"I'm up on the tightrope
one side's hate and one is hope
but the tophat on my head is all you see"
For this week we pay homage to those daring aerial acrobats who perform death-defying feats, suspended by nothing but a rope and a prayer.
So forget the safety net, take a leap of faith and post a cover featuring a tightrope, high wire, or trapeze.
Since we've had the "circus" topic before, entries are NOT limited to circus settings (though they are allowable), but can be any virtually any setting indoors or outdoors, as long as the tightrope or trapeze is clearly visible. Characters may be walking or cycling on the wire, falling, or even hanging from it, or swinging to or from a trapeze.
the standard ground 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 August 2012.
- 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, August 23, 2022, beginning at 12:01am PST and ending at 11:59 am 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.
To kick things off, here's mine:
My Greatest Adventure #3, May-June 1955-- National Comics Publications (DC)
cover art by John Prentice
And tartanphantom's choice of themed cover-searching background music--