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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 25, 2021 10:24:37 GMT -5
For this week's Classic Cover Contest, let's see characters holding other characters--carrying the injured, cradling the deceased, embracing the beloved, or anything that puts one character in the arms of another. The Rules: - Post one, and only one, classic cover that fits the theme of the contest. - Cover must be from a published comic book, comic-related magazine, or collected volume published before September 2011. - Please include also the title of the comic and the issue number in case some posters cannot see your image. (For example: Go-Go #9, Oct 1967) - Covers must be posted before voting begins. - Voting takes place on Tuesday, 31 August 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. Please 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 may then choose an alternate before voting begins. My entry, from the pen of yesterday's birthday boy, who would have been starting his 90th year today, is one you might find familiar if you stuck through my alphabet contest to the end: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #105, February 1973, drawn by Jim Aparo:
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 25, 2021 10:44:02 GMT -5
Dracula Lives! #3 (October, 1973). Cover by Neal Adams.
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 25, 2021 11:13:33 GMT -5
Green Lantern #86-- Oct-Nov 1971-- National Periodical Publications (DC Comics)
cover art by Neal Adams
I think the best aspect of this cover is the sea of faces in the background... representing all of humanity.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 25, 2021 11:20:50 GMT -5
Earliest example I can find - Detective Picture Stories #3, Feb. 1937, cover by J. Milt Wilcox.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2021 11:20:57 GMT -5
was gonna go with a classic DC cover (which I'm sure will show up). . but instead going with this Iconic Marvel cover: X-men 136
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Post by Graphic Autist on Aug 25, 2021 11:46:05 GMT -5
Crisis On Infinite Earths #7
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 25, 2021 11:46:42 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 25, 2021 11:46:55 GMT -5
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Aug 25, 2021 11:51:19 GMT -5
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 25, 2021 12:01:32 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 25, 2021 12:12:11 GMT -5
John Romita:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2021 12:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by james on Aug 25, 2021 12:22:28 GMT -5
Wow talk about a creepy cover. My how times have changed.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 25, 2021 13:25:28 GMT -5
Girls' Love Stories #63, DC, 1959I picked this one up a couple of weeks ago!
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Post by MDG on Aug 25, 2021 13:32:38 GMT -5
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