Classic Cover Contest 15 Dec2021 to 22 Dec 2021: Bob Brown
Dec 15, 2021 14:50:12 GMT -5
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Classic Cover Contest: 15 December 2021 to 22 December 2021: Bob Brown
I’m glad so many of you liked that Biro cover and that several of you liked it enough to vote for it. I hadn’t seen it before and felt it was not your typical Statue of Liberty cover and figured it deserved a viewing. The same held true for Mister Spaceman’s choice, but like Kirby, he beat me to it and sent me looking again.
For this week’s contest, I‘m asking everyone to submit his or her favorite cover drawn by an artist I regard as unappreciated: Bob Brown. Brown's career, spent mostly at DC, ran from the early 50s to the later 70s, mainly on such second-tier titles as Tomahawk, Challengers of the Unknown, Doom Patrol, the 50s sf titles, and war books.
However, Brown did covers and stories for Superboy and Detective for five years (1968-73) before migrating to Marvel, where he was the top artist on Daredevil for three years, Avengers for a year and a batch of other titles from Dracula Lives to Ghost Rider during his five-year stint there.
I hope you are pleasantly surprised by searching for covers that will run the gamut in style, genre, and era, and I'm hoping that if you don’t know Brown’s work, you’ll stumble on examples of a not-so-well-known talent who I think, more than holds his own as a draftsman and master of emotions.
Good luck, one and all!
The 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 22 December 2011.
- Please include the title and the issue number of the comic in case some posters cannot see your image.
(For example: Doom Patrol 116)
- Covers must be posted before voting begins.
- Voting takes place on Tuesday, 22 December 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 in bold.
- And please put the name of your cover in bold as well.
- 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.
I’m glad so many of you liked that Biro cover and that several of you liked it enough to vote for it. I hadn’t seen it before and felt it was not your typical Statue of Liberty cover and figured it deserved a viewing. The same held true for Mister Spaceman’s choice, but like Kirby, he beat me to it and sent me looking again.
For this week’s contest, I‘m asking everyone to submit his or her favorite cover drawn by an artist I regard as unappreciated: Bob Brown. Brown's career, spent mostly at DC, ran from the early 50s to the later 70s, mainly on such second-tier titles as Tomahawk, Challengers of the Unknown, Doom Patrol, the 50s sf titles, and war books.
However, Brown did covers and stories for Superboy and Detective for five years (1968-73) before migrating to Marvel, where he was the top artist on Daredevil for three years, Avengers for a year and a batch of other titles from Dracula Lives to Ghost Rider during his five-year stint there.
I hope you are pleasantly surprised by searching for covers that will run the gamut in style, genre, and era, and I'm hoping that if you don’t know Brown’s work, you’ll stumble on examples of a not-so-well-known talent who I think, more than holds his own as a draftsman and master of emotions.
Good luck, one and all!
The 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 22 December 2011.
- Please include the title and the issue number of the comic in case some posters cannot see your image.
(For example: Doom Patrol 116)
- Covers must be posted before voting begins.
- Voting takes place on Tuesday, 22 December 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 in bold.
- And please put the name of your cover in bold as well.
- 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.