Greatest comic covers of all time

[An Ear In The Fireplace]

Cool, thanks for posting that. I'm having trouble getting images to work with the site I usually use, photobucket.

So many great covers have been posted, I can't keep them all in my head or even quote them all - Frazetta, Starlin, Kirby, Cardy, the Infantino/Anderson Spectre, Hernandez ....

That reminds me: is Nick Cardy mainly known for his cover work or did he ever have a long stint on the interiors of a series. Looking at his wiki article, I was thinking the best bet for me would be DC horror anthologies like House of Mystery, etc, in which he seemed to do a fair bit of artwork. And I see there's an Art of Nick Cardy book out as well - anyone seen it?

I love those Spectre covers but have a sneaking suspicion the stories inside might be a let-down... I should try them sometime, though.

Starlin was such a great cover and interior artist in the 70s, but I haven't enjoyed his later work nearly as much.

Cardy had a long career going back to his days in the Eisner shop, working on Lady Luck in the 40s. He did Congo Bill for DC and then in the 60s did a long run on Aquaman. Also work on Teen Titans and Bat Lash. Then in the 70s, publisher Infantino (being a fan of Nick's work) made him his cover guy.

Lots of other things that Cardy did, but those are some of the high points.

[Venomous Mask]

I'm sorry if I seem a bit repetitious, but Dark Horse in the early to mid-nineties had nothing but masterpieces when it came to its licensed comics:




(this is a full spread of the image used for the first edition of the Star Wars: Dark Empire graphic novel, sans text)

[An Ear In The Fireplace]

As we're on the subject of Cardy, my favourite covers were those he did for Action Comiics.

[icctrombone]

[icctrombone]

Not a great drawing but the symbol is great

[icctrombone]

Someone mentioned this cover

[edhopper]

I see that the thread has morphed from "Greatest of All Time" into "Covers I like"

[icctrombone]

Sorry man. "greatest" is subjective

[Scott Harris]

I see that the thread has morphed from "Greatest of All Time" into "Covers I like"

It pretty much did this right at the beginning. Personally, I do feel like there's a difference between covers I happen to like and covers I think deserve to be called the greatest, which is one reason I haven't really posted in this thread. But there's no harm in it really, and people have posted some cool looking covers.

[dupont2005]

It's too difficult to narrow down my favorites, let alone the greatest anything. Favorite movie, favorite song or album or band, favorite TV show, I'm just not good at picking favorites.

[Mormel]

As we're on the subject of Cardy, my favourite covers were those he did for Action Comiics.

I have to say this one looks pretty awesome.

[edhopper]

It pretty much did this right at the beginning. Personally, I do feel like there's a difference between covers I happen to like and covers I think deserve to be called the greatest, which is one reason I haven't really posted in this thread. But there's no harm in it really, and people have posted some cool looking covers.

Sorry, I forgot the big grins. I meant it as a light hearted observation not a criticism. Definitely subjective.

[icctrombone]

[edhopper]

If we are looking at Big John, we must consider:

[Venomous Mask]