Guess the Classic Cover - All New #1 Collector's Edition

[J'onn J'onzz]

Random Guess. Superman #79. That was utterly random, though so... it'd be a miracle if that was right.

[Lone Ranger]

Random Guess. Superman #79. That was utterly random, though so... it'd be a miracle if that was right.

IT'S A MIRACLE !!!!*







*that's what I would have declared, had your answer been correct. Sadly, it is not. Keep trying, though. The answer is out there.

[Red Oak Kid]

Jonah Hex 85

[Lone Ranger]

Jonah Hex 85

Well done - 200 points for ROK.

I like this striking cover - I do hope we someday see the entire Jonah Hex story told via Showcase Presents.

Here it is in full - new one up soon

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It was published in the 80s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This title had once went on hiatus for more than 5 years

NOTE - I had a typo in the initial clue. I hit '7' instead of '8'. This is from the 80s, not 70s. Sorry

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Although there were fewer than 20 issues of this title published, the first issue had a 25 cent cover price, and the final issue had a 75 cent cover price.

[MichikoS]

Beyond the Grave #11

Michi

[MichikoS]

BTW, any ideas on who drew this cover? It's gorgeous, and the "ugh" title on the front of the book is funny. It is totally unlike the other covers in the series, which feature Ditko redos and such.

Michi

[MichikoS]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Although there were fewer than 20 issues of this title published, the first issue had a 25 cent cover price, and the final issue had a 75 cent cover price.
LR, glad you were able to get to this clue. It must be one of the most unusual situations in comics history.

Michi

[Mike Kuypers]

LR, glad you were able to get to this clue. It must be one of the most unusual situations in comics history.

Michi

It's somewhat similar to the situation with DC and Plastic Man. Their first series started in 1966 and lasted ten issues. It was revived eight years later, picking up with #11, and lasted another ten issues. Twenty issues, with the first priced at 12¢ and the last 35¢.

[MDG]

BTW, any ideas on who drew this cover? It's gorgeous, and the "ugh" title on the front of the book is funny. It is totally unlike the other covers in the series, which feature Ditko redos and such.

Illustrator Mitch O'Connell did a few Charlton mystery covers in the 80s--it could be him.

But the signature on the GCD cover scan (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=70418&zoom=4) looks like it says something else. (GCD doesn't list the cover artist, but the inside has Steve Ditko and the great team of Cuti & Staton--I should try to find some of these.)

MDG

[Lone Ranger]

Beyond the Grave #11

Michi

Nice job Michi - 200 points for you.

Here is the full cover. New one up soon.

I have no idea who drew it, but I really like it, too!

I don't think that's a signature on the bottom. I'm looking at my big scan, but I may have cut off the bottom a bit. I'll have to find my actual copy.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - This series had a name change

[J'onn J'onzz]

Only two more 'til 350. I'm assuming we'll have a few days off then, as with 250. To imagine I've been trying to do this over 100 issues and haven't gotten one yet.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It was published in the 80s

[Red Oak Kid]

Doesn't the Martian Manhunter have a blue cape?

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - The cover artist has contributed to Twilight Zone, Detective Comics and Creepy.

[spoon_jenkins]

Thor #343.

[Lone Ranger]

Thor #343.

Nice job - 200 points for Spoon.

Walt Simonson has some very interesting credits to his name. I've never seen the Twilight Zone stories - does anyone have copies of those issues?

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover.

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This series has both a name change and a genre change

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - It is a DC book

[MichikoS]

More Fun #87

Michi

[Red Oak Kid]

I was afraid of that.

I looked at the More Fun covers in my Gerber book at least 3 different times and missed it every time.

[Lone Ranger]

More Fun #87

Michi

Great job - 200 points for Michi.

I love, love, love this Meskin cover. This is one of my favourite books.

My scanner's adding that white line - kind of ruins the beauty of the images. Anyone ever see that with their scanners? Mine's probably exhausted.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover.

By my estimates, this is 1,000th cover since Day One - back in September, 2003. Can you believe it?

Actually, I'm not 100% sure that it was in September - anyone remember when it was? I remember the first cover and who guess it right (after about 5 seconds!).

Who would have ever thought that we'd get to 1,000 covers?

HINT - The cover artist was born outside of the U.S.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This title was cancelled in the 70s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - The cover artist has stated that this was his favourite cover of his entire career.

[Roquefort Raider]

Mighty Marvel Western #44.

The third hint did it.


By the way, thanks for setting up this game and sticking with it for so long, Scott! Here's to 1000 more covers!

Cheers,

- Ben

[InfoBroker]

Great job - 200 points for Michi.

I love, love, love this Meskin cover. This is one of my favourite books.

My scanner's adding that white line - kind of ruins the beauty of the images. Anyone ever see that with their scanners? Mine's probably exhausted.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

Not to slight Mort Meskin who is one of my favorite artists and I wish he had stay in comics post 1965-66, but a technical focus on the scanner...

Sometimes, changing the bulb will fix this. Sometimes a carefull cleaning of the scan element (with a very soft brush).

Sometimes you just throw in the towel and admit the modern age devices come complete with discardable life times engineered into them.

-jb the streaking ib-

[Lone Ranger]

Mighty Marvel Western #44.

The third hint did it.


By the way, thanks for setting up this game and sticking with it for so long, Scott! Here's to 1000 more covers!

Cheers,

- Ben

Well done Ben.

This has always been one of my favourite Kane covers, and probably the best Western cover ever (painted covers aside), so I wasn't totally surprised when I read that it was Kane's favourite cover.

200 points for you.

You are very welcome for keeping the game going - it has been my pleasure. Although, I can't imagine lasting another 1,000 covers!

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Sometimes, changing the bulb will fix this. Sometimes a carefull cleaning of the scan element (with a very soft brush).


Thanks JB, I'll try the bulb.

Is the scan element the clear glass?

I've seen these lines on various ebay auctions - I think I've seen them referred to as Scanner Ghosts.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Ogden Whitney contributed to this series

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 4th clue

HINT - This company that published this book shares a name with an Ivy League university.

[MichikoS]

Big Shot Comics #19

Michi

[Lone Ranger]

Big Shot Comics #19

Michi

That's it! 100 points for Michi for solvingthis book published by Columbia.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is a DC book

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It was published in the 90s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

Hint - Archie Goodwin wrote this comic

[Red Oak Kid]

OOPS!

This is the ultra rare Free Guess the Classic Cover Clue/Answer.

[Graham Vingoe]

Could it be the Armageddon 2001 Special number 1 by any chance???

:o

[Roquefort Raider]

Could it be the Armageddon 2001 Special number 1 by any chance???

:o

Nah... The hint couldn't be that obvious... It must be a trick. ;)

[Mike Kuypers]

Answer: 1002.
Question: How many Classic Comic Covers before the Lone Ranger cracks up completely? :D

[Lone Ranger]

OOPS!



Oops is right.

I threw this one up quickly this morning before heading out the door for all day meetings.

Yikes!

Sorry folks - I shouldn't post before a cup of coffee.

Let's move one and forget this whole sorry episode.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - There has been more than one series with this title

[Lone Ranger]

Nah... The hint couldn't be that obvious... It must be a trick. ;)

I wish I had though of that one, Ben.

Brilliant!

[Graham Vingoe]

Random guess - Phantom Stranger issue 1 1969

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It is a Marvel Book

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko contributed to this title

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 4th clue

HINT - It was published in the 80s

[MichikoS]

What If? V1 #26

Michi

[MichikoS]

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/78877833126.3.GIF


Cover to Spoof #3 also by Marie Severin

Michi

[METAROG]

You have no idea how many of those bronze age horror covers I looked through after the 3rd clue!!!!!

[Lone Ranger]

What If? V1 #26

Michi

Well done Michi - 100 points for you.

This was one of my absolute favourite comics as a kid. In one book, you've got Captain America, Man-Thing and the Eternals. Not bad.

Anyone else think this cover looks more like John Severin than Marie Severin, who is credited on the GCD?

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is teh first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It was published in the 70s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It was published by DC

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Keith Giffen contributed pencils to this title

[MWGallaher]

So easy giffen the third clue: All-Star Comics 66!

[Lone Ranger]

So easy giffen the third clue: All-Star Comics 66!

Nice pun - 200 points for MWG.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 1st clue

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It was published in the 80s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Marshall Rogers and Gene Colan contributed to this title

[Cherokee Jack]

Eclipse, the Magazine # 4.

[Lone Ranger]

Eclipse, the Magazine # 4.

Nice job, Scott. 200 points for you.

I thought I throw something pretty different into the mix.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Cherokee Jack]

Nice job, Scott. 200 points for you.

I thought I throw something pretty different into the mix.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.


I assume the Rogers/Colan clue was meant to mislead us to DETECTIVE COMICS? Because the first thing I thought of was McGregors DETECTIVES, INC., but realizing the art looked nothing like Colan or Rogers, I remembered ECLIPSE THE MAGAZINE featured "Coyote" and "Ragamuffins."

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This title was cancelled in the 60s

[MichikoS]

Gang Busters #21

Michi

[Lone Ranger]

Gang Busters #21

Michi

Well done, Michi - 300 points for you.

How do you figure this one out?

I gave my copy to Ramona Fradon at the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon - as she confirm with me that it did indeed contain some of her earliest artwork. Since she didn't have a copy - I figured her family get a kick out of seeing it.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price.

[MichikoS]

Well done, Michi - 300 points for you.

How do you figure this one out?


The hat said "1950's urban noir" and the clue about its being canceled in the 1960s said DC...so it was just a hop skip and jump to Gang Busters. I tried Mr. District Attorney first, btw.

Michi

[Lone Ranger]

The hat said "1950's urban noir" and the clue about its being canceled in the 1960s said DC...so it was just a hop skip and jump to Gang Busters. I tried Mr. District Attorney first, btw.

Michi

Nice job - especially since my '60s' was a typo. It was cancelled in 1959 - I double checked just before posting the clue and yet still hit 6 instead of 5.

Sleep deprivation is taking its toll!

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This title made its debut in the 50s

[T GUy]

Marines in Battle No. 18, on the GCD here. (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=125368&zoom=4)

Should've saved the logo fragment till later, LR!

[Lone Ranger]

Marines in Battle No. 18, on the GCD here. (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=125368&zoom=4)

Should've saved the logo fragment till later, LR!

Sometimes I just wake up in a generous mood!

I figured it was enough to get people's brains in gear without giving too much away. I was wrong!

300 points for T Guy

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Bill Angus]

Don't know what it it yet, but that detail sure looks like an early prototype for the Ontario Lottery Corporation logo.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

I totally see the OLC connection Bill.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - The cover artist passed away in the 90s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 4th clue

HINT - Don't confuse this company that published this book with a publishing imprint of one of the Big Two, which appeared decades later. Their names are very similar.

[MichikoS]

Top Love Stories #3
http://cgi.ebay.com/Top-Love-Stories-3-G-LB-Cole-Cover_W0QQitemZ2189602894QQcategoryZ3973QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
Michi

[Lone Ranger]

Top Love Stories #3
http://cgi.ebay.com/Top-Love-Stories-3-G-LB-Cole-Cover_W0QQitemZ2189602894QQcategoryZ3973QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
Michi


Nice detective work, Michi.

I was sure this one was up on the GCD - but couldn't check yesterday as I was having a tough time getting onto the site. Now that I can get on, I see that it isn't.


Here is the full L B Cole cover in all of its splendor.

New one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - Although there was never a title change on the cover, this series (according to the GCD) had a slight change in the title in the indicia.

[Roquefort Raider]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - Although there was never a title change on the cover, this series (according to the GCD) had a slight change in the title in the indicia.

It looks like an Alex Maleev piece, and I guess that "Daredevil" might have been written "DareDevil" in the indicia once. But I don't know where this is from!!!

[MDG]

I was sure this one was up on the GCD - but couldn't check yesterday as I was having a tough time getting onto the site. Now that I can get on, I see that it isn't.
Same here--I thought it was Cole before the partial signature clinched it, but couldn't get on the GCD. (There are a couple of Cole cover galleries on the web, but few romance covers on them.)

MDG

[Lone Ranger]

Same here--I thought it was Cole before the partial signature clinched it, but couldn't get on the GCD. (There are a couple of Cole cover galleries on the web, but few romance covers on them.)

MDG

I may have just been a bit confused, as I was flipping through the Gerber books the other day, so I may have had a mental image of it being on the GCD, but it was actually from the Gerber picture.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This title made its debut in the 80s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - P. Craig Russell and Joe Staton contributed to this series

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 4th clue

HINT - The title character does not appear on this cover

[MichikoS]

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #129

[Lone Ranger]

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #129

Well done, Michi. 100 points for you.

It's quite a lovely cover - thought I'd throw in something a bit more recent.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It was published in the 80s

[Graham Vingoe]

Looks vaguely like Son of Ambush Bug issue 3 to me, so I must be COMPLETELY in the wrong direction

[Lone Ranger]

Looks vaguely like Son of Ambush Bug issue 3 to me, so I must be COMPLETELY in the wrong direction

Your instincts are spot on!!

I'm referring to your instincts about being in the wrong direction:D

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - There has been more than one series with this title

[METAROG]

Looks like Moon Knight #13.:D

[Lone Ranger]

Looks like Moon Knight #13.:D

Well done ROG - 300 points for you.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

That first Moon Knight series had some great, dramatic covers.

This wasn't one of them:p - but I own this book (and a page of original art from the interior).

Here's teh full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is a DC book

[MichikoS]

Adventure #318

Michi

[Lone Ranger]

Adventure #318

Michi

Umm....

What?

Doesn't this look like about a billion DC covers from the 50s through the 70s?

I knew people would get there - I just thought it would take some time.

I was actually happy with this cover - because I could show quite a beit without revealing any Legionnaires. Team books are tough.

Please explain - or I won't award the 400 points!:p

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[MichikoS]

Well, the second I saw it, I said to myself, "Curt Swan" because of the precision of the lines and shadow, the meticulous geometry of the fins, that particular shade of bright yellow...and my very next thought was, "Legion of Super-Heroes club house. 1960s."

...no, not the clubhouse, but probably a futuristic spaceship or frammistat drawn by Curt for one of the Silver Age Legion covers...lesse now, that would have been Adventure back in the 1960's...let me quickly go to the GCD and check out Legion covers from the early '60s and see what jumps out at me...oh, gosh, there it is.

That's the whole truth. Just an intuitive jump from the color/line pattern recognition to Curt Swan/futuristic to Legion to Adventure Comics in the 1960s.

No magic, just comic book intuition. :)

Michi

[Red Oak Kid]

Red Ryder Comics 55

[Red Oak Kid]

Red Ryder Comics 55

As soon as I saw the clue I thought Red Ryder by Fred Harmon.

The weird thing is, I've never read a Red Ryder comic. I have no idea why I recognized it as RR or why I thought of Fred Harmon. Whenever I'm looking thru the Gerber book I always see these covers and the brushwork jumps out at me. And Harmon had a large signature, so maybe it was just a case of seeing these covers over and over for a long period.

I almost gave up tho. I looked in the Gerber book first with no luck. Then I thought maybe they did not have the complete series in the book, so I went to GCD.

AHA! there are more covers. But still no luck. I had given up at this point. But then I wondered how many covers were missing from the GCD. I went back and looked and quite a few were missing. At this point I noticed this one cover that looked weird. It was very pale, as if the cover was printed on newsprint, rather than slick cover stock. I decided to enlarge it just to be sure. Bingo! That's the one.

I don't know if this cover really is printed on newsprint, or if it is just a poor scan.

Nice Birthday present for myself.

UPDATE: I just remembered that there was a Daisy BB rifle called a Red Ryder. I think there were some ads in Boy's Life magazine and other places that may have been drawn by Harmon and included his signature. That may be where I saw the art and signature.

[Lone Ranger]

Red Ryder Comics 55

Nice job - 400 points for the Birthday Boy.

I don't actually have this one (from an online source), but that does look like a bad scan on the GCD.

I don't own any Red Ryders either.


You are correct about the BB rifle. In fact, that's the gift Ralphie covets in the movie 'A Christmas Story'. A true holiday classic.


Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It was published in the 70s

[Roquefort Raider]

Creatures on the loose #16, featuring Gullivar Jones.

Is there any equal to these great Gil Kane fantasy covers?

[Lone Ranger]

Creatures on the loose #16, featuring Gullivar Jones.

Is there any equal to these great Gil Kane fantasy covers?

Well done Ben. 400 points for you.

I was probably tempting fate by using a Kane cover when he's been a topic of discussion lately.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Red Oak Kid]

Panic # 1.

[Lone Ranger]

Panic # 1.

No sir

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This comic has been reprinted

[Red Oak Kid]

Panic # 4.

[Chris Thomas]

1. I love watching this game. I am going to have to make a t-shirt that says 'I love lurking on the guess the classic cover thread'

2. red oak kid is that liberace?

[T GUy]

Doh!

I thought of Panic immediately on clue 1 - but read the lower letter as an 'M' rather than a 'V' and therefore gave up after checking out a sheet of thumbnails.

Well played, ROK.

[Lone Ranger]

Panic # 4.

Well played, ROK! 300 points for you

You were sooooooooooooo close with the first guess - I was tempted to give it to you.

This is, of course, from my collection of infinity covers.

Here it is in full, new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is a DC book

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It was published in the 60s

[Lone Ranger]

1. I love watching this game. I am going to have to make a t-shirt that says 'I love lurking on the guess the classic cover thread'

2. red oak kid is that liberace?

Hi Chris

Thanks for saying 'hi' - feel free to throw out a guess every now and then, no points are ever deducted!

[MichikoS]

Action Comics #302

Michi

[Lone Ranger]

Action Comics #302

Michi


Well done, Michi. 300 points for you.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price


NOTE - I am computer-free for the next 48 hours. Have a great weekend!

[J'onn J'onzz]

1. I love watching this game. I am going to have to make a t-shirt that says 'I love lurking on the guess the classic cover thread'

Don't lurk! Do what I do. Post a random insubstatial guess which will not be correct... like I do! Anyway, the only times I ever recognize a cover are when I have been away from CBR for two long and am reading back post (for some reason I don't subscribe to any threads. Probably because I don't know how!)

[Mike Kuypers]

Don't lurk! Do what I do. Post a random insubstatial guess which will not be correct... like I do! Anyway, the only times I ever recognize a cover are when I have been away from CBR for two long and am reading back post (for some reason I don't subscribe to any threads. Probably because I don't know how!)

To subscribe to this thread scroll to the top of this page, go to the pull-down menu called "Thread Tools" and click on Subscribe.

[Red Oak Kid]

1. I love watching this game. I am going to have to make a t-shirt that says 'I love lurking on the guess the classic cover thread'

2. red oak kid is that liberace?

To play the avatar game just click on my name at left and you will see a way to send me a private message with your guess. But it is not Liberace.

I'm miffed at missing the Action 302 cover. I instantly knew it was one of those exploding desk covers from the Superman family of books. I found 3 or four but none seemed to match the first clue perfectly. I don't know if I totally missed seeing the 302 cover or I saw it and it didn't match for some reason.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This title was cancelled in the 60s

[J'onn J'onzz]

To subscribe to this thread scroll to the top of this page, go to the pull-down menu called "Thread Tools" and click on Subscribe.

Unfortunately, I share a computer with other people, and they frequently delete my emails. Oh,woe is me.

On subject, I have no idea what the cover is but it looks like Golden Age DC to me.

[T GUy]

That'd be BattleNo. 61 from 1958 with a Maneely cover, on the GCD here. (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=14735&zoom=4)

I sense an attempt to fool Hulk after Marines in Battle cover recently... but Hulk smash! (after Hulk look at All-American Men of War and Warfront covers...).

[Lone Ranger]

That'd be BattleNo. 61 from 1958 with a Maneely cover, on the GCD here. (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=14735&zoom=4)

I sense an attempt to fool Hulk after Marines in Battle cover recently... but Hulk smash! (after Hulk look at All-American Men of War and Warfront covers...).

Well done - 300 points for T Guy.

There are so many Atlas war books, but I don't know if any others lasted until 1960.

Here is teh full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

[MichikoS]

Tragg #6

michi

[Lone Ranger]

Tragg #6

michi

Wow - 400 Big Points for Michi.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - There has been more than one title with this name

[Lone Ranger]

Here is teh 2nd clue

HINT - It is a DC book

[T GUy]

LR: There are so many Atlas war books, but I don't know if any others lasted until 1960.


Not as far as I'm able to tell. I was about to post that Navy Combat and maybe Navy Action survived Black October, but luckilly I looked it up on the GCD before committing this to 'print' and found it wasn't so.

Odd that a whole genre was represented by only one title, but I suppose Martin Goodman and Stan the Man felt it more necessary to keep pumping out the teen/glamour titles.

[Jeddy]

It's the Unknown Soldier mini series # 6 from 1989.

[Lone Ranger]

It's the Unknown Soldier mini series # 6 from 1989.

Jeddy!!

How are you? Haven't seen you in a while.

Looks like you haven't lost your touch - 300 points for you!

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - There has been more than one series with this title.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This title continued the numbering from another series.

[Roquefort Raider]

Captain America #180, introducing the Nomad.

I recognized the Kane finger from the first hint, but wasted some time looking at Rawhide Kid covers. (Do you realize how many covers have a hand holding a gun in just that position)?

The second hint pretty much cliched it.

[Lone Ranger]

Captain America #180, introducing the Nomad.

I recognized the Kane finger from the first hint, but wasted some time looking at Rawhide Kid covers. (Do you realize how many covers have a hand holding a gun in just that position)?

The second hint pretty much cliched it.

There are a ton of covers with that gun position - I had hope to steer people away from superhero books, but you spotted it Ben.

300 points for you.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Red Oak Kid]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

That is a solid black shadow as inked by Vince Colletta.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

[Mike Kuypers]

Are you giving us different parts of the same cover?

[Lone Ranger]

Are you giving us different parts of the same cover?


No

Of course not.

Everything is normal here - it's the regular system. A slightly larger and larger piece of the same portion of the cover.

Everything is fine folks - nothing to worry about. Move along.

What are you talking about Mike Kuypers ???

You're crazy! Stop talking crazy!

;)

[Mike Kuypers]

The Lone Ranger is messing with my mind!!! :eek:

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - This series made its debut in the 40s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 4th clue

HINT - According to the GCD both Jack Kamen and George Tuska contributed to this title

[Graham Vingoe]

Fight comics 55 is close to it. both the guys mentioned worked on that title, and 55 at least has a girl and a gorilla on it

This is way out of my comfort zone anyway I jsut felt like a randomly targeted guess:o

[T GUy]

Well, this is proving tricky. I had no real idea from the first two clews... then No. 3 sent me scuttling off to Adventures into the Unknown with no result. Now I've just come back from both Jumbo Comics and Jungle Comics with no result (possibly due to the GCD not loading about four covers per page as quickly as the rest).

Talking of the GCD, had it been behaving yesterday lunchtime, I'ld've got that Cap cover. I had it narowed down to the period between Kirby's two runs on that incarnation of the title. :(

[T GUy]

Well, this is proving tricky. I had no real idea from the first two clews... then No. 3 sent me scuttling off to Adventures into the Unknown with no result. Now I've just come back from both Jumbo Comics and Jungle Comics with no result (possibly due to the GCD not loading about four covers per page as quickly as the rest).

Talking of the GCD, had it been behaving yesterday lunchtime, I'ld've got that Cap cover. I had it narowed down to the period between Kirby's two runs on that incarnation of the title. :(

[Lone Ranger]

You guys are, or have been, on the right track. This cover is definitely up on the GCD.

If you try really hard, I am sure that you ca'a'n solve it.

[Mike Kuypers]

Ka'a'nga #1!!!

[Graham Vingoe]

Wow! not only have I never heard of it, I dont think I can pronounce it either!
good catch there,Mike.

[Mike Kuypers]

Wow! not only have I never heard of it, I dont think I can pronounce it either!
good catch there,Mike.

Heck, it took me four tries to spell it correctly! If not for LR's "ca'a'n" clue I never would have gotten it.

[Lone Ranger]

Ka'a'nga #1!!!

That's it - 100 points for Mike K!

This is actually a really wonderful book - beautiful artwork.

I figured people would eventually just do a 'Fiction House' search on the GCD and find their way to this series.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It was published in the 70s

[Graham Vingoe]

I always believe in going with first instinct, and that looks like a purple tentacle to me, so the most logical choice would then be Starro, so my first instinct knowing LR loves Jim Aparo, is Adventure Comics 451

Hoepfully!

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It is a DC book

[T GUy]

LR re 370: If you try really hard, I am sure that you ca'a'n solve it.
Yeah, I'ld've run straight to the correct title from that hint. Sadly, I had to go and play with a brace of Primary Schools. Not as entertaining as Guessing The Classic Cover, but more useful for paying the mortgage...

I salute Mike Kuypers! And the luckless Graham Vingoe (who sent me hoofing off after Rangers Comics covers, reasoning that a gorilla might turn up in the American plains... in Golden Age comics, at any rate...).

[T GUy]

Once again, I concur with Graham - I've just spent some considerable time on the GCD's splendid collection of The Brave and The Bold covers without identifying this beauty.

I am still half-convinced that this is an Aparo B&B cover. My first thought from clue 2 was an issue guest-starring Green Lantern.

[InfoBroker]

Hmmmm...

Jim Aparo might not be a bad guess...

but...

Going out on a limb here...

Don't have time to check...

Only gave the clue a quick glance or two...

So for whatever it might be worth to people...

My Don Heck sensors are twitching.

-jb the (covers his bases with caveats) ib -

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Gil Kane and Curt Swan contributed to this series

[Graham Vingoe]

okey-dokey, this is going to annoy me intensely for a couple of hours. I fully expect someone to get this by the time I wake up tomorrow so I'll give my instincts about Jim Aparo time to simmer, and hopefully, if it has gone it wont be one of the 3 B and the B covers I'd considered and decided were wrong.
ps just read LRs 3rd clue and Action Comics screams out at me instead. Cest la vie!

[Mike Kuypers]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Gil Kane and Curt Swan contributed to this series

Hmm. This looks familiar. ;)

[Red Oak Kid]

I'm sure this is not Aparo. It is very Adams without being Adams. I think it is Mike Nasser.

[T GUy]

Mike: Hmm. This looks familiar.

Yeah, the LR had me thinking that too. Before I looked at all those B&B covers.

Oh, and I don't think that the Infobroker's on the right track with his Don Heck antennae. If it isn't Aparo, I reckon it's Adams - and that Mike may be familiar with the cover of B&B No. 84 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22758&zoom=4).

Graham, I've just come back from Action Comics ca. 400, when Adams was DC's primary cover artist. I see you found nothing there either...

[Mike Kuypers]

Actually the "familiar" I referred to was the visual clue itself. It seems like only yesterday I saw it...

Zeroing in one the cover shouldn't be this difficult. We have the company -- DC -- and the decade -- 1970s. To me the Swan/Kane clue suggested Adventure Comics, but that was a strike-out, too.

[Mike Kuypers]

I'm sure this is not Aparo. It is very Adams without being Adams. I think it is Mike Nasser.

Mike Grell was an Adams imitator, too.

[Red Oak Kid]

I checked the limited Nasser cover catalogue, so I withdraw my vote for Nasser.

But that is a classic Nasser, Grindberg, Sinkiwhizzzzz leg. And it really looks like Adams inks, not Giordano.

Grell's work was a notch slicker IMO. I can usually distinguish between him and a true Crusty Bunker.

I have no mouth and I must scream.

[Bill Angus]

Batman Family #12?

[T GUy]

So we're now narrowed down to DC 1970s but NOT:

Adams or Grell, but an Adams impersonator

Adventure, Action, B&B, DC Special (revival), DC Special Series, Phantom Stranger, DC Comics Presents.

:confused:

I just know I shall be:o when it's revealed.

I'm winding down for bed time in London now - more Primary School action beckons on the (Gray?) morrow.

[T GUy]

Well done, Bill! Thanks for putting us out of our misery!

I was on the verge of visiting Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics' Time Machine and starting in January, 1970 slogging through month by month. I would have found this (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=31186&zoom=4) eventually, I'm sure.

[Mike Kuypers]

Bill's right, and it was Jim Aparo all along. Sheesh!

[Red Oak Kid]

Where was MWGallaher when you need him?

[Lone Ranger]

Batman Family #12?

Nice job Bill - 200 points for you.

I too, thought our esteemed colleague from Huntsville might have nailed this one - but perhaps he had a busy day.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It was published in the 60s

[MWGallaher]

I was here in and out--dealing with my wife's illness and going to doctors and stuff today--and I knew it was Aparo on the second clue (and kept it to myself, of course, seeing the controversy!). But, believe it or not, Aparo's Batman covers (and related titles, excepting B&B) are my weak spot. There are so many that I didn't buy when they were on the stands, and of course, those are the ones that stick with you, right? I got particularly stumped with the blue boots/blue leggings, but I was never going to remember what I think was a one-shot villain. If only I'd recognized Man-Bat I'd have probably headed in the right direction. Ah, well, far from the first Aparo cover I've missed here! It's nice to be reminded of it, because this is a pretty good one. Too many of his covers in this era show their Ross Andru design origins; those I really don't care for. This one shows stronger Aparo roots.

[Red Oak Kid]

I was here in and out--dealing with my wife's illness and going to doctors and stuff today.

Both of my parents are in their 80s and I know the day is fast approaching when I will have to deal with this. I really dread it. Good luck.

I apologize for thread drift.

[Red Oak Kid]

I was never going to remember what I think was a one-shot villain.

Btw, who is that female on the cover?

[MWGallaher]

Btw, who is that female on the cover?
I'm not certain, but I think it was Man-Bat's wife, temporarily turned into a villain. Maybe I'll root this one up and confirm...

And if you'll pardon my over-analysis, this is a great example of a cover shot that looks good but doesn't make much sense when you really think about what it's depicting. Batgirl is keeping pace with a motorcycle, and Robin is riding a bike lethally into the bodies of both his enemy and his comrade.

[Red Oak Kid]

I'm not certain, but I think it was Man-Bat's wife, temporarily turned into a villain. Maybe I'll root this one up and confirm...

I hope not. I will be even more depressed to know that Man-bat has a sexy Aparo wife and I don't.:D

[MWGallaher]

Well, as far as I'm concerned, Man-Bat actually has a sexy Robbins wife...is that a little easier to deal with?

[Graham Vingoe]

Back this morning, thankfully my instincts about the Batman Family 12 cover were completely off-track apart from recognising it as Aparo art. At the least I'm really thankful for the fact that I spent ages looking at Brave and the Bold covers. At the time I didn't think much of them but now I'm struck by how good and dynamic they were. Must have a little trawl on Ebay.

[T GUy]

MWG: I'm not certain, but I think it was Man-Bat's wife

Francine Langstrom.

And if you'll pardon my over-analysis, this is a great example of a cover shot that looks good but doesn't make much sense when you really think about what it's depicting. Batgirl is keeping pace with a motorcycle, and Robin is riding a bike lethally into the bodies of both his enemy and his comrade.

Our covers are not intended to present a completely literal depiction of an event from the inside story, but rather to sum up in one exciting scene the essenceof the story within the issue.

[Lone Ranger]

I'm not certain, but I think it was Man-Bat's wife, temporarily turned into a villain. Maybe I'll root this one up and confirm...



I am 99% sure it's not Francine. I read this one quite a while ago, but IIRC - there is a gang that utilizes moon beam power, and they have a gun that eventually turns Man-Bat into a Were-Jaguar (some South American myth). I believe that all of the (most of the action take place in Central Park - or the Gotham equivalent).

I don't believe Batgirl and Robin are involved in the Man-Bat story, but appear in the same story, in which their motorcycles have minds of their own and take them to meet up in Gotham - the story is continued in the next issue (with the Outsider on the cover).

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This series was cancelled in the 70s

[Roquefort Raider]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This series was cancelled in the 70s

Oy, there was something silver-surferesquy about this one... But it turned out to be a red herring.

(Is there a comic-book character called Red Herring?)

[Mike Kuypers]

Oy, there was something silver-surferesquy about this one... But it turned out to be a red herring.

(Is there a comic-book character called Red Herring?)

If there is, the Sub-Mariner probably fought him in the '60s. :)

[Mike Kuypers]

I don't believe Batgirl and Robin are involved in the Man-Bat story, but appear in the same story, in which their motorcycles have minds of their own and take them to meet up in Gotham - the story is continued in the next issue (with the Outsider on the cover).

DC brought back the Outsider? (I didn't collect Batman Family.) The original was Alfred, of course. Who took over the role?

[Lone Ranger]

DC brought back the Outsider? (I didn't collect Batman Family.) The original was Alfred, of course. Who took over the role?

It was still Alfred - I believe it all had to do with the Outsider being buried deep within his psyche. Something along those lines.

[Bill Angus]

Well done, Bill! Thanks for putting us out of our misery!

I was on the verge of visiting Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics' Time Machine and starting in January, 1970 slogging through month by month. I would have found this (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=31186&zoom=4) eventually, I'm sure.

See - that's what I did. I, like many of you, wasn't certain who the artist was - so it seemed like the only logical way to solve this one (never having owned or even seen this cover before).

[Roquefort Raider]

If there is, the Sub-Mariner probably fought him in the '60s. :)

Harh! Good one!

Sub-Mariner fights the communist menace from below the waves... The Red Herring!!!

[Mike Kuypers]

I can see it now; Red Herring forms a group comprised of The Red Ghost, The Red Guardian, and half of Iron Man's old foes and calls it The Red Menace. Capitalists beware!

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Don Heck and Dick Ayers contributed to this title

[MichikoS]

Captain Marvel #6 (Marvel 1968 series)

Michi

[Red Oak Kid]

Why does the GCD scans start with ish 7. Did it start out as a reprint mag or something?

mac

[Mike Kuypers]

Why does the GCD scans start with ish 7. Did it start out as a reprint mag or something?

mac

Nah. The first 6 issues are listed as "Marvel's Space-Born Superhero! Captain Marvel." Heaven knows why. I doubt it's titled that way in the indicia.

http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=1869

[Red Oak Kid]

Thanks Mike,

The inking on those clues sorta looked like John Verpooten's work. I think Twomorrows is coming out with an "The Art of John Verpooten" book.

I just like the sound of Verpooten.

[Red Oak Kid]

I see that Arnold Drake wrote that ish. I guess this was after he got S@*$canned by DC.

Way to go Arnie.

[Red Oak Kid]

Nah. The first 6 issues are listed as "Marvel's Space-Born Superhero! Captain Marvel." Heaven knows why. I doubt it's titled that way in the indicia.

http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=1869

Hey, maybe Marvel was covering their ass, thinking that DC might have the CM title copyrighted, since they won that lawsuit with Fawcett.

[Lone Ranger]

Captain Marvel #6 (Marvel 1968 series)

Michi

Nice job Michi - 200 points for you.

I was a bit confused by the GCD's system at first too.

I don't think I'd ever seen this one before, until I bought it as part of a large Captain Marvel lot (although the seller mixed the Fawcett version in with the Marvel version).

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

NOTE - I am out of town for a wedding starting early tomorrow AM, so I won't be posting until Sunday PM. Have a good weekend, everyone.

[Red Oak Kid]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

NOTE - I am out of town for a wedding starting early tomorrow AM, so I won't be posting until Sunday PM. Have a good weekend, everyone.

This is why I hate weddings.

[Rob Allen]

LR:

Not as far as I'm able to tell. I was about to post that Navy Combat and maybe Navy Action survived Black October, but luckilly I looked it up on the GCD before committing this to 'print' and found it wasn't so.

Odd that a whole genre was represented by only one title, but I suppose Martin Goodman and Stan the Man felt it more necessary to keep pumping out the teen/glamour titles.
I think their choices of genre were heavily influenced by their new distributor, which was of course owned by the same people who owned DC.

It's interesting that DC cancelled their last two western comics within months of Marvel cancelling their last war comic (until Sgt. Fury three years later).

[J'onn J'onzz]

It was still Alfred - I believe it all had to do with the Outsider being buried deep within his psyche. Something along those lines.

Only Outsider story I've read was the one where Batman and the Outsiders met the Outsider. I've always iked the Outsiders, but that story was so... odd... The Outsider gets mad that the Outsiders stole his name. Corny, much?

And, why was #6 under "Marvel's Spaceborn Superhero! Captain Marvel!"? It didn't even have that on the title!

[MichikoS]

I have a funny memory about this particular comic [Captain Marvel #6]. I bought it new out of a comic vending machine in 1968. I think we may have discussed this contraption in a thread last year.

Just inside the front doors of the A&P Supermarket was this blue metal box, on legs, with a glass front. It was a comic vending machine, just a little wider than two comics laid end to end.

There were five stacks of comics on each side of the case, stored cover up and spine-side out behind the glass, tilted about 20 degrees and stacked against a metal plate. There was a coin plunger for each stack of comics. You put a dime on on side and 2 pennies on the other and pushed the plunger in. That moved the metal plate down a notch, and released the first comic in the stack, which fell to the bottom of the case. There was a door at the bottom that pushed inward, just like candy machines today.

You could only see the first comic on the stack, and of course that's the only one you could buy. You had 10 choices, true, but that's a remarkably stupid way to sell comics nonetheless.

Ah, the good old days, when comics were disposable, interchangeable, and incredibly cheap. Even with my puny allowance, I depleted that machine on a regular basis, a dime and two pennies at a time.

Weird memory. I wonder if there are any of those comic vending machines gathering dust somewhere in an old warehouse? :eek:

Michi

[T GUy]

Rob A: I think their choices of genre were heavily influenced by their new distributor, which was of course owned by the same people who owned DC.

Doh! Of course! It's obvious when you point it out.

And, of course, DC were not heavilly into teen humour/glamour profession comics in the late 'fifties.

It's interesting that DC cancelled their last two western comics within months of Marvel cancelling their last war comic (until Sgt. Fury three years later).

Yes, isn't it? I'd never thought of this before - I always thought (if I thought about it at all) that this was a combination of westerns dying out and Schwartz and his pet freelancers being required for new superhero books.

I should have known better on the first point, as, IIRR, U. S. T. V. in the early 'sixties was a reservoir of westerns.

[scratchie]

Nah. The first 6 issues are listed as "Marvel's Space-Born Superhero! Captain Marvel." Heaven knows why. I doubt it's titled that way in the indicia.It is, actually.

[Mike Kuypers]

I have a funny memory about this particular comic [Captain Marvel #6]. I bought it new out of a comic vending machine in 1968. I think we may have discussed this contraption in a thread last year.

Just inside the front doors of the A&P Supermarket was this blue metal box, on legs, with a glass front. It was a comic vending machine, just a little wider than two comics laid end to end.

There were five stacks of comics on each side of the case, stored cover up and spine-side out behind the glass, tilted about 20 degrees and stacked against a metal plate. There was a coin plunger for each stack of comics. You put a dime on on side and 2 pennies on the other and pushed the plunger in. That moved the metal plate down a notch, and released the first comic in the stack, which fell to the bottom of the case. There was a door at the bottom that pushed inward, just like candy machines today.

You could only see the first comic on the stack, and of course that's the only one you could buy. You had 10 choices, true, but that's a remarkably stupid way to sell comics nonetheless.

Ah, the good old days, when comics were disposable, interchangeable, and incredibly cheap. Even with my puny allowance, I depleted that machine on a regular basis, a dime and two pennies at a time.

Weird memory. I wonder if there are any of those comic vending machines gathering dust somewhere in an old warehouse? :eek:

The only comic book I specifically remember buying from a vending machine (although I'm sure I bought others) is Thor #165. The reason I remember it so well is because I already had #166 (the second half of a two-parter featuring Him) and had missed #165. In those pre-comic-book-store days finding a comic you missed was like a little gift from heaven.

I also remember when the price of comics went from 12¢ to 15¢ the vending machine coin slots were changed to accept a dime and a nickel. After that I never saw another comic book vending machine.

[Mike Kuypers]

It is, actually.

Man, what a mouthful!

[MWGallaher]

Hey, maybe Marvel was covering their ass, thinking that DC might have the CM title copyrighted, since they won that lawsuit with Fawcett.
Fascinating. The cover's trademark symbol is on the phrase "Marvel's Space-Born Superhero!", not on "Captain Marvel", so I think you're on the right track: Marvel wasn't positive that they'd be able to successfully trademark "Captain Marvel". (Complicating the matter is the fact that just a few years earlier, M.F. had published their own "Captain Marvel", and despite the dodginess of their output, their trademark might have still been valid enough for them to defend.)

[Mike Kuypers]

Fascinating. The cover's trademark symbol is on the phrase "Marvel's Space-Born Superhero!", not on "Captain Marvel", so I think you're on the right track: Marvel wasn't positive that they'd be able to successfully trademark "Captain Marvel". (Complicating the matter is the fact that just a few years earlier, M.F. had published their own "Captain Marvel", and despite the dodginess of their output, their trademark might have still been valid enough for them to defend.)

However, there is a TM symbol on Marvel Super-Heroes #13, the only place I could find one that early. MSH #12 doesn't have one, but all the character names at the bottom do.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=21730&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=21519&zoom=4

[T GUy]

Mike, ..there is a TM symbol on Marvel Super-Heroes #13, the only place I could find one that early. MSH #12 doesn't have one, but all the character names at the bottom do.

Oddly, the title 'Marvel Super-Heroes' has a 'TM' symbol on the cover of No. 12 but not No. 13.

[Red Oak Kid]

I have a funny memory about this particular comic [Captain Marvel #6]. I bought it new out of a comic vending machine in 1968. I think we may have discussed this contraption in a thread last year.

Just inside the front doors of the A&P Supermarket was this blue metal box, on legs, with a glass front. It was a comic vending machine, just a little wider than two comics laid end to end.

There were five stacks of comics on each side of the case, stored cover up and spine-side out behind the glass, tilted about 20 degrees and stacked against a metal plate. There was a coin plunger for each stack of comics. You put a dime on on side and 2 pennies on the other and pushed the plunger in. That moved the metal plate down a notch, and released the first comic in the stack, which fell to the bottom of the case. There was a door at the bottom that pushed inward, just like candy machines today.

You could only see the first comic on the stack, and of course that's the only one you could buy. You had 10 choices, true, but that's a remarkably stupid way to sell comics nonetheless.

Ah, the good old days, when comics were disposable, interchangeable, and incredibly cheap. Even with my puny allowance, I depleted that machine on a regular basis, a dime and two pennies at a time.

Weird memory. I wonder if there are any of those comic vending machines gathering dust somewhere in an old warehouse? :eek:

Michi

You are making this up.

HA! the very idea of a "comic book vending machine" is absurd.

You probably think we landed a man on the moon too.

[MichikoS]

You are making this up.

HA! the very idea of a "comic book vending machine" is absurd.

You probably think we landed a man on the moon too.
ROK, here's another side-splitter: I had to stop shopping for comics at one drugstore I used to frequent because the proprietor didn't want me "buying up all the comics." I would sometimes bring 2 or 3 copies of the same title up to the counter, and this old guy thought that was a Communist plot or something. He grudgingly sold me doubles on a few occasions, but he didn't like it. He finally just flatly refused to sell comics to me, period. I was crushed. Just one more way I was made to feel freakish as a kid for liking comics.

Michi
p.s. You know very well we have daily flights to the moon, courtesy of PanAm, with groovy Space Age stewardesses.;)

[Red Oak Kid]

p.s. You know very well we have daily flights to the moon, courtesy of PanAm, with groovy Space Age stewardesses.;)

Yeah and there is the tunnel under the Atlantic connecting the U.S. and Europe.

Popular Mechanics magazine proved it.

In the early 70s, as a teen ager, I was buying all the latest comics at a neighborhood 7-11. For a few weeks there was this beautiful girl working there who always wore this short purple mini skirt.

One day, when I put my latest purchases on the counter, she asked, "why are you still reading comic books?". Before I could answer(not that I had an answer) the other guy working the counter said " ....because they are going to be worth a fortune in the future."

God, I still remember that purple mini skirt.

[Lone Ranger]

I'm back!

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It was published in the 60s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - George Tuska and Dick Ayers contributed to this series

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 4th clue

HINT - This publisher is perhaps best known for its 'Ghost' stories.

[Lone Ranger]

HINT - This publisher is perhaps best known for its 'Ghost' stories.

Umm....

Let's see.

There was nothing 'Spooky' about those 'Ghost' stories, in fact the humour was quite 'Rich'.

[Mike Kuypers]

Alarming Adventures #2.

[Lone Ranger]

Alarming Adventures #2.

Mike - I am tempted to give you bonus points for putting this one out of its misery:D

100 points for Mike K

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 1st clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is a DC book

[Mike Kuypers]

Mike - I am tempted to give you bonus points for putting this one out of its misery:D

For the longest time I thought it was a Charlton comic. Which is why I didn't even begin looking at covers until the third clue. I wasn't sure if No. 4's "Ghost" clue referred to Charlton or Harvey. (Either way I was out of my element!) By the time you gave that final broad hint it occurred to me to Google "George Tuska + Harvey."

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It was published in the 70s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Kurt Schaffenberger contributed to this series

[spoon_jenkins]

Is it Superman #317?

[Red Oak Kid]

I knew I should have stayed awake and waited for the 3rd clue.

[Lone Ranger]

Is it Superman #317?

Indeed it is - 200 points for Spoon.

ROK asked for more Neal Adams covers, so I had to oblige.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - It is not a Big Two book

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - This series was cancelled in the 60s

[T GUy]

Having recognised Prize's price lettering style, I ran that down as their Young Love No. 7 (click here for link to GCD cover (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=175453&zoom=4)).

[Lone Ranger]

Having recognised Prize's price lettering style, I ran that down as their Young Love No. 7 (click here for link to GCD cover (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=175453&zoom=4)).

Nice job - 200 points for T Guy

Here is the full cover - new one up soon

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It has a 10 cent cover price

[Cherokee Jack]

[QUOTE=Red Oak Kid]I knew I should have stayed awake and waited for the 3rd clue.[/QUOTE

It does get hard to stay up past eight o'clock when one gets to your advanced age. :) (I speak from experience.)

[Red Oak Kid]

It does get hard to stay up past eight o'clock when one gets to your advanced age. :) (I speak from experience.)

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[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 2nd clue

HINT - This series made its debut in the 40s

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 3rd clue

HINT - Win Mortimer and Sheldon Moldoff contributed to this series

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the 4th clue

HINT - This series was based on a Radio & TV show

[MichikoS]

Mr. District Attorney #41

Michi

[Lone Ranger]

Mr. District Attorney #41

Michi

Nice job Michi - 100 points for you.

I figured that this war cover would confuse people.

Here is the full cover - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It was published in the 70s

[Roquefort Raider]

Marvel comics super special #3,

adapting Close encounters of the third kind.

It had that unmistakingly not-quite super-heroic Marvel '70s look, but after a quick check wasn't a Marvel preview cover, so...

[Lone Ranger]

Marvel comics super special #3,

adapting Close encounters of the third kind.

It had that unmistakingly not-quite super-heroic Marvel '70s look, but after a quick check wasn't a Marvel preview cover, so...

Very nice work, Ben. 400 big points for you.

Here it is in full - new one up soon.

[Lone Ranger]

Here is the first clue to the next classic cover

HINT - It is a DC book