Misfit Toys Covers

[Lone Ranger]

As many of you know, I've been keeping my eye out for new and different subgenres of covers and doing little bits on my blog about them. For a while, I was posting a thread over here on the same topic, but after a while I started feeling as though I was just pimping my own blog so I've stayed away from it.

I had a PM from ROK suggesting that people would enjoy the latest, so since idea came from a neutral party - I feel a little less pimpish.

If you check out my latest blog entry - you'll find a series of covers feauring Misfit Toys. There are others out there. Can you find them?

Seduction of the Indifferent (http://seductionoftheindifferent.blogspot.com/)

NOTE: Ventriloquist Dummies are a whole different kettle of fish - I'll be covering those separately in the future.

[Red Oak Kid]

Pimp covers? Hmmmm that's a tough one. I can't think of many pimp covers.

But here is a Charlton teddy bear cover.

Ghost Manor 23 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=168583&zoom=4)

[Lone Ranger]

That's the issue that first featured the story 'Terrible Teddy'. I'm pretty sure that the cover I featured was lifted from the interior artwork and used for the reprint cover that I featured.

I'm going to try to dig through my Charlton boxes (yes, plural) and check tonight.

[Red Oak Kid]

I'm going to try to dig through my Charlton boxes (yes, plural) and check tonight.

Don't get sidetracked looking at Ditko covers.

Here is a classic: House of Mystery 191

House of Mystery 191 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24079&zoom=4)

[benday-dot]

I don't know if a "Dummy Killer" is simply misfit or cut from thoroughly rotten wood to begin with. But I think we agree this Ziff-Davis cover is a classic.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/11713/400/11713_4_002.jpg

[InfoBroker]

This Mike Kaluta cover (http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=25465&zoom=4) for Detective Comics is the first terrible toy cover that popped into my morbidly misfit mind.

SImilar in nature to these psychotic toys:
When I was kid, one of the parks in Davenport had a place called Mother Goose Land, full of rides and stuff related to nursery rhymes. To get into it you had to walk through a small tunnel that was in the shape of a giant Mother Goose. She was a big, white statue nestled amidst a grove of evergreen trees. I could see her peering all the way from the street and she would seem to move as mom drove along what became a sinister winding road for me. For whatever reason, that MGoose entrance gave me the heebee-geebees. Even her expression seemed to have a subtle evil lurking under her scarf and supposed innocent smile.. It was a very eerie kind of fright that would come over me. Nightmare like in nature.

-jb the "goosebumps forming and hairs standing on end" ib -

[Red Oak Kid]

That doll or puppet on the Detective 427 cover is the same one from the House of Mystery cover. I think he was scheduled to get his own book edited by Joe Simon but was cancelled by the DC Implosion. He had a small part in the Watchmen series, but it was cut out for space considerations. I think Frank Miller also had him under contract to do some movies at one time.

Here is one I've never seen before, Twilight Zone 39.

Twilight Zone 39 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24487&zoom=4)

[Lone Ranger]

B-D - that cover is one of my top 5 faves of all-time, and I'll be putting together a series of Ventriloquist Dummy covers at a future date for sure.

ROK - I just noticed that TZ cover a few minutes ago - good pick.

With a villain like the Toyman, you know that Supes is going to run into this problem from time to time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/Superman44.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/DCCP67.jpg

[Jamie]

Forgive me if this is in the original blog post -- blogs are blocked here at work:
http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/221/111256_20071113003518_large.jpg (http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/221/111256_20071113003518_large.jpg)

I picked this one up from Lone Star purely because of the cover. Haven't had the chance to read it yet.

[InfoBroker]

That doll or puppet...I think he was scheduled to get his own book edited by Joe Simon but was cancelled by the DC Implosion.

Despite the lack of an ongoing series, he fared a bit better than his cousins, mom and dad who had minor rolls (http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=11520&zoom=4) at ACG Comics.

-jb "only found this cuz' I'm trying to solve the current Classic Comics Cover" ib -

[Lone Ranger]

Jamie - yup, that was on the blog. That cover inspired the whole topic.

For the record, here are the other 3. I didn't realize that some offices block blogs.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/MTIO74.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/ghostmanor50.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/Creepy63.jpg

[foxley]

With a title like Demonic Toys what else do you expect?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/26907/400/26907_4_002.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/26907/400/26907_4_003.jpg

[MichikoS]

First up, a Silver Age Classic. Strange Tales #133. These are actually life-sized manikins, not toys, but hey, Front Facer, "life-sized manikins" doesn't alliterate with "terrible."

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn40/michiko_s/st_133.jpg

Green Lantern fights the Menace of the Giant Puppet. Good to know our cosmos is safe from limp-wristed puppet villainy thanks to GL.

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn40/michiko_s/gl_1.jpg

And finally, another DC horror gem. Nothing sadder (or scarier) than a homunculus!

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn40/michiko_s/hos_86.jpg

Michi

[Red Oak Kid]

Unexpected 143.

Unexpected 143 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=25808&zoom=4)

[Jamie]

Jamie - yup, that was on the blog. That cover inspired the whole topic.

How embarrassing for me! :redface:

My office, and I'd imagine quite a few others, block most but not all sites that have the word "blog" in their URL, or anything similar. For some reason, I can access the old version of Chris's Invincible Superblog, and the defunct Dave's Longbox, but that's about it from the blogosphere.

[foxley]

The Toyman strikes!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/97/400/97_4_00000000561.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/97/400/97_4_00000000657.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3386/400/3386_4_0000000013.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/7251/400/7251_4_4.jpg

[Lone Ranger]

How embarrassing for me! :redface:

My office, and I'd imagine quite a few others, block most but not all sites that have the word "blog" in their URL, or anything similar. For some reason, I can access the old version of Chris's Invincible Superblog, and the defunct Dave's Longbox, but that's about it from the blogosphere.

Hey, no worries - at least you picked a dandy!

That's too bad about your work. I once worked at place that wouldn't let me on hotmail (no internet based email allowed) or CBS Sportsline (no gambling - I needed it for a baseball pool), but you could totally go to adult sites. Go figure!

Here are a couple of more good ones:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/PP53.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/bd24.jpg

[Rob Allen]

That's too bad about your work. I once worked at place that wouldn't let me on hotmail (no internet based email allowed) or CBS Sportsline (no gambling - I needed it for a baseball pool), but you could totally go to adult sites. Go figure!


My employer doesn't block blogs or email or sports, but they do block youtube and photobucket, so I can't see any of the images hosted at photobucket in this or any other thread.

[Red Oak Kid]

Unexpected, the title that keeps on giving. Unexpected 168.

Unexpected 168 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=28978&zoom=4)