"Notorious" GA Covers

[gozer]

The GA has its share of lurid GGA, gory, or just all around weird covers.

But which are the covers that are really, really out there on the fringes?

Just totally outrageous covers.

These are covers where your first reaction is "I can't believe they put that on the cover!"

I can think of a handfull, but there's certainly many more. My initial list would be something like:

Air Fighters 2	Japanese pilot being shot
Black Cat Mystery Comics 50	"white heat" burning guy's face off
Brenda Starr 14	classic bondage, clothes in tatters
Crime Does Not Pay 24	burning woman's face on the stove
Crime SuspenStories 22	severed head, hand holding an ax
Fight 31	decapitation cover
Fight Against Crime 20	decapitation, putting body into manhole
Giant Comics Editions 12	Matt Baker prostitution cover
Harvey Comics Library 1	AKA: Teen-Age Dope Slaves
Lawbreakers Suspense Stories 11	severed tongues
Phantom Lady 17	'nuff said
Reform School Girl	sleazy gal
Suspense Comics 3	hooded figure with knife and bound woman
Underworld Crime 7	torture with hot iron

Some honorable mentions:

Air Fighters v2#2	Valkyrie's split to the waist blouse
Blue Beetle 54	famous, but a bit bland really
Claire Voyant 3	guy pistol whipping a woman
Rangers 27	GI being burned at the stake

Plain old GGA or violence doesn't cut it for this category -- For example, I wouldn't call any

of the Torchy books notorious.

cheers,

gozer

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Fiddle-faddle, everyone knows our mutants have flippers.

[telerites]

I'd add Exciting 39

 

 

And maybe this one too (again the kid factor)

 

 

 

[Silver Surfer]

Human Torch #12?

[Triston Pence]

As far as Timleys, I would add:

 

Human Torch 12, 13

Marvel Mystery 46

Captain America 46

 

as far as pre-code horror, crime, & esoterics:

 

Daredevil Comics # 11 (very kinky)

Terrific Comics 5

Weird Mysteries 5

Roly Poly 14

Witches Tales 25

Mister Mystery 18

Weird Tales of the Future # 8 (that cover has alot of heart)

Supery Mystery comics volume 6 number 3

[Cat-Man_America]

Here's one that shouldn't be overlooked:

 

[Forbush-Man]

Where's Billy Parker with that Penguin Sleigh Ride cover???

[Flex Mentallo]

I can add a few scans - some already mentioned, some not.

 

This is the cover that most astonished me in the photojournal when I first saw it:

 

 

This one flew under my radar for many years, but is possibly the most disturbing cover I've ever seen:

 

 

This one has arguably the most bizarre dialogue:

 

 

..while these all seem to kind of hang together:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[comicparadox]

Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (or something like that) #14: skulls, bound damsel in distress, evil hypodermic injections and other gruesomeness cover...

 

Perfect Crime #27: hooker in distres cover, implied submission pose...

[BB-Gun]

Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (or something like that) #14: skulls, bound damsel in distress, evil hypodermic injections and other gruesomeness cover...

 

Perfect Crime #27: hooker in distres cover, implied submission pose...

 

Here are a few others you might consider.

 

[sfcityduck]

I don't get what's shocking about the Catman 15. Seems pretty tame.

[comicparadox]

I don't get what's shocking about the Catman 15. Seems pretty tame.

 

Kitten doesn't seem very pleased. Reminiscent of the Crime Does Not Pay cover with the crooks outside a public school luring a little girl into their car. Pederasts are possibly the worst of all criminals.

[Wrightson fan]

I am on my phone, so I am not able to upload my scan, but I have always thought that Ditko's cover to Racket Squad in Action 12 was beyond brutal. The kid is already partially crippled, yet he and his father are being blown to bits by the bomb thrown into their Mom and Pop. Obviously a protection racket payback, but horrific nevertheless.

[BB-Gun]

All of the Crime Does Not Pay covers seem a little gruesome.

[Wrightson fan]

This is a brutal cover as well.

 

 

[BB-Gun]

[Wrightson fan]

I need to pull my scan of Lawbreakers Suspense Stories 12 as well. I think it may be the "creepiest" cover on any book that I own. A guy keeping a dead woman that he murdered in his closet, as the moths and bugs fly around her corpse. She is obviously someone he was stalking as he is way too weird for her to have ever given him a second look. Creepy in that it could truly be real.

[selegue]

Clue Comics 14

JPS

[Wrightson fan]

Clue Comics 14

JPS

 

That cover is awesome. I want one.

[telerites]

What's the one with the photo cover of the girl in the bathing suit on the inflatable horse thingy?

[Forbush-Man]

It's Camp Comics #2