KirbyJack Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Alien Legion! Book Guy and Ken Aldred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 The Rattler (though with the fire he appears more lizard-dragon like) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ken Aldred Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 On 5/11/2022 at 1:09 PM, KirbyJack said: Alien Legion! Well done. Should’ve remembered that one. KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Pontoon Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Bill Everett goodness. Jayman, Namtak and Ken Aldred 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Pontoon Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Another Rattler: Get Marwood & I 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namtak Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) One of my favorite coverMike grell such a great artist Edited May 11, 2022 by Namtak Jayman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Qalyar Posted May 11, 2022 Author Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) So, trying to organize this a bit. There are several "body plans" for snake-people, I'll use that to break these out. Arms + tail, no legs (many depictions of naga, lamia, were-snakes, and many of D&D's yuan-ti; upper body may be human-like or reptilian) Adventures into Terror #25 (Atlas, 1953): Males, humanoid upper body with reptilian features. Alien Legion: Male, humanoid alien upper body. Sarigar is one of the main characters in this mil sci-fi series Alien Legion (1st Series) #1-#20 (Marvel, 1984-1987). Sarigar is on many of the covers, and is the series logo on all of them! Alien Legion (2nd Series) #1, #2, #14 (Marvel, 1987-1990). Less cover time for Sarigar this time around. I think he's on #18, but his body shape isn't obvious there. Alien Legion Uncivil War #1-#4 (Titan, 2014). He's cover material for the entire revival mini-series. Conan the Barbarian #164 (Marvel, 1982): Female, human torso with medusa head. Hot Stuf' (Sal Q, 1978): Indeterminate gender, serpentine torso, neck, and head, but with arms. Magazine format. Psycho #4 (Skywald, 1971): Female, human upper body. Magazine format. Savage Sword of Conan #65 (Marvel, 1981): Female, human torso with serpentine head. Magazine format. Secrets of Haunted House #20 (DC, 1980): Female, human upper body. Skeleton Hand #2 (American Comics Group, 1952): Female, human upper body Unexpected #192 (DC, 1979): Male, reptilian upper body. Villains for Hire #1 (Marvel, 2012): Male, essentially human upper body. No arms or legs, humanoid head (this is D&D's version of naga, among others) Adventures into the Unknown #24 (ACG, 1952). Male, reptilian head. Teensy tiny little arms, but certainly not a humanoid torso. I stand by my arbitrary snake categorizations. Conan the Barbarian #7 (Marvel, 1971): Male, medusa head. Fantastic Fears #3 (Farrel, 1953): Male and female, human heads. Arms and legs, but clearly serpentine head (often difficult to distinguish from lizardmen, dragon-people, and other sundry reptiles) Avengers Annual #21 (Marvel, 1992): Male, snake-headed reptilian humanoid (headshot only) Justice League of America #116 (DC, 1975): Male, snake-headed human (a transformed Elongated Man) Masters of the Universe [#34, "King of the Snake Men"] (DC/Mattel, 1986). Male, snake-headed reptilian humanoid. Kull the Conqueror #2 (Marvel, 1971): Male, snake-headed humans. Uncertain-if-it-counts holding pen Eerie #3 (Warren, 1966). Canonically a sea monster, but it's fairly serpentine. Frazetta is always awesome, but not sure if this counts. Super Mystery Comics v2#5, v2#6 (Ace, 1942). Reptilian humanoid but not a serpentine head, despite being named The Cobra. Rawhide Kid #37 (Marvel, 1963). Well, it's a guy in a reptile costume, but he calls himself The Rattler. Warlord #3 (DC, 1976). Canonically, these are lizardmen, not snakes. A fantastic genre cover regardless. Zip Comics #13 (MLJ, 1941). Possibly category 3, but he's breathing fire like a dragon. OTOH, he's named The Rattler, so maybe... Edited May 11, 2022 by Qalyar KirbyJack and Get Marwood & I 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B2D327 Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Just added this one to my own collection too Qalyar, Namtak and Jayman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted May 11, 2022 Author Share Posted May 11, 2022 Updated the summary post with some of the recent candidates. Not included in that list are covers with normal-shaped snakes, no matter how large -- or how awesome the cover is, because a lot of these really are. That's not to say a list of snake covers wouldn't be interesting to put together, it's just not the current project. I'm also leaving out The Thing #15, as the story there is called "The Worm Turns", and explicitly calls the cover monster a super-worm. Ditko monsters are still always cool, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namtak Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 On 5/11/2022 at 11:41 AM, B2D327 said: That eerie 3that one is definetly on my list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted May 11, 2022 Author Share Posted May 11, 2022 On 5/11/2022 at 11:21 AM, Namtak said: That eerie 3that one is definetly on my list! I love that Eerie #3 cover although I'm hesitant to add it to my snakepeople list. It's obviously underwater, and Frazetta officially titled that piece "Sea Monster", if I remember correctly. So I don't think it's actually intended to be a snake-creature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffro. Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 What? No trouser snake covers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 On 5/11/2022 at 5:50 PM, JEFFROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO said: What? No trouser snake covers? Where's Jimmers when you need him This looks a bit like a snake though: @JEFFROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 On 5/11/2022 at 9:25 AM, Qalyar said: I love that Eerie #3 cover although I'm hesitant to add it to my snakepeople list. It's obviously underwater, and Frazetta officially titled that piece "Sea Monster", if I remember correctly. So I don't think it's actually intended to be a snake-creature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_snake They're not mutually exclusive... and the cover is great enough that I think you should lean into it. B2D327 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...