Has a cover ever deterred you from an issue?

[kav]

I don't like covers that depict animals being killed, which was a fairly common sight on GA covers. I've passed on a number of issues for that reason.

 

easy fix-just have stan lee sign over that part

[Crimebuster]

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[Crimebuster]

So I've been having this dilemma for a while. I really like Wonder Woman 177, however I hate about 5% of the cover. The artist utterly butchered Wonder Womans face and she looks like a tranny which is greatly disheartening and making me second guess if I should purchase the issue.

 

Have any of you had a similar experience where you want an issue but something relatively minor is a huge turn off?

 

I'm aware of the "Keys with covers you don't like" thread, I think this is somewhat different.

 

I think I described Wonder Woman on this cover as a chain-smoking iron worker.

 

The story is interesting, mainly for what a total Wonder Woman is from start to finish. It's also written by Bill Finger, which is a curiosity, as he actually got credit for this one. But really, this issue is a waste of Supergirl.

[darkstar]

What Marvel and DC have done with their covers drives me up the wall.

 

This, in my opinion, is a great cover on a modern book:

 

 

Its really too bad half the page is cluttered with an advertisement for Arrow, a title of the current story arc, an excessively large book title, and a proclamation of "the new 52!"

 

Does the new 52 still need to be plastered on every cover? Most of DC's books are now approaching issue #30, they still have "new 52" on the covers.

 

The text on the covers doesn't add anything to the art anymore. Here is an older book I picked up today simply because of the cover art:

 

 

the text there isn't distracting and fits with the art.

 

Marvel covers are even worse.

[stanley1883]

I don't like covers that depict animals being killed, which was a fairly common sight on GA covers. I've passed on a number of issues for that reason.

 

Great call, I wholeheartedly agree.

[Treco]

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How dare you shame Wallace & Gromit like that...

 

I buy very few modern comics. Covers like this are not motivating me to buy more.

[dupont2005]

A first issue sure. But after I've decided I liked a comic and was following it, I don't actually pay a whole lot of attention to the cover.

[rapid08]

I think its pretty safe to say I will never own either st110 or nm98 simply due to their covers.

[porcupine48]

there were a few What If covers in the early 1990s that were so terrible I did not buy the comic.

[Davenport]

Does the new 52 still need to be plastered on every cover? Most of DC's books are now approaching issue #30, they still have "new 52" on the covers.

Having "New 52" still on covers gives hope it will cease to be some point. Something to be milked and discarded.

For DC to stop pimping it, yet leave it in place, is one scary thought.

[Brian48]

It hasn't prevented me from buying the book since I'm a completionist when it comes to Adams Bats, but I was in no hurry to add a copy to my collection nor was I going to pay for a high priced, slabbed hi-grade.

 

[Erndog]

It hasn't prevented me from buying the book since I'm a completionist when it comes to Adams Bats, but I was in no hurry to add a copy to my collection nor was I going to pay for a high priced, slabbed hi-grade.

 

 

[joe_collector]

I absolutely loved the 1976-77 Avengers books as a kid, but I find it impossible to collect them now because of all the horrible "70's Kirby" covers.

 

It's just one after another after another..

 

 

 

[LanceTX]

Only if it says the word Chaykin on the cover somewhere.

[Dr. Balls]

Yes. I do not own Rob Liefeld covers or anything he's published under Image or Maximum. I've bought and tried to hang onto NM98 several times, each time I feel dirty just having that turd in my collection, so I sell it. All the other Image drek he krapped out just gets thrown away. I dislike him and his work for a variety of reasons as I believe he is unprofessional and unethical and a guy who doesn't give credit when he copies someone's work and a scam artist who gets out of trouble by settling out of court.

 

/rant

[joe_collector]

I dislike him and his work for a variety of reasons as I believe he is unprofessional and unethical and a guy who doesn't give credit when he copies someone's work and a scam artist who gets out of trouble by settling out of court.

 

/rant

 

So I guess you collect any Stan Lee comics either?

 

Not standing up for Liefield, but my God, if you're looking for saints this is not the right hobby for you.

[FineCollector]

I put off finishing 80's Captain America for a very long time because there was a stretch of Paul Neary covers where Cap's face looks like a foot