Just For Fun: What If? Golden Age Covers

[Cosmic Boy]

Just for fun, I've been working on some What If? covers for key Golden Age issues-- i.e. covers that should have featured other characters.

 

Well...

 

I just finished my first re-imagining, and I'm pretty happy with the results considering I whipped it up in a couple of hours on an ancient paint program.

 

May I present to you...

 

MORE FUN COMICS #73 [1st Aquaman & Green Arrow]

 

What should have been!

 

 

What do you think?

 

Feedback is always appreciated, and suggestions for future re-imaginings are encouraged!

 

--CB

 

[Scrooge]

Nice idea and nice effort

[thehumantorch]

Very cool. Love to see more of these.

[Doohickamabob]

Feedback is always appreciated, and suggestions for future re-imaginings are encouraged!

 

It is a sin that Fiction House never had Matt Baker do a Sky Girl cover.

[Comicopolis]

 

How about some Mary Marvel.

[BB-Gun]

 

How about some Mary Marvel.

 

How about Superwoman?

[Cosmic Boy]

Feast your eyes on what should have been All-Star #8 [1st Wonder Woman]...

 

[PokerKid]

Outstanding. No other character was kept hidden away for as long as Aquaman. About time his fishy face graces a GA cover.

 

Great idea for a thread!

[BB-Gun]

OK, I have shown these before but I think there aren't enough Baker covers. So I made a few more.

[ciorac]

How about a nice Dr. Fate or Johnny Quick?

 

I always thought simply putting the cover of 56 or 61 on 55 would have made that book so much more desirable. But, you may come up with something cooler for the fantasy cover

[Bat-Man]

Love that MF73 re imagining!

[Comicopolis]

Feast your eyes on what should have been All-Star #8 [1st Wonder Woman]...

 

 

[Cosmic Boy]

How about a nice Dr. Fate or Johnny Quick?

 

I always thought simply putting the cover of 56 or 61 on 55 would have made that book so much more desirable. But, you may come up with something cooler for the fantasy cover

 

Here's what I did my friend...

 

As Dr. Fate is unabashedly my second favorite DC character!

 

I re-imagined More Fun #55 [1st Dr. Fate] using elements from 5 different More Fun covers. First person to identify all 5 gets bragging rights and Golden Age street cred!

 

 

[BangZoom]

 

#'s 55, 67, 69, 71, 73

[Cosmic Boy]

#'s 55, 67, 69, 71, 73

 

Close, but no cigar! You have 4 out of 5 correct! #55 is not used for this re-creation. The remaining issue is kind of hard to pin-point given how it was used!

[ciorac]

#'s 55, 67, 69, 71, 73

 

70

 

Looks like you used the 10c circle from #70 due to the slightly darker yellow fill?

[telerites]

Love stuff like this. I put these together a while back - forgive my poor photoshop skills:

 

 

 

And not a cover reinterpretation but...

 

[Cosmic Boy]

#'s 55, 67, 69, 71, 73

 

70

 

Looks like you used the 10c circle from #70 due to the slightly darker yellow fill?

 

I'll go ahead and divulge the missing issue because its use was so obscure. It's actually issue #56-- I doubled the 5 from the header in order to make the issue # of 55 in yellow/orange.

 

At any rate, I'm happy with the results.

[Flex Mentallo]

It struck me that Mystery Men #2 could easily pass for a Planet cover soooo....

 

 

[Forbush-Man]

Someone please photoshop a picture of Gator onto a "Hello Pal" cover for me.