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[Hepcat]

On 5/6/2024 at 7:21 PM, Jaylam said:

You don't have to have super-powers to be a super-jerk.

True, but Teen Titans still had its share of "jerk" covers:

Northland copy

Edited May 7 by Hepcat

[MR SigS]

On 5/6/2024 at 4:21 PM, Jaylam said:

You don't have to have super-powers to be a super-jerk.

 

[Jaylam]

On 5/7/2024 at 12:03 PM, MR SigS said:

 

[Hepcat]

Adventure Comics was replete with jerk covers for the Legion of Super-Heroes:

CGC 9.2

It's no big surprise when women turn against you, but things are really bad when you can't even trust your pets.

Edited Thursday at 01:56 AM by Hepcat

[RockMyAmadeus]

[RockMyAmadeus]

[Hepcat]

Brave and the Bold was an exceptionally bad title when it came to jerk covers:

Edited Wednesday at 03:29 AM by Hepcat

[Silver Surfer]

The absurdity of DC covers. The artists must have been given bonuses for the more ridiculous they were. 

[Hepcat]

DC's teaser "situation" covers are still preferable to Marvel's "carnival barker" style covers.

[Happy Noodle Boy]

On 5/29/2024 at 4:54 PM, Hepcat said:

DC's teaser "situation" covers are still preferable to Marvel's "carnival barker" style covers.

Hard disagree.

[Silver Surfer]

On 5/29/2024 at 1:54 PM, Hepcat said:

DC's teaser "situation" covers are still preferable to Marvel's "carnival barker" style covers.

Don’t want to derail this thread but what exactly were they “teasing” when Superdog is delivering the mail or whatever nonsense they came up with month after month after month for decades.  All those memorable storylines…………………….that no one can remember. Carry on. 

[Frisco Larson]

I haven't seen many examples of Marvel using this Superjerk "style", but this might qualify. 

[Hepcat]

On 5/30/2024 at 11:02 PM, Silver Surfer said:

...but what exactly were they “teasing” when Superdog is delivering the mail or whatever nonsense they came up with month after month after month for decades.  

Not "what" but "who", the who being the typical ten year old enticed to learn why Krypto was delivering the mail.

On 5/30/2024 at 11:02 PM, Silver Surfer said:

All those memorable storylines….

We're talking about covers, not storylines though. I've waxed eloquent about Marvel's competitive strengths, i.e. Stan Lee, in other places such as here:

The covers though were not among Marvel's strengths in the early to mid 1960's. It was the covers that attracted me to DC comics in 1962 and kept me buying DCs until 1965. DC covers were slick. Marvels (and Charltons) looked low-end-of-the-market in comparison.