WIZARD'S 100 Greatest Covers

[s-man]

Anyway, on to the *real* #10!

 

 

100 Best Covers #10: Captain America #193 (1976)

 

 

 

 

Jack Kirby's famous Cap pose (inked by John Romita Sr.) was the most licensed Cap graphic of the 1970s and '80s, adorning everything from mugs to beach towels. "It was never meant to be printed," says Romita Sr. "It was a demo for a 3-D effect, which never happened. That's why that fist is so big!"

 

THATS BETTER!!

 

(Shouldve known it was a joke with the constipation and DieHard references!! )

[Jgel]

Anyway, on to the *real* #10!

 

 

100 Best Covers #10: Captain America #193 (1976)

 

 

 

 

Jack Kirby's famous Cap pose (inked by John Romita Sr.) was the most licensed Cap graphic of the 1970s and '80s, adorning everything from mugs to beach towels. "It was never meant to be printed," says Romita Sr. "It was a demo for a 3-D effect, which never happened. That's why that fist is so big!"

 

Cool cover but top 10 all time??? I'm not sure about that. It is better than most on the list I guess

[Mephisto]

Read carefully, the Youngblood thing is a joke....

 

I was wondering since the Ditko quote mentioned constipation and all...but it is Wizard and they use to write stuff like that in their issues especially when answering people's letters about the 1st appearance or what not in a comic, so I wouldn't ahve been surprised if they really put it on the list. And I thought perhaps it was really the comic and Bradley was so disgusted that he merely changed the text that Wizard originally had.

[Illiterati-migration]

 

 

100 Best Covers #11: Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (1985)

 

 

 

 

Whoa. This cover gesture of a saddened character holding another has been used since Michelangelo's Pieta statue (most notably, THOR # 124's Odin holding Thor, and UNCANNY X-MEN # 136's Cyclops holding Phoenix), but George Perez's riveting cover stands out because it's *Superman* grieving over the lifeless body of Supergirl.

 

[Mephisto]

Anyway, on to the *real* #10!

 

 

100 Best Covers #10: Captain America #193 (1976)

 

 

 

 

Jack Kirby's famous Cap pose (inked by John Romita Sr.) was the most licensed Cap graphic of the 1970s and '80s, adorning everything from mugs to beach towels. "It was never meant to be printed," says Romita Sr. "It was a demo for a 3-D effect, which never happened. That's why that fist is so big!"

 

Cool cover but top 10 all time??? I'm not sure about that. It is better than most on the list I guess

 

Where's the cool Steranko cover?

[COI]

ASM #50 better be in the top 5......

[BradleyX2]

 

 

 

100 Best Covers #9: Crime SuspenStories #22 (1954)

 

 

 

 

This Johnny Craig cover turned heads. Including those of the U.S. Senate, which used it as evidence in the '50s hearings deploring the violent, depraved content of comic books. The hearings frightened publishers into creating the suppressive Comics Code, which sent SUSPENSTORIES publisher EC Comics spiraling into a sales plunge.

[Bonds25]

Anyway, on to the *real* #10!

 

 

100 Best Covers #10: Captain America #193 (1976)

 

Come on - enough with the joking around! What is the "real" #10??

[BradleyX2]

 

 

 

100 Best Covers #8: Marvels #2 (1993)

 

 

 

 

This seminal Alex Ross cover does exactly what a cover should - it tells you a mini-story. The X-Men's Angel (note the symbolism), rescuing a disfigured mutant girl away from an angry mob, was so powerful that Marvel used it as a huge promo poster for the mini-series. Ross also notes, "It's my first Alfred E. Nueman image, with the back of his head appearing in the crowd scene."

[seank]

 

 

100 Best Covers #9: Crime SuspenStories #22 (1954)

 

 

 

 

This Johnny Craig cover turned heads. Including those of the U.S. Senate, which used it as evidence in the '50s hearings deploring the violent, depraved content of comic books. The hearings frightened publishers into creating the suppressive Comics Code, which sent SUSPENSTORIES publisher EC Comics spiraling into a sales plunge.

 

William Gaines, when asked if he thought this cover was in bad taste during the Senate hearings, said it wasn't. He sealed his fate when he said that bad taste would be showing the blood coming from the severed head.

[s-man]

 

 

100 Best Covers #9: Crime SuspenStories #22 (1954)

 

 

 

 

This Johnny Craig cover turned heads. Including those of the U.S. Senate, which used it as evidence in the '50s hearings deploring the violent, depraved content of comic books. The hearings frightened publishers into creating the suppressive Comics Code, which sent SUSPENSTORIES publisher EC Comics spiraling into a sales plunge.

 

William Gaines, when asked if he thought this cover was in bad taste during the Senate hearings, said it wasn't. He sealed his fate when he said that bad taste would be showing the blood coming from the severed head.

 

Now that is an artist!!!

[ultimatevenom]

 

 

100 Best Covers #8: Marvels #2 (1993)

 

 

 

 

This seminal Alex Ross cover does exactly what a cover should - it tells you a mini-story. The X-Men's Angel (note the symbolism), rescuing a disfigured mutant girl away from an angry mob, was so powerful that Marvel used it as a huge promo poster for the mini-series. Ross also notes, "It's my first Alfred E. Nueman image, with the back of his head appearing in the crowd scene."

 

You have got to be kidding

[BradleyX2]

You have got to be kidding

 

 

Nope!

[BradleyX2]

 

 

 

100 Best Covers #7: Daredevil #184 (1982)

 

 

 

 

The most in-yo'-face of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson's DD covers, both the image and tagline perplex you with why DD's aiming a .44 Magnum! "I actually tried to trace that cover a couple of times," says current DD writer Brian Michael Bendis. "That's Frank Miller at the height of his Clint Eastwood phase. I love that cover."

[Jgel]

 

 

100 Best Covers #8: Marvels #2 (1993)

 

 

 

 

This seminal Alex Ross cover does exactly what a cover should - it tells you a mini-story. The X-Men's Angel (note the symbolism), rescuing a disfigured mutant girl away from an angry mob, was so powerful that Marvel used it as a huge promo poster for the mini-series. Ross also notes, "It's my first Alfred E. Nueman image, with the back of his head appearing in the crowd scene."

 

You have got to be kidding

 

That is not even the best cover for that series.

[Jgel]

 

 

100 Best Covers #7: Daredevil #184 (1982)

 

 

 

 

The most in-yo'-face of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson's DD covers, both the image and tagline perplex you with why DD's aiming a .44 Magnum! "I actually tried to trace that cover a couple of times," says current DD writer Brian Michael Bendis. "That's Frank Miller at the height of his Clint Eastwood phase. I love that cover."

 

Again....another cool cover but top 10 of all time?

[FFB]

Bradley, I am loving your new sleestack avatar.

 

First Season Land of the Lost rocked Saturday mornings of my youth!

At least half the episodes, the ones with the Sleestacks waking up!

Didn't care for the ones with the cute prototype-Wookies though (is that your avatar FFB?)

 

My avatar is Chaka. He was a neanderthal, not a wookie prototype.

 

I thought Chaka would be an appropriate avatar for me, in view of my character in Joanna's Crisis storyline.

[BradleyX2]

 

 

 

100 Best Covers #6: Amazing Spider-Man #39 (1966)

 

 

 

 

The cover says it all! "That's an image that really hit a lot of readers right in the face," says Alex Ross, an unabashed fan of John Romita Sr.'s cover. "Nothing like that had been done in comics before, where the villain discovers the hero's secret identity. And it was blatantly shown for all the world to see."

[Mephisto]

 

 

100 Best Covers #6: Amazing Spider-Man #39 (1966)

 

 

 

 

The cover says it all! "That's an image that really hit a lot of readers right in the face," says Alex Ross, an unabashed fan of John Romita Sr.'s cover. "Nothing like that had been done in comics before, where the villain discovers the hero's secret identity. And it was blatantly shown for all the world to see."

[NewtSamson]