What's your least favorite Neal Adams cover?

[Walls]

Batman 227. Never saw the reason for all the excitement.

 

227 is a beautiful swipe of a classic golden age cover, but I too still don't get all of the fuss over this book. It has no real "key" significance as far content/continuity and I still find it hard to believe that the market dictates that this book at a 9.0 can easily sell for about the same as a 232 at 9.2-9.4 or 234 at 9.4.

 

Off the top of my head... my least favorite Neal Adams cover... Batman 231

 

 

Yea, that's the one.

 

 

Yup, fugly

 

And what's so cool about being able to see people though your fingers? I mean I could see some interesting applications but I think if that was on a menu of potential super powers I could choose from including others such as robust head of hair and eat 5000 calories a day and not gain a pound, that one would be at the bottom of my list.

[etanick]

the ears are just bonker. I don't mind the fingers just as the Bernie Wrighton cover that had a similar concept.

[Walls]

Yea, the ears are kind of ridiculous but I guess having dude's faces on your fingers was kind of hip back in the seventies.

 

[MediumLover]

 

[mrlatko]

Yea, the ears are kind of ridiculous but I guess having dude's faces on your fingers was kind of hip back in the seventies.

 

 

Berni W. and Neal are known as masters of the faces on fingers genre. Wait, maybe I'm thinking of horror genre with those guys.

[bronzilla]

[Walls]

OMG that is hideous.

[etanick]

there is no way to make Jimmy Carter "pretty"

[Wrightson fan]

 

 

I did not realize that Jimmy Carter was a vampire.....check out the frikkin' canine!

[dover]

 

#1 worst ever.

 

 

That is of course ingnoring most of the Continuity covers, correct?

 

[John R]

 

#1 worst ever.

 

 

That is of course ingnoring most of the Continuity covers, correct?

 

[Brian48]

 

I actually don't dislike this cover. It was meant to be satire and a caricature, so I suppose it's drawn appropriately for that purpose. I don't think he brain-farted on this one like some of the others.

[Sal]

Batman 227. Never saw the reason for all the excitement.

 

Sorry, I just always found it boring. Isn't it taken from another cover?

 

the Robin cameo art is distracting, and the whole concept of some chick in taffeta running away from a guy in a purple, caped suit and his brace of wolves is stupid.

[Walls]

Batman 227. Never saw the reason for all the excitement.

 

Sorry, I just always found it boring. Isn't it taken from another cover?

 

the Robin cameo art is distracting, and the whole concept of some chick in taffeta running away from a guy in a purple, caped suit and his brace of wolves is stupid.

 

[Gatsby77]

Yeah--easily some of his Continuity covers. Ugh.

 

or that recent Green Lantern variant cover with Green Arrow on it.

 

[Clouded9]

Yea, the ears are kind of ridiculous but I guess having dude's faces on your fingers was kind of hip back in the seventies.

 

 

Berni W. and Neal are known as masters of the faces on fingers genre. Wait, maybe I'm thinking of horror genre with those guys.

 

Maybe we can ask Gemma to create a "Faces On Fingers" registry set.

 

It wouldn't be the first registry set with only two books. Or maybe three books if you count JLA #10...

 

[rjpb]

 

I actually don't dislike this cover. It was meant to be satire and a caricature, so I suppose it's drawn appropriately for that purpose. I don't think he brain-farted on this one like some of the others.

 

Yeah, but it's a lousy caricature - even with the trademark Adams shading lines.

[Legion HQ]

 

#1 worst ever.

 

 

That is of course ingnoring most of the Continuity covers, correct?

 

Why I oughtta!

 

 

And on my 365th post. That's the power of this cover hotdammit!

[otherworldsj33]

Batman 227. Never saw the reason for all the excitement.

 

Sorry, I just always found it boring. Isn't it taken from another cover?

 

the Robin cameo art is distracting, and the whole concept of some chick in taffeta running away from a guy in a purple, caped suit and his brace of wolves is stupid.

 

Thats somethng I never saw before, or even imagined. Odd, almost jarring to my eyes, and brain. Maybe because I have never seen it any other way, and have seen it 100's, if not maybe over a 1,000 times in its printed form. I have to look it at for a while, let it sink in. Just looks like it is almost naked, incomplete, barren. Glad you posted it though. A different perspective.

[jimjum12]

Batman 227. Never saw the reason for all the excitement.

 

Sorry, I just always found it boring. Isn't it taken from another cover?

 

the Robin cameo art is distracting, and the whole concept of some chick in taffeta running away from a guy in a purple, caped suit and his brace of wolves is stupid.

 

Thats somethng I never saw before, or even imagined. Odd, almost jarring to my eyes, and brain. Maybe because I have never seen it any other way, and have seen it 100's, if not maybe over a 1,000 times in its printed form. I have to look it at for a while, let it sink in. Just looks like it is almost naked, incomplete, barren. Glad you posted it though. A different perspective.

 

I'm the same way, Joe. It's a great cover......just not classic. I'd take a 'tec 400, 402, or 405 anyday. Batman 244 or 251 totally blow 227 right off the map. GOD BLESS....

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u