Best Looking Covers as a Series 4 4

[aardvark88]

Guess no love for Nick Fury 1-18 volume 1 covers: Steranko, Steranko-clones, Barry W. Smith, Kirby/Severin.

[THE_BEYONDER]

[nepatkm]

Tomb of Dracula 🧛‍♂️… Happy Halloween all 🎃 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 10/28/2022 at 8:36 PM, nepatkm said:

Tomb of Dracula 🧛‍♂️… Happy Halloween all 🎃 

That's 75 beauties!

[Point Five]

Another one that occurs to me is Sandman. Dave McKean did some really gorgeous, groundbreaking covers throughout the run. Actually, most of the Vertigo titles (Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Animal Man, etc) were also pretty high-quality throughout.
 

Edited October 29, 2022 by Point Five

[Ken Aldred]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KirbyJack]

Weird Science was among the first titles that occurred to me. EC had consistently excellent covers. Then there are those cool Simon Bisley covered Doom Patrols, the entire Mignola-verse…but, here’s where I’m living.

[whomerjay]

On 10/28/2022 at 6:35 PM, Point Five said:

It's surprisingly hard to think of too many series that had *consistently* great covers. Probably stems from the journeyman nature of the business... artists were constantly being rotated through lots of different titles. (And from the publishers' standpoint, if an artist feels like they 'belong' to a title, they're gonna want more money!)

With that said, Planet Comics (1940s-1950s) deserves a shout out. Easily 1/2 to 2/3rds of the run are great covers, and not too many clunkers.

100% agree. 73 issues and what, maybe all but 10 strike one as “gotta have”? 

I’d venture to say that for GA collectors this title is in the discussion for most popular non-superhero title. Perhaps certain EC’s are more popular (?) but the appeal of this title seems to have taken off last 5-10 years.

[Cat]

I'm going to go for an easy one here: Marvels. Those covers make me feel something I didn't know comics were able to at that time. The majesty behind them is breathtaking. 

[Readcomix]

Two under the radar picks from Marshall Rogers: the last few issues of the original Mr Miracle run, and, especially, his run on Dr Strange.

[Robot Man]

On 10/29/2022 at 5:27 AM, whomerjay said:

100% agree. 73 issues and what, maybe all but 10 strike one as “gotta have”? 

I’d venture to say that for GA collectors this title is in the discussion for most popular non-superhero title. Perhaps certain EC’s are more popular (?) but the appeal of this title seems to have taken off last 5-10 years.

Maybe, but Planet and ECs, back even in the Stone Age of collecting were always “table books” while their lessor competitor counter parts were relegated to unbagged boxes under the table. Most of those have taken off to the moon over time as well. 

[Robot Man]

On 10/28/2022 at 8:52 PM, Ken Aldred said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woody!   

[Robot Man]

On 10/28/2022 at 2:21 PM, whomerjay said:

Seven Seas 1-6

Mask 1-2

Power Comics (1944-5) 1-4

Crusader from Mars 1-2

Silver Surfer 1-18

Here, I can help you out on a couple of these. I really only like the last 4 covers of Seven Seas. The #2 is a Canada copy. (US #5)

[Robot Man]

On 10/29/2022 at 5:15 AM, KirbyJack said:

Weird Science was among the first titles that occurred to me. EC had consistently excellent covers. Then there are those cool Simon Bisley covered Doom Patrols, the entire Mignola-verse…but, here’s where I’m living.

All great choices. I would have to throw in these too.

[KirbyJack]

Shoulda.

[jdandns]

Mr. Machine becomes a man by BWS.

 

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/29/2022 at 3:33 PM, Robot Man said:

Maybe, but Planet and ECs, back even in the Stone Age of collecting were always “table books” while their lessor competitor counter parts were relegated to unbagged boxes under the table. Most of those have taken off to the moon over time as well. 

Absolutely. Back in the 70s, ECs, as well as Carl Barks Duck comics, were extremely hot books.

Edited October 30, 2022 by Ken Aldred

[Pantodude]

This Hulk series (1999) is pretty cool, and here's the first 11 issues.  #s 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 11 are really something to behold in hand (the colors!), but they all have their charm.  I have 12 through 50, too, but just trying to give a sense here.  Many of those covers also have an interesting color scheme. 1-11, in order (old dark pix, sorry):   

  #1

   #2

  #3

 #4

 #5

 #6

 #7

 #8

 #9

 #10

 #11

Edited November 3, 2022 by Pantodude

[Robot Man]

[gradejunky]

Love alot of those GA runs, and the Kirby FF books for sure.  As for much more modern runs, I would give it hands down to JG Jones for his 52 covers for the series aptly named 52.  Here are some of the standouts:

Edited November 4, 2022 by gradejunky