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It's a key, but wow is that cover ugly!
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NM 98 - not a bad cover in terms of layout.. The drawings just suck

ST 110 - bad cover

Marvel Comics 1 - not my fav, doesn't look to me like a comic book cover (in the classic sense)

GL 1 - bad; I've always hated that puppet

 

I nominate FF 48 and BA 12

 

There's a reason I always think #49 is the cover to #48, whenever I see it.

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Star Wars #1

 

I don't hate it, but for sure it's ugly... And poorly drawn.

 

Is Vader smoking a novelty pipe shaped like Leia's head? Has she been decapitated? The shape of the ships is ridiculous. Luke looks like He-Man... Vaders green, weirdly shaped, helm...

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Nobody has mentioned Strange Tales Annual 2 yet. The Kirby Spider-Man is a wreck on the cover.

 

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well that one reminds me of ASM 16 and to a lesser extent ASM 10

 

 

 

 

 

Like this one too... The ASM 16 anyway, HATE the STA2

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Nothing wrong with this, I actually like it? Same goes with the Hulk #1, simple but very cool. (shrug)

 

I have no problem with simple at all, but I find the pose to be very awkward, the hands especially reach Ditko-levels of awkwardness. The framing is straight on medium shot, kinda bland, nothing is really happening, the colors are dull, the lighting is inconsistent... I'm an art director and if one of my designers submitted this I would reject it immediately.

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I don't think there is a thing wrong with the hands. They aren't hands. They are metal gloves with overlapping plates. They are drawn as such. (shrug) Metal suits, even futuristic ones, weren't conceived of as being form fitting in 1963.

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I guess we just see things differently. The left hand is an awkward attempt at foreshortening, and the right hand, along with the hunched posture, makes it look like he's having a good cough. I bet he let one rip in his armor.

 

BTW I do love this book

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well that one reminds me of ASM 16 and to a lesser extent ASM 10

 

 

I think ASM #16 is one of Ditko's better Spidey poses - he's lithe, fluid.

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well that one reminds me of ASM 16 and to a lesser extent ASM 10

 

 

 

 

 

What is with the circus bars in the middle of nowhere in the silver age issues.

 

That story happens at the circus. No, it actually does.

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