80's Stuff Art Day!

[Nexus]

If you collected comics in the 80's, you probably remember this cover:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=266830&GSub=41175

 

The limited distribution "test cover" for JUSTICE LEAGUE #3 by Kevin Maguire. The "Superman Comics" logo is pretty spiffy.

 

A couple more pages from the same era:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=265322&GSub=40890

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=265321&GSub=26314

 

Not sure when the GROO piece was done, but that's one creation I'll always associate with the 80's. Enjoy!

[jjeanius]

I always liked that Justice League cover. My understanding, though, is that they were test marketing the new logo? At least, I believe that was the point behind those two issues. Of course, this makes absolutely no sense when you put variant covers on the books. Those books were hot because they were limited distribution variant covers...not because anyone really cared about the new logo.

 

If that is indeed the story behind those two variants, it makes me wonder who the think tank was that came up with that idea.

[Nexus]

I think the test was to see if the Superman logo would help boost sales. I agree that having a different cover sort of muddies the equation. The cover was hot at the time for the variant cover art as well as the new logo, IIRC.

 

A quick Google search turns up a couple of articles:

 

http://www.progressiveruin.com/2005_09_25_archive.html (scroll down 2/3)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics#_note-2 (in the logo history section)

[jjeanius]

Exactly. Nothing like changing two variables to see how one is affected. Duh.

[CW]

You know where to send that Fleming page when you're done with it!