Silver Age Favorite Covers Contest

[mica]

Silver Age fans rejoice. It's finally here.

Although it's been argued when exactly the Silver Age starts and ends, there seems to be a consensus that it started with the Arrival of Showase # 4 in September 1956 and ended with the arrival of Conan, October 1970.

I have started a thumbnail catalogue of numerous and worthy Silver Age Covers

here at this Web Page--> Cover Gallery

 

If you see where you feel I have missed a really good Silver Cover then let me know.

Feel free to nominate some covers (please don't nominate more than 5).

There will be no obligation on your part to vote for any book you nominate, so study the gallery closely, and start picking out your top ten.

Yes........ TEN. I want you to be able to vote for ten covers in order of importance to you.

You'll have until Saint Patrick's Day March 17 to figure out which books are your favorites.

At Midnight (after you've consumed green beverages or whatever it is you do) you may submit your ten votes to myself and ComicBookGuy (Joe).

You must tell me and Joe so that we can match up the results later.

And speaking of results, the votes will be weighted.

 

1st favorite cover (#1) = 10 points

2nd favorite cover (#2) = 9 points

3rd favorite cover (#3) = 8 points

4th favorite cover (#4) = 7 points

5th favorite cover (#5) = 6 points

6th favorite cover (#6) = 5 points

7th favorite cover (#7) = 4 points

8th favorite cover (#8) = 3 points

9th favorite cover (#9) = 2 points

10th favorite cover (#10) = 1 points

At the end of the voting, the covers with the most points win.

In the event of a tie, the cover with the most #1 votes will win over one that has fewer. If neither has a #1 vote, the one with the most #2 votes will win, or #3, etc.

 

Voting will end on March 28 Midnight (eastern) in spite of what the Forum clock says.

Then the votes will be counted by highly trained, yet unemployable seals.

After a few days of hearing them bark out the results we will start revealing them before and possibly during April Fools Day.

Make your selections wisely. The fate of mankind hangs in the balance.

 

PLEASE LOOK CLOSELY AT THE TEXT ABOVE. THERE IS A LINK THAT SOME OF YOU DON'T BOTHER TO READ. I've even made it BOLD .

[VintageComics]

 

Is there more than one JIM #89 nomination allowed by the same person?

[october]

Are we forced to pick from the list of nominations? There are a ton of great covers from the silver age and you missed a bunch.

[VintageComics]

BTW, i think it is a no contest that FF #12, DD#7, JIM #83, B+B #34, Sea Devils #1 and some Showcase covers should also be on the list (esp. #27)....as well as the KING KONG WHITMAN COMICS GIANT CLASSIC 1968 treasury size...

 

[VintageComics]

Are we forced to pick from the list of nominations? There are a ton of great covers from the silver age and you missed a bunch.

 

See above post

[october]

Silver Surfer 3 should be on there, same with TOS 58, X-Men 56, Tomahawk 116, Teen Titans 14, Strange Adventures 212...

[october]

Here is a late silver age beauty, and a shoe-in for my top ten. Yes. That's right. I am putting a Robin cover in my top ten. Someone who hates Robin with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. Nick Cardy is THAT fugging good. 17 will likely make it too.

 

[mar-vell]

FF5,FF12,spidey3,spidey20,spidey1,hulk1&2,tos 39,nick fury 1 &5, x-men 58, strange tales 167, avengers 4,silver surfer 1& 4, FF4 the list goes on & on!

[mica]

strange tales 167

It's already there.

avengers 4

Someone beat you to it, working on it.

 

silver surfer 4

Again .... it's there.....

the list goes on & on!

Yeah........ apparently if you don't see everything one would think that.

[mar-vell]

yeah i didn't read the whole thread at first and just though we were all throwing out ideas about best covers!

[RDK]

Here is a late silver age beauty, and a shoe-in for my top ten. Yes. That's right. I am putting a Robin cover in my top ten. Someone who hates Robin with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. Nick Cardy is THAT fugging good. 17 will likely make it too.

 

 

Cardy's run of TT covers rivals just about anything imo, including Neal Adams' Batman. Wonderful stuff, and mostly unheralded.

[RDK]

I'm glad we'll be able to vote on ten of 'em as there are a lot of great ones. My nominees will be in shortly...

[divad]

You really ARE a sissy!

 

Here is a late silver age beauty, and a shoe-in for my top ten. Yes. That's right. I am putting a Robin cover in my top ten. Someone who hates Robin with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. Nick Cardy is THAT fugging good. 17 will likely make it too.

 

[october]

You really ARE a sissy!

 

You know you like that cover too you tool.

[october]

Silver Surfer 3 should be on there, same with TOS 58, X-Men 56, Tomahawk 116, Teen Titans 14, Strange Adventures 212...

 

Scans by request...

 

 

 

[VintageComics]

a few more scans (not like that sissy Robin cover.....is there such a thing as chick comics?)

 

 

 

 

[sckao]

[mica]

some Showcase covers should also be on the list (esp. #27)....as well as the KING KONG WHITMAN COMICS GIANT CLASSIC 1968 treasury size...

There are Showcase covers on the list. Look closely.

As far as KING KONG WHITMAN COMICS GIANT CLASSIC 1968 treasury size... Do you have a scan?

[mica]

 

Is there more than one JIM #89 nomination allowed by the same person?

I never understood this. The JIM 89 was on the top of the page. 5th image over.

[comicdonna]

So 10 favorite covers are to be chosen in order of importance. What is the prize for whoever gets all 10 in the correct order.