What is your Fav/BEST SA Cover of all time? Here's Mine! 4 4

[marvelmaniac]

8 hours ago, pemart1966 said:

How about the prequel?  Oh the SUSPENSE  !!!!!   You can feel the tension!  Gotta buy it to see what happens in the next 2 seconds!!!!

 

I own that book now but F.F. 12 was published before I was interested in/or even looking at comics and IMO the cover of F.F.12 does not have the "WOW" effect of #25 that caught my eye as a youth.

Edited June 16, 2017 by marvelmaniac

[pemart1966]

55 minutes ago, marvelmaniac said:

I own that book now but F.F. 12 was published before I was interested in/or even looking at comics and IMO the cover of F.F.12 does not have the "WOW" effect of #25 that caught my eye as a youth.

The books that we saw in our youth always seem to have more lasting impact than ones that we encounter later in life.  I saw neither one as a kid so I'm biased towards the 12...

[Dogsupreme]

Anything by STERANKO!

 

[Jordysnordy]

[Hepcat]

3 hours ago, pemart1966 said:

The books that we saw in our youth always seem to have more lasting impact than ones that we encounter later in life.  

 

Very, very true! That's what makes the exercise of picking the best covers from the Silver Age even more difficult.

 

[pemart1966]

4 hours ago, Jordysnordy said:

I remember this book well as a boy.  The local corner store (Hi Mr. Sherman ) had a copy and it stayed high above the cash for several years.  At 3 times+ the cost of a regular comic book, it's easy to see why.  I'm sure that had it been down with the magazines near the comics it would have still been there after the same amount of time but with a substantially more wear and tear from all of the kids leafing through it 

[Jordysnordy]

Just now, pemart1966 said:

I remember this book well as a boy.  The local corner store (Hi Mr. Sherman ) had a copy and it stayed high above the cash for several years.  At 3 times+ the cost of a regular comic book, it's easy to see why.  I'm sure that had it been down with the magazines near the comics it would have still been there after the same amount of time but with a substantially more wear and tear from all of the kids leafing through it 

The cover alone makes it worth 3X the cost of a regular comic book. The story is great also. That's a cool story about you seeing it at your LCS.

[pemart1966]

1 minute ago, Jordysnordy said:

The cover alone makes it worth 3X the cost of a regular comic book. The story is great also. That's a cool story about you seeing it at your LCS.

I saw a lot of stuff at that corner store - all in 10.0 w/white pages  

I got my money to buy comics by picking up 2 cent pop bottles.  He would not take single bottles.  You had to have 6 bottles (12 cents) in order to get $.  It would have taken me a loooong time to gather up enough bottles to afford that book so as such, I couldn't justify the expenditure for the unknown return.  I must admit though that every time I went to the cash, I took a look at that book wondering what it was like inside.  It was only as an adult that I found out - now I'll have to sit down and read it as opposed to just leafing through it.  

[Jordysnordy]

1 minute ago, pemart1966 said:

I saw a lot of stuff at that corner store - all in 10.0 w/white pages  

I got my money to buy comics by picking up 2 cent pop bottles.  He would not take single bottles.  You had to have 6 bottles (12 cents) in order to get $.  It would have taken me a loooong time to gather up enough bottles to afford that book so as such, I couldn't justify the expenditure for the unknown return.  I must admit though that every time I went to the cash, I took a look at that book wondering what it was like inside.  It was only as an adult that I found out - now I'll have to sit down and read it as opposed to just leafing through it.  

The 49 year wait will be worth it. To boot, the 11/68 date is my birthday month and year.

[pemart1966]

53 minutes ago, Jordysnordy said:

The 49 year wait will be worth it. To boot, the 11/68 date is my birthday month and year.

Unfortunately, you missed the Silver Age and for that you have my sympathy, but since clearly you have discovered what a great era it was you have my respect for your good taste 

[adamstrange]

On 6/14/2017 at 11:42 AM, Jeffro. said:

I'm partial to greytones 

 

Nothing wrong with that!

[jimjum12]

When Neal Adams came to the House Of Ideas............late 60's awesomeness...... GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[bronze johnny]

This is my current favorite SA cover- nothing like it imho:

[adamstrange]

Stunning work by Grandenetti!

[bronze johnny]

14 hours ago, adamstrange said:

Stunning work by Grandenetti!

One of Jerry's Cafe Grandes!

 

[silverweb]

I love seeing the love!  Here are a few favs of mine that have not shown up yet. You can tell I'm partial to Jack King Kirby

 

 

[Hepcat]

On 6/14/2017 at 5:47 PM, catman76 said:

I can't pick one, but thought of these just off the top of my head....

 

 

What a cover concept! So cool!

 

[Hepcat]

On 6/14/2017 at 2:06 AM, adamstrange said:

Here's some ancient Board history I wrote in response to a poll we did to pick the #1 cover. 

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e167/adamxstrange/AdamTop10.jpg&key=c3328e00bba1b5d15a7c2aefd00841ee4fa9cfe5e055d6e5df1e5361136e7a35

 

All good to great covers, with the exception of Mystery in Space 55 which I thoroughly dislike. Alanna is a beautiful girl, yet she looks ugly on that cover. Moreover why is Adam Strange drawn with such a big nose?

Overall I'd say that grey tone covers worked great for Sea Devils because of the underwater setting and for war covers because they capture the dreariness, but I just don't thing grey tone covers work very well for superheroes since their bright garb shouldn't be washed out. And I do hate the covers to Wonder Woman 108 and Green Lantern 8 as well. In fact, let's contrast the cover of Green Lantern 8 to that of a later issue with a similar cover concept:

 

 

I hate the first cover but love the second.

 

[bronze johnny]

Another favorite of mine and she's quite popular now:

[Ken Aldred]