Your Favorite All-Time Cover (w/Explanation)

[FlyingDonut]

Fabulous! Welcome to the Boards.

[Sal]

hey, thanks! glad to be here. lots of good people with good info, by my reading.

 

anyone seen my signed copy of "The Art of John Byrne?"

 

oh wait...there it is. nevermind

[sfilosa]

Probably my favorite cover of the 50's (at least of books I own).

 

It just symbolizes the 50's (as in, "what the heck are they talking about"), regarding movies and books.

[shiverbones]

too tough a call to pick one. Of the books I own its one of these two:

 

This one is just as perfect a cover as can be, Dynamic composition, motion that bursts off of the page as well as a VERY bold coloring scheme:

 

 

or this Wrightson classic, again Beautiful colors and dynamic composition...

 

 

of cover I do not own, its probably Weird Tales of the Future #3 by Wolverton for its sheer bizarre nature!

[Norrin_Radd]

for the newer members.

 

Favorite Swamp Thing cover...

 

[500]

I only have a few comics scanned, but of those these are my two favorite covers. I love the action on the Iron Man cover, all too often is he looked over as to who the most powerful heros are, and this cover shows just how bold, daring, and powerful he is.

 

 

I love this cover because Man Thing and the swamp are so menacing to the Micronauts. As I recall, they wind up in his swamp by accident, completely overwhelmed by him and the surrounding environment, this is just a well crafted work of suspensful art.

 

[Silver Surfer]

My all-time favorite cover is ASM#238. I started reading Spidey when I was about six or seven years old, but didn't start "collecting" comics (by which I mean I didn't try to keep them in mint condition) until about 1982, after reading the special 16 page "Marvel Comics Guide to Collecting Comics" insert in ASM#234. Four months later, ASM#238 hit the stands. It was the most incredible cover I'd ever seen up to that point, and I haven't seen one that struck me in the same way ever since.

 

 

A couple of years later, Marvel released what I think was the best three-issue consecutive set of covers, in Amazing Spider-Man #249-251.

 

Scott don't forget issue #232, #239 and #245, no collection would be complete without a copy of these. I felt the same way as a kid, these issues really blew me away. My how Jr. Jr's work has fallen off since the glory days of the 80's.

 

[Silver Surfer]

And of course how can I leave these out. Too hard to pick just one cover as these Byrne issues had a similar impact on me. I tell you we were really spoiled back then. DC who?

[bullseye]

that FF 39 is sick, gonna have to get a copy eventually (dad is a FF fan and ima DD fan so it erm has to be purchased sooner or later)

[shrunkenhead]

My favorite cover. No doubt about it.

 

 

 

It just mixes all the things I love best in comics. A little scary, a little funy, a little bit perverse. and a little bit subversive.

[bullseye]

 

This one basically covers everything Daredevil is about ya know? fighting to protect his city high above to street, kinda nifty with the combined photograph/painting too.

[Sal]

I love this cover because Man Thing and the swamp are so menacing to the Micronauts. As I recall, they wind up in his swamp by accident, completely overwhelmed by him and the surrounding environment, this is just a well crafted work of suspensful art.

 

 

Hey, great! Showing Michael Golden some love!

[Norrin_Radd]

for newer members (i.e. Timulty )

[Timulty]

Well, lets see. Kinda like this one but not my all-time favorite. Fond of it because it is the best cover in my collection, I guess. It's a lower grade Church Copy.

 

[Norrin_Radd]

The only Captain Marvel cover I really like is Special Edition Comics. Comiclink has one that's almost within my price range.

 

 

[Timulty]

Actually, I would buy the one at Esquire. Just can't convince Mark to give me a year to buy it.

[Durden08]

ONE of my favorites anyway. USA Comics #7. Great Schomberg cover that's a break from his mostly red covers on the Marvel Mystery series. Just a classic image of Cap in action.

 

[Mr. Zipper]

I just picked up a nice copy of this book at the National. This cover was at the top of my want list.

 

Dark, sinister and sadistic. Looks like it could be a still photo from the twisted mind of David Lynch.