I'm surprised that TMNT #1 got so many votes - unlike most of the others, that one was actually available not that long ago! For a modest sum, of course. :yeahok:

[comix4fun]

X-Men 234

 

 

You aren't allowed to vote if you were born after the decade in question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

C

[blowout]

A lot of great covers missing from that list...

 

I'd go with either ASM #252 or Secret Wars #10

[tth2]

TMNT # 1 .. 'Nuff Said.

 

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[tth2]

I'm surprised that TMNT #1 got so many votes - unlike most of the others, that one was actually available not that long ago! For a modest sum, of course. :yeahok:

Yeah, but you had to buy all of the interior art with it, which made it a tad pricey.

[shiverbones]

out of that list I went with Killing Joke. Out of any bronze cover... Maybe Sandman #1

[Bonds25]

You're an evil man Dan! Great group you've listed.

 

When it's all said and done, I think I'd go with Dark Knight #1.

[Nexus]

Another great list of covers. I went with DKR #1. The OA to that has got to be even more spare than the published version. But that's the one I'd want most out of that list.

 

I like the MIRACLEMAN #1 cover better than the #15, and I think SWAMP THING #34 is the best of that run.

 

I would have had more independents on the list, including GROO #1 (Pacific Comics OR Epic), the aforementioned LOVE AND ROCKETS #1, MR. MONSTER #3 (Dave Stevens cover...hell, just about any Stevens cover), AMERICAN FLAGG #1 (have found #1 and #2 and sadly, both are incomplete in OA form), and for me, NEXUS #1 (v.2).

 

Oh yeah, for Marvel and DC, NEW TEEN TITANS #1 (v.1) and CLASSIC X-MEN #1.

 

 

[Bronty]

Another great list of covers. I went with DKR #1. The OA to that has got to be even more spare than the published version. But that's the one I'd want most out of that list.

 

I like the MIRACLEMAN #1 cover better than the #15, and I think SWAMP THING #34 is the best of that run.

 

I would have had more independents on the list, including GROO #1 (Pacific Comics OR Epic), the aforementioned LOVE AND ROCKETS #1, MR. MONSTER #3 (Dave Stevens cover...hell, just about any Stevens cover), AMERICAN FLAGG #1 (have found #1 and #2 and sadly, both are incomplete in OA form), and for me, NEXUS #1 (v.2).

 

Oh yeah, for Marvel and DC, NEW TEEN TITANS #1 (v.1) and CLASSIC X-MEN #1.

 

 

I thought about most of those... they are fantastic covers, and I'd love to have them but ultimately I just didn't think any of them were popular enough to have a chance of winning against a more mainstream book like hulk 340 or turtles 1. Wouldn't you agree? I mean I doubt more than a handful of guys on this board have even read love & rockets for example.... I was pretty heavily into independents and yet its one I never did try. So while it and books like it might get some votes it was never going to wear the championship belt, I didn't think

 

[Bronty]

Another great list of covers. I went with DKR #1. The OA to that has got to be even more spare than the published version. But that's the one I'd want most out of that list.

 

 

I almost went with that also. That frickin cover is burned into my brain I remember recreating the cover myself with pencil/ink as a twelve year old.

[Bronty]

You're an evil man Dan! Great group you've listed.

 

When it's all said and done, I think I'd go with Dark Knight #1.

 

Evil? Who me?

 

you're a man of impeccable taste Matt.

[jjonahjameson1]

honorable mention

 

 

I was so young and impressionable when this book came out that I got a bunch of toothpicks, lit them, and tried to smoke them, just like my hero, Wolveroach.

ugh, mint toothpicks!