CBR Cover Contest Jan. 21 - 27

[Schornforce]

Hey all!


The rules are:

1. Must be a cover from an actual published comic

2. Only one entry per person.

3. Have fun!


I dunno if this has been done before, but this week's topic is

Lame cover gimmicks

Interpret as you will (i.e. cheap flashy stuff to get people to buy the comic, or lame gimmicks that a character uses featured on the cover, whatever).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/Schornforce/225-1.jpg

Oh boy. A holo disc.

Thanks, Marvel.

[StoneGold]

In with the bullet hole.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/4577_4_05.jpg

Every 50th issue has an even rarer cover enhancement - powder burns! And I shit you not, that was actually considered a selling point to increase the rarity.

[DubipR]

I'm in with the "Nude Variant Cover", like this gem from Budd Root's Cavewoman
Not only a nude cover but a Nude back cover too!
This is for Cavewoman: Jungle Tales #2

http://www.amryl.com/cavewoman/jungletales/full/JT2alt-Nude.jpg

[Puma]

two in one!

http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/13/ironman_144.jpg

[Mac Danny]

Celebrity Casting

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/03188797534.583.OBAMA.GIF

[Paradox]

Emo or "self-mutilating" cover. :tongue:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3865/400/3865_4_0050.jpg

[jessecuster3]

Restarting a series as a #1: check
Variant cover: check
Platinum(shiny) cover: check


http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/images/spiderman/001_alt2.jpg

[StoneGold]

Emo or "self-mutilating" cover. :tongue:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3865/400/3865_4_0050.jpg
I believe the phrase was die-cut.

[Paradox]

StoneGold corrects:

I believe the phrase was die-cut.

What the hell do you know about youth-culture, old man??? :mad:

[Ray R.]

Shiny, happy people.

Lucite. The tuxedo t-shirt of '90s comic books.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/rrivard/Surfer50.jpg

[Ryan Day]

Glow-in-the-dark, but with ACTUAL ARTISTIC MERIT!

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/71530658190.1.GIF

[Jeremi]

Monkey variant covers!

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/14050216633.6.MONKEY.GIF

[StoneGold]

Shiny, happy people.

Lucite. The tuxedo t-shirt of '90s comic books.


I only want to contest the lameness of this one, because the enhancement actually makes sense with the character. But only with Silver Surfer. Not even with Silver Sable.

[thehod]

Ok, this one had an actual purple plastic diamond attached.

How useless was that?

http://www.backissuecomics.co.uk/store/images/DC/DC247-I-1.jpg

[worstblogever]

"Piece of a puzzle" Covers. You know, when they assure you're a series completist, by making all the covers build into one full poster.

http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/240/1326_20080213111626_large.jpg

Which is the upper left piece of the full fourteen issue series. Alex Ross, to boot.

http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/earthx14covmerg.jpg

[DonC]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/Don3172/7813robin.jpg

[Augusto]

Adventures of Superman #505. An holographic foil cover edition.

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/01699661920.505.GIF

I liked most #505 regular edition. The coolest Tom Grummett cover.

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/thumbnails/01699661920.505.NEWS.GIF

[Chris N]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/Don3172/7813robin.jpg

No fair. That includes everything anybody could think of.

Multiple covers (collect them all). Polybagged (so it will be valuable later). A moving cover. A reversible cover. A poster (it's like two collector's items in one!)

Plus it's a collector's edition!

[Chris N]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13937/400/13937_4_001.jpg

Here is your challenge. Find the Marvel series which began in the early '90s (say '90-'92) that didn't guest star Spider-Man within 10 issues (I think I can think of two).

Next challenge. Find the series that didn't guest star one of:
Spider-Man, Punisher, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Venom

within its first 10 issues. I'm almost sure that doesn't exist. I'd be curious how many new series of that era didn't feature at least two of those characters showing up within the first year.

[Michael P]

Anybody remember the cover to Force Works #1? It had some kind of fold-out thing, but no one I know of ever got it to work without pretty much ripping the book in half. But here's the cover, un-folded:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9783/50094001vu9.jpg

Boy, that book sucked.

[Chris N]

I couldn't figure out how that cover worked.

[MWGallaher]

Solar, Man of the Atom #10, Valiant Comics
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/4256/400/4256_4_10.jpg
This one gets a pretension bonus because Barry Windsor-Smith signed it (in, as I recall, raised lettering--squint and you might be able to see the reflected highlights on the raised lettering on the Valiant trademark and the "Solar, Man of the Atom" logo).

[MWGallaher]

I couldn't figure out how that cover worked.

C'mon, Chris, Marvel told you how right on the cover. You were supposed to force it.

[DeadLast Johnny]

I had a hard time finding one! :redface:



http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n156/omega_supreme1980/FF375.jpg

[Matt]

Anybody remember the cover to Force Works #1? It had some kind of fold-out thing, but no one I know of ever got it to work without pretty much ripping the book in half. But here's the cover, un-folded:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9783/50094001vu9.jpg

Boy, that book sucked.

I managed to unfold it once. But the real trick was folding it back again.
It really wasn't worth the bother.

And yes, the title sucked - especially the horrible, horrible art.

[StoneGold]

And IIRC, the folded out part was Wonder Man dying.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

3-D. They weren't gonna skimp on this occasion, nosiree:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/84059870548.1.GIF

[DeadLast Johnny]

That, or rather those, Superman's never existed.


I refuse to acknowledge him/them!:mad:

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

That, or rather those, Superman's never existed.


I refuse to acknowledge him/them!:mad:

Are you a DC employee?

[DeadLast Johnny]

Are you a DC employee?

Ha ha! No......


I'm Didio

[Paradox]

DeadLast Johnny knows the value of Egyptian rivers:

That, or rather those, Superman's never existed.


I refuse to acknowledge him/them!:mad:

Ha! I know how you feel. I'm that way with Iron Boy. :wink:

[Matt]

Careful, or someone will run with the idea of teenaged twin supermans with electric powers running about.

[DonC]

No fair. That includes everything anybody could think of.

Multiple covers (collect them all). Polybagged (so it will be valuable later). A moving cover. A reversible cover. A poster (it's like two collector's items in one!)

Plus it's a collector's edition!


Why do you think I picked it? It's like five entries in one.


Plus the Star Wars 3-D covers weren't in 3-D.

[Mac Danny]

Anybody remember the cover to Force Works #1? It had some kind of fold-out thing, but no one I know of ever got it to work without pretty much ripping the book in half. But here's the cover, un-folded:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9783/50094001vu9.jpg

Boy, that book sucked.

But it had EVERYTHING!

US Agent and his flag robe..

A dried up corpse with an Axe appropriately named Century.

Iron Man

A Spider woman, but not the one people liked.

It was West Coast Avengers all grown up! The only thing it was missing was Senor Lightning from West Coast Avengers.

Also, This was an Abnett / Lanning book. Does Century look a little like Resurrection Man?

[Paradox]

Mac Danny brings back memories:

A dried up corpse with an Axe appropriately named Century.

Sigh. I miss the old running gag I had on Alvaro's Avengers board. Since he seemed to just disappear, we used to get people regularly asking "Whatever happened to Century?" At one point, Kurt Busiek answered that "He was eaten by rats." Which later morphed into the fictitious comic one-shot special "Century: Eaten By Rats". :biggrin:

Although to this day I don't remember the real answer.

[Slam_Bradley]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f67/h20lawyer/bat3d.jpg

[Mac Danny]

Sigh. I miss the old running gag I had on Alvaro's Avengers board. Since he seemed to just disappear, we used to get people regularly asking "Whatever happened to Century?" At one point, Kurt Busiek answered that "He was eaten by rats." Which later morphed into the fictitious comic one-shot special "Century: Eaten By Rats". :biggrin:

Although to this day I don't remember the real answer.

He was bathed in Moisturizer and because The Sentry.

[benday-dot]

Some gimmicks are actually pretty cool. Like this Simon and Kirby floppy disguised as a juicy thick hardback.

http://www.gcdcovers.com/graphics/covers/470/400/470_4_2.jpg

[a. non]

homage cover taken too far

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/999/lastgeneration1woodwardlo8.jpg

[GloryQuest]

A two-for-one, the chromium cover and a "#0" issue...

http://gloryquest.googlepages.com/X-OManowar0.jpg

[Mac Danny]

homage cover taken too far

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/999/lastgeneration1woodwardlo8.jpg

WOW.. a high school kid could have done that cover in photoshop..

Actually It probably was a fan cover that someone decided they should publish. you know those trekkies and photoshop.

[StoneGold]

homage cover taken too far

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/999/lastgeneration1woodwardlo8.jpg

But Sulu's still out there!!!!


Oh my!!

[Puma]

But Sulu's still out there!!!!


Oh my!!

He's like those Japanese soldiers in WWII that stayed on the islands still fighting the war twenty years later.

[Mac Danny]

He's like those Japanese soldiers in WWII that stayed on the islands still fighting the war twenty years later.


I am just glad someone killed Dr. Pulaski..

Checkov was killed looking for "New-Klee-AR Wessels"

[Puma]

I am just glad someone killed Dr. Pulaski..

Checkov was killed looking for "New-Klee-AR Wessels"

I liked Dr Pulaski; thought she and Jean-Luc had chemistry.

[Paradox]

Puma got me:

He's like those Japanese soldiers in WWII that stayed on the islands still fighting the war twenty years later.

Geez, thanks for the Mountain Dew nasal flush. :biggrin:

[Mac Danny]

I liked Dr Pulaski; thought she and Jean-Luc had chemistry.


I liked her better when she fell down the elevator shaft on LA Law.

[Michael P]

I am just glad someone killed Dr. Pulaski..

Checkov was killed looking for "New-Klee-AR Wessels"

Janeway got taken alive somehow, so there's justice for you.

[DubipR]

He's like those Japanese soldiers in WWII that stayed on the islands still fighting the war twenty years later.

Just like Gilligan's Island....

http://www.gilligansisle.com/images/vito1.jpg

[Chris N]

Some gimmicks are actually pretty cool. Like this Simon and Kirby floppy disguised as a juicy thick hardback.

pfft

The theme was "lame" cover gimmicks. That cover's awesome.

Boy did you blow it.

[benday-dot]

pfft

The theme was "lame" cover gimmicks. That cover's awesome.

Boy did you blow it.

Oh, Chris. Wow did I ever. Can I not read?! My head hangs in shame.

I was in comic book limbo-land in the 90's when it seems the "lame gimmick covers" reigned supreme. And it pains me to search that lost decade for further lameness than what is already revealed here.

So.... if anyone wants to sneak in a vote for cool cover gimmicks I accept your subversive support. :wink:

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

I'm going with Michael P this week.

I mean, that's just really fucking sad.

[Puma]

Ray R






.

[DubipR]

Ray R gets my vote this week.
I like that Silver Surfer cover

[jessecuster3]

The Beast of Yucca Flats

[Mac Danny]

Jessecuster3 This week. that cover started a rash of #1 covers designed to get speculators to buy up 2 of every issue.

Did we not have any Valiant Vision this week?

[Jeremi]

Ray R. gets my vote this week.

[DonC]

Lots of memories this week. Sadly, they're mostly bad. I'm voting for thehod. When that cover came out I realized how sick I was of gimmicks.

[Augusto]

DonC. That was too much for just one issue.

[Ray R.]

Beast of Yucca Flats.

That cover is absolutely hideous. An absolute eye-sore. I want it.

[Schornforce]

I vote Supermancho. Even thought the gimmick was lame, I still liked the firework holo effect thingy.

...

Maybe I just like shiny things.

Oooooo.... shiny....

[Paradox]

DonC for sheer inclusiveness.

Honorable Mention to Michael P for that %#$@^ tear-away Force Works cover. :mad:

[Slam_Bradley]

DonC nailed it in one.

[morna]

For lame gimmick covers Ray R takes it for pure hideous-ity. Honourable mention to GloryQuest.

For gimmick covers that are actually kool Ryan Day and Benday Dot get the nod.

[thehod]

DonC, for getting all the lame gimmicks in one single, and if I remember correctly, pretty poor issue.

[4thHorseman]

Jeremi

I never understood the Ape craze in comics.

[MWGallaher]

DonC easily. I thought about using that one, but only for the "animated" cover gimmick. I'd forgotten the bagged ultra-collectible super-gimmick version.

[Chris N]

Yeah, DonC got it.

There was a time when Robin II was the benchmark for gimmicky covers. If I recall right, issue 1 had 5 versions, issue 2 had 4 versions, etc...

There were different hologram covers, or you could get a bagged version with all the covers. I think that version may have come with a trading card. There was nothing like it.

Until Robin III came along and showed the world what gimmicky really meant.

[Chris N]

If I may walk down memory lane a bit, when I was in 4th and 5th grade in 1990-1991, comics were big in my school. But everybody was concerned with collectibility. You did not open polybagged comics. You bought every cover. If a new issue 1 came out, you grabbed it (look how much Spider-Man #1 had been worth, especially the platinum cover! X-Men #1 was bound to be even HUGER!)

I had a reputation as not being a serious comic book guy back then because I didn't take enough care of my comics.

My defining moment as a fan and what separated me from all my classmates (only a couple of whom still read comics today) came when I purchased a complete set of the Rise of the Midnight Sons crossover., Every issue was polybagged. They were my first polybagged comic. Peer pressure at the time was not to open them because they then become worthless, but darnit, I wanted to read those comics.

So I did. I read them and liked them (though Darkhold was too weird for me at that tender age).




Later, I opened up my polybagged copies of the X-Cutioner's Song story.

Those I should have left bagged.

(The other thing that separated me from my classmates is that they were heavily into Image. I bought Youngblood #1 and that convinced me to not read anymore Image until many years later when I was in college looking for good crime comics and I came across Goldfish)

[GloryQuest]

Another vote for DonC.

[benday-dot]

Yeah, Don C for that mockery of a mag he threw at us.

[Paradox]

Chris Nowlin takes me back, too:

If I may walk down memory lane a bit, when I was in 4th and 5th grade in 1990-1991, comics were big in my school. But everybody was concerned with collectibility. You did not open polybagged comics. You bought every cover.

And did old guys at the comic shop laugh at and mock you? 'Cause I know I sure did. :biggrin:

[worstblogever]

My vote's for thehod, for remembering one of the worst cover gimmicks ever.

[Puma]

and the votes are in

with one each: Michael P, jessecuster3, Supermancho, Jeremi

with two: The Beast of Yucca Flats, thehod

with four: Ray R

and with eight. our winner: Don C



I'm going out on a limb and say our next theme will have to do with Star Wars