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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 8, 2022 9:23:14 GMT -5
I think DC had a leg up on cover art partly because of what MDG mentioned, and partly because they occasionally utilized things like monotone and grey-tone covers. In this respect, Jack Adler was DC's secret weapon in the early Silver age-- he did the bulk of grey-tone wash finishing on covers during this period.
These covers have a more upscale commercial art feel because they used commercial magazine art methods instead of traditional comic pencil/ink/coloring layouts. Unfortunately, this method was largely discontinued during the latter part of the 1960's and was pretty much completely gone by the 1970's, but man, the results are quite dramatic and eye-catching.
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