FAVORITE COMIX COVERS

[TomLupo]

COMIC BOOK COVERS MEAN A LOT TO US. SOME ARE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF OUR FIRST COMICS....SOME ARE BY OUR FAVORITE ARTISTS....SOME ARE OUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS, AND SOME ARE JUST FRIGGIN' FUNNY.

HERE ARE SOME OF MINE....I HOPE TO YOUSE FOLLY MY LEAD!

THIS KINDA FREAKED ME OUT WHEN I BOUGHT THIS AS A KID.....


CLASSIC SIMON AND KIRBY.....I ACTUALLY OWN THIS BABY


CARMINE INFANTINO AT HIS BEST!!!


ANOTHER FAVORITE FROM MY YOUTH!


FUNNY AND SEXY!!

[Sliverbane]

OOOooo! I want to share!!



Haunting...Bad Ass!!


My first comic...and a very S&M Predator...LOL. Still love it.


The hills are aaaalive with the sound of muuuusic!


I wanted this signed poster sooooo bad! Being 12 and broke sucked! Machiko and Broken Tusk awesome!!



This parody was HILARIOUS! The Editor strikes again!


I point to this close up as my spring board to learning to draw the Predator so well. Chris Warner represented the Predator soooo well. :D

[Guy]

Well it should come as no surprise that my favorites are of course relating to Guy Gardner.

Guy Gardner #1


This was my first Guy Gardner comic, after which I had to get as many as I cuold get my hands on.


He's pretty badass with a GL ring too, maybe even better.

[Sliverbane]

Oooh, neat! Keep'em coming!

[SebastianPiccione]

The first comic my Dad gave me as a kid. Why anyone would give this to a 12 year old in 1984, I have no idea.

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The second one he got me.

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This one I got eventually, but the cover is classic. They even snuck this scene into the Movies.

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And this, at the age of 12, is the first comic back issue I ever bought, with my own money, at the convention held the 1st Sunday of everymonth, at the Coliseum Motor in, on Long Island. My dad would bring me & my brother. Dad & Chris bought baseball cards. Dad & I bought comics. Those cons were one of the very few things the three of us enjoyed together. They made this cover into a t-shirt several years ago. I still own it. I wear it whenever my Dad comes to visit FL or I hit NY. I never mention it, or why I'm in it. It's just my private litle "Thank you, Dad".

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[Sliverbane]

And this, at the age of 12, is the first comic back issue I ever bought, with my own money, at the convention held the 1st Sunday of everymonth, at the Coliseum Motor in, on Long Island. My dad would bring me & my brother. Dad & Chris bought baseball cards. Dad & I bought comics. Those cons were one of the very few things the three of us enjoyed together. They made this cover into a t-shirt several years ago. I still own it. I wear it whenever my Dad comes to visit FL or I hit NY. I never mention it, or why I'm in it. It's just my private litle "Thank you, Dad".

Very touching back story. Thanks for sharing. :)

[TomLupo]

WOW----FIRST OFF THE COVER TO THE FIRST PREDATOR COMIC IS JUST WONDERFUL!! WHO DID THE ART??

GUY GARDNER IS MY FAVORITE GL...I WILL LATER SHARE MY FAVORITE GUY COVER.

ONCE UPON A TIME I HAD THAT SPIDEY #4...I DO OWN THE #50 TODAY.
NICE STORY TOO DUDE!! THIS IS GONNA BE AN AWESOME THREAD!

[SebastianPiccione]

These are the first comics I remember buying off the spinner racks in the stationary store next to my Dad's candy store.

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[TomLupo]

THIS SUMS UP GUY FOR ME!!!


THIS COVER JUST MAKES ME WELL UP!!


THIS WAS THE FIRST HULK COMIC I EVER BOUGHT........I ACTUALLY BOUGHT AN OLD FANTASTIC FOUR COMIC WITH THE HULK IN IT FIRST......I WAS HOOKED ON OLD CABBAGE HEAD!


BACK IN THE MID 70'S THERE WAS A USED BOOK STORE BY MY HOUSE THAT HAD TONS OF OLD COMICS.........I GOT INTO THE METAL MEN SOLEY FOR THE COVERS.....BUT THE STORIES BACK THEN WERE ALSO FUN. TODAY WHEN I READ THEM THEY MAKE ME LAUGH...I LOVE THE ROSS ANDRU ART!!


SIMPLY PEREZ AT HIS BEST...........THE MAN IS A LEGEND!!

[Sliverbane]

Who did the Predator: Big Game cover? Chris Warner I believe. All the covers he did are damn cool!

The Avengers cover is frigg'n awesome!

[TomLupo]

I LOVED THE PREDATOR/BATMAN COVERS FROM THE FIRST SERIES.....I GOTTA FIND SOME.

[TomLupo]

[DavidPaul]

[Sliverbane]

Cooool.
Love the World War Hulk cover. Any Heavy Metal is the awesome always!

To respond to a previous post. This is my favorite BatmanvsPredator cover: Who can resist a Bats Bear Hug!?! :D

Predator: Dude, is that your utility belt or are you just happy to see me?

[SebastianPiccione]

[SebastianPiccione]

The ones that started it all..

[DavidPaul]

Dude, that Predator head is freakin' huge! And what's with Guy Gardner? Out of all the GL's is Gardner your favorite?

[TomLupo]

GUY GARDNER RULES!!!

[SebastianPiccione]

He IS the "One, true Green lantern"!!!

And, in Booster Gold, we find out that in the future Guy will be considered the greatest Green lantern ever to live. Geoff Johns wrote that, and Geoff Johns knows hisl Lantern lore! :D

[SebastianPiccione]

This is the first Green Lantern issue I owned.

[TomLupo]

SOME OF MY FAVORITE BRAVE AND THE BOLD COVERS.......

[SebastianPiccione]

Way back, when I was working for COLLECTOR'S COMICS, in Wantagh NY, we used go through and make fun of recurring themes on old DC covers....

This was always a favorite... Find as many covers with the hero saying "..that fantastic creature..."

[TomLupo]

SHIT.........THOSE THREE COVERS ARE ONLY 2 YEARS APART. NICE WORK!!
I NOTICED ALL BUT ONE OF THE B+B COVERS I PUT UP...........BATMAN WAS IN PERIL!

[TomLupo]

OH.....AND TWO OF THOSE WORLDS FINEST COVERS......THE CLASSIC "GREAT SCOTT" IS VOICED!
AND IT LOOKS LIKE ALL THREE OF THE "FANTASTIC CREATURES" ON THOSE COVERS HAVE ONLY 8 FINGERS!

[DavidPaul]

Great Scot! Batman in peril at the hands of that fantastic creature. Again!

[TomLupo]

I TELL YA......FOR A LONG WHILE IN THE 50'S BATMAN FOUGHT MORE ALIENS THEN SUPERMAN.....

[ScottWilliams]

I've been trying to find the cover to my first comic book online some where but so far I haven' been able to find it.

I'm almost positive it was a Captain America special issue (I think it was an annual). It had the title in red, white and blue and had Gilgamesh (I think) punching at Captain America's shield. The story was a Kang arc. The Avengers were stuck in some sort of time bubble thing that held several different era's in one major city structure inside the bubble.

Thor was stuck at Ellis Island coming through with imigrants and someone renamed him Joe Smith or something and then he started to fade away because he was a god that no one believed in at the time and apparently needed the faith of people to exist. I think it was also the issue where Gilgamesh either died or was dying at Avengers HQ.

This might have been an Avengers comic but I think it was Captain America Annual between 1986 and 1991 ish?

[TomLupo]

THAT WOULD BE CAP ANNUAL #11......LET ME GO FIND A SCAN...

[TomLupo]

[ScottWilliams]

Yes! That's it! Thanks! I've been looking for that picture for a while!

[TomLupo]

NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DavidPaul]

Back when it was a real magazine.

[TomLupo]

[Sliverbane]

Woooo! Boris!! He's the one who inspired my artistic talents. Love that mans work!

More of my beloved Alien and Predator fav covers:

These Alien covers make the xenomorphs down right majestic. Yes, even when they're being burned alive.




Another awesome Predator cover!!

[Simon]

Any Judge Dredd Fans?

[Sliverbane]

Now thats one I hadn't seen! (Not in my collection *pout*) I bet Dredd had a 'fun time' with the Predator.

[TomLupo]

ITS A FUN BOOK.......

[SebastianPiccione]

Sorry...I don't do "Predator". Well....I DO do that clicking sound they make. Freaks my students out.

Anyway...here's one of the first AMazing Spidey's I remember buying off the racks...Currently, I'm only missing issue's 2 and 3.



And I own the original art to this Cover. Freakin' gorgeous Rick Leonardi work...Joe Rubenstein did the inks...I don't remember. Either way, I got it for 20 bucks when I was 19. That's the symbiote costume, too...



Here's a pic, sorry it's so crappy...took it with my phone...of the original.

[TomLupo]

I NEED TO GET SOME MORE ORIGINAL ART.....RIGHT NOW ALL I HAVE IS 2 PAGES MY BUDDY GAVE ME FROM HIS "ONE LIVE BEAST" BOOK.(ON SALE AT A LOCAL COMIC SHOP NEAR YOU)

[SebastianPiccione]

One Live Beast? Jeff's work is gorgeous! Be proud of those!

[TomLupo]

I AM!!! HE GAVE THEM TO ME AFTER I GOT HIM A GIG SIGNING HIS BOOK AT MY SHOP.

[TomLupo]

O.K........SOME SPIDEYS I LOVE!








EXCEPT THIS LAST ONE I BOUGHT ALL THESE WHEN THEY CAME OUT....PRETTY MUCH THE 70'S SPIDEYS WERE MY FAVORITES....I WAS A BIG FAN OF ROSS ANDRU'S ART BACK THEN......

[Sliverbane]

Sorry...I don't do "Predator".


You said you don't DO The Predator.... Heh.... :p

[TomLupo]

LOL!!!!!!!

I WONDER IF SEBBY WOULD "DO" THE THING.......

[SebastianPiccione]

Steve Ditko is the freakin' man!

[Simon]

Is that cannon? The Hulk can lift 150 BILLION TONS of rock????

[SebastianPiccione]

He's the Hulk. Do you want to tell him he can't!?

[Sliverbane]

Hulk: No, no...thanks guys. Just sit there...no need to assist. Hulk isn't holding up Mt Olympus to save your sorry asses....no really....just do nothing. ;)

[SebastianPiccione]

Hah! :D

[TomLupo]

I ONCE SAW THE HULK LIFT ROSIE O'DONNELL........HE'S FUCKIN' VERY STRONG!!

[TomLupo]

BACK TO DITKO.........I'M NOT A HUGE FAN OF HIM ON SPIDEY.....BUT HIS DR. STRANGE WAS AWESOME......

[DavidPaul]

My fave Incredible Hulk cover by my fave Incredible Hulk artist Dale Keown.

[SebastianPiccione]

Gee, Dave...couldn't you find a bigger pic? :D

[Sliverbane]

Yeah....Hulk Huge! ;)

[TomLupo]

HERE IS A LINK I USE TO FIND COVERS.........
http://www.coverbrowser.com/

[DavidPaul]

Shit. You're right. That cover is friggin huge.

[TomLupo]

[LiamBradley]

well?

[MartinBrandt]

The first comic I remember reading was a Brave and the Bold. It had something to do with Batman and Superman fighting Nazi soldiers I think.

It was a long time ago, it is the first one I remember, but not my first comic I am sure. My dad used to buy dc comics all the time for me long before I could read.

I was predisposed to be a batfan and I still have my superman curtains packed away. :)

[MattDocMartin]

Do not remember first I read, but first I bought was Avengers #236.

I skipped lunch to buy that comic!

[LiamBradley]

haha, Mav, your fate was already determined.

Matt, that's comittment dude, skipping lunch :O

the first comic I bought with my own money was Ultimate Spider-Man 1

but before that I'd been reading alot of my uncles old uncanny x-men and old spidey titles.

[BradHuffman-Parent]

Can't remember my first ever, think it may have been an old Hulk comic from the 70s or very early 80s. Had some Batman from that same time period too.

The comic that started my days of serious collecting was Uncanny X-Men #222.

[LiamBradley]

222 is my lucky number :p

seriously is haha!

[SebastianPiccione]

On a very similar note, we had his thread going some time back. You guys should check it out, and/or add your own to it.

http://www.projectfanboy.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1402

[LiamBradley]

ahh, can you merge them ?:p

not sure how this forum set up is, but over at my old forum I had the option of merging all duplicate threads :p

[LukeHalsall]

First one i remember buying was a spidey comic back in early 90s.

[LiamBradley]

god you're old!

haha, kidding!:p

[LukeHalsall]

god you're old!

haha, kidding!:p

Yep

So old that the memory can't even remember what kind of Spidey title it was. Things were different when i was a nipper. HAHA :D

[LiamBradley]

haha, a nipper.

Just a wee bambino!

[tiggerpete]

the first comic I read was a really old one my dad had from when he was a kid, no idea the title, as the cover had fallen off, but it had Superboy in it and the reason why Lex Luthor hates him (made him bald) also there was some Green Arrow stories, as well as the origin of Thor. I can't remember that well as it was a looooong time ago. the first comic I got for myself was actually a various stack of them I got for Christmas one year, the one I remember the most was a Green Lantern where Kyle Rayner was fighting Major Force after finding his girlfriend in the freezer, and as he was about to kill Force, Alan Scott shows up and breaks up the fight (at least that is what I think happened, as I didn't get comics again for another ten years, back into it now for a few years though) I think it was GL 55 or 56, I am not sure.

[tiggerpete]

the first comic I read was a really old one my dad had from when he was a kid, no idea the title, as the cover had fallen off, but it had Superboy in it and the reason why Lex Luthor hates him (made him bald) also there was some Green Arrow stories, as well as the origin of Thor. I can't remember that well as it was a looooong time ago.

It was actually a box full of old comics, without a cover to be found, kids were pretty rough on things in those days

[LiamBradley]

aw that was quite horrible when he found his girlfriend in the freezer, quite disturbing!

[tiggerpete]

and very memorable for a ten year old kid.

[maverick]

Pretty sure it was a Fantastic Four....not really sure the #...

[RyanEldridge]

I remember the first comic I ever read was a reprint of Superman #161. I read that thing until it disintegrated.

[SebastianPiccione]

Merged.

[LiamBradley]

awesome

[LiamBradley]

wait, this isn't the same thread ?:|

favourite comic covers and first comic ever read is different :(

[tiggerpete]

wait, this isn't the same thread ?:|

favourite comic covers and first comic ever read is different :(

exactly, my favorite covers aren't from my first comics, and I don't even remember the covers to my first comics.