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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 17, 2021 7:46:57 GMT -5
Logo in the LayoutThanks to everyone for voting for a Darwyn Cooke cover dripping with atmosphere from a ladder-day era. (Sorry.) For this week’s contest, let’s choose covers that include the book’s logo as a part of the cover design. For example: Blackhawk 243, November 1968The Cover Contest Constitution: -Post one, and only one, classic cover that fits the theme of the contest. -Cover must be from a published comic book or collected volume published before 1 February 2011. -Please include also the title of the comic and the issue number in case some posters cannot see your image. -Covers must be posted before voting begins. -Voting takes place on Tuesday, 22 February 2021, beginning at 12:01am PST and ending at 11:59am PST. -Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most. -Put the name of your choice in bold. -The winner of the contest is the entrant with the most votes after the voting period ends. -The winner chooses the theme for the next week's contest. -If you don't think the cover fits the theme, don't vote for it; please don't post disparaging remarks about it. -If a cover is more recent than the classic time frame, kindly point it out to the poster, who then can choose an alternate before voting begins.
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Post by MDG on Feb 17, 2021 8:36:53 GMT -5
I'll go for the obvious...
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 17, 2021 8:53:12 GMT -5
I suspect a couple usual suspects will appear here but I will go with this one...
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 17, 2021 9:18:55 GMT -5
Incredible Hulk Special #1-- Oct. 1968-- Marvel Comics Group
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 17, 2021 9:22:27 GMT -5
Welp, tartan beat me to it.
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 17, 2021 9:29:32 GMT -5
I'll go with the guy who regularly did it best. Cover for the newspaper comic section.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2021 9:33:57 GMT -5
-M
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 17, 2021 10:02:55 GMT -5
AQUAMAN #42: This comic has a special place in my memory, although I didn't buy it off the racks. In fact, I wasn't buying comics at all when this first struck my eye in September 1968, when this hit the stands. I was 8 years old, and I knew Aquaman from his Saturday morning cartoon show, which I liked. Despite digging superheroes on TV, the comic books for some reason just weren't on my radar, a mystery my memory cannot seem to crack. I was aware of them, I took occasional notice of them, and I have strong if not particularly vivid memories of those rare occasions when I did take notice. A neighbor's issue of THREE MOUSEKETEERS, an issue of TEEN TITANS briefly perused at a neighborhood 4th of July party, an unknown comic book that another neighbor had with a house ad for ATOM #32 (June 1967), a haunting glimpse of the "Boiling Man" on WONDER WOMAN #154 (when I was only 5 years old!), an issue of CAPTAIN ("Split!") MARVEL that I thought for years must have been a fever dream, December 1968's SUPERMAN #204 cover, leaving me to wonder why the initials L.L. mean death to the man of steel... ...and AQUAMAN #42. It was at the Memphis International Airport, and I was there with my parents awaiting the arrival of...someone...family, one of my mother's co-workers, I don't know who. Bored, I noticed a small magazine stand, which I remember, perhaps incorrectly, as being outside of the airport shop, out in the terminal aisles. For sale was AQUAMAN #42. I know it was this issue not because of the magnificent Nick Cardy cover, with its impressive coloring and novel integration of the logo on the bottom of the scene, as part of the ocean bed. I know it was this issue because what really blew my young mind was the upper left corner. There, in order to insure that if the comic were blocked by others on the spinner rack, the comic would still be identifiable to browsers, DC's production department stuck in the book's title in a commercial paste-on font. And put it there twice, by spelling "Aquaman" both vertically and horizontally, each sharing the initial 'A'. Which doesn't sound all that amazing, but there's a first time that anyone is exposed to these little design tricks, and this was my first time seeing that. Or noticing it, anyway. And it struck me as so incredibly cool that I wanted to buy the comic right then and there. I remember going back to my parents to ask for a bit of change so I could buy it...and having that request refused. My parents denied me very little, but this 12 cents they did (probably 13 or 14 after taxes). This would have been my first comic drawn by the guy who'd come to be my favorite comic book artist, Jim Aparo. Would it have triggered the same collecting habit that Jack Kirby would a few years later when I bought JIMMY OLSEN #142? Is it some kind of sign that both issue numbers end in 42? I wonder what other 42nd (modulo 100) issues--if any--have an uncommon appeal to me?
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 17, 2021 10:07:51 GMT -5
I'll go with the guy who regularly did it best. Cover for the newspaper comic section.
I totally agree. Eisner is the master.
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Post by MDG on Feb 17, 2021 10:27:09 GMT -5
I'll go with the guy who regularly did it best. Cover for the newspaper comic section.
I totally agree. Eisner is the master. And just to confirm a past ruling: Spirit section splashes are eligible, correct?
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 17, 2021 10:32:41 GMT -5
I totally agree. Eisner is the master. And just to confirm a past ruling: Spirit section splashes are eligible, correct?
I wasn't around for that, but I would assume so-- in the Spirit newspaper Section, the splash page IS the cover. If there's been a past ruling to the contrary, I'd politely disagree and would like to see the justification for excluding them. I'm obviously biased, but if I'm in the minority, so be it.
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 17, 2021 10:35:12 GMT -5
And just to confirm a past ruling: Spirit section splashes are eligible, correct? I wasn't around for that, but I would assume so-- in the Spirit newspaper Section, the splash page IS the cover. If there's been a past ruling to the contrary, I'd like to see the justification.
The same could be said for the above issue of SECRET SIX, since the cover is the splash page, and logical equivalence implies bi-directionality.
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Post by DubipR on Feb 17, 2021 11:17:37 GMT -5
Detective Comics #765 First one that popped in my head.
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 17, 2021 11:43:18 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 17, 2021 12:24:51 GMT -5
I totally agree. Eisner is the master. And just to confirm a past ruling: Spirit section splashes are eligible, correct? That was my understanding. I seem to remember that we did agree they were allowed.
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