Archive for the ‘Amazing Covers’ Category

February 28, 2009 0

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #68 by Giffen & Austin

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers, comics

In honor of the still-delayed Ambush Bug #6, here’s a fun Giffen/Austin cover from 1985.  I’ve got nothing else to say other than I hope the current mini series wraps up soon.

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February 14, 2009 1

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #54

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers, comics

Can we all just agree that John Byrne’s artwork always looked better when it was inked and that there was no better inker on him than Terry Austin?  And it’s often overlooked that Austin was a decent artist on his own, as evidenced by this cover featuring the original X-Men and their early opponents. Terry [...]

February 7, 2009 0

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #97 by Dave Gibbons

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers

With only a month to go until the movie comes out, I keep telling myself I’ve got to reread Watchmen.  I have read the book so many times that I can almost picture it panel-by-panel in my mind but I do want to sit down with the actual book and go through it before seeing [...]

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January 31, 2009 0

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #91

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers, comics

Since Final Crisis just wrapped up, it seems only fitting to look back at Crisis on Infinite Earths and Amazing Heroes’ fantastic wrap up issue.  George Perez’s moody piece highlighting DC’s trinity (before they were really called that) is one of my single favorite pieces of art related to COIE.

August 25, 2007 0

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #100 by Jack Kirby (1986)

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers, comics

I love this retrospective cover, showing off just a few of Kirby’s greatest creations. If it was just the characters like Captain America, Darkseid and Captain Victory, it would be a nice and appropriate cover. But it’s the circular inset that makes this a great cover– with Guardian and the Newsboy Legion looking over Kirby’s [...]

July 21, 2007 0

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #78 by Jim Aparo

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers

Jim Aparo was one of the most under-rated Batman artists. This cover was done when the Outsiders split from Batman and moved to Hollywood from Gotham. With a bit better coloring, this could have been a much better cover. Whoever made the unfortunate decision to make Geo Force’s costume green and yellow hopefully never designed [...]

July 15, 2007 1

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes Preview Special #11 by Matt Wagner

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers

I was going to avoid using a Preview Special cover so soon after last week’s Jaime Hernandez cover but I found this one and thought it was fitting with the news of the Batman/Grendel collection coming out late this year. It must have been at the Chicago Comicon in 1989 or 1990 that Matt Wagner [...]

July 7, 2007 0

Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #62 by Jaime Hernandez

By Scott Cederlund in Amazing Covers

There are only two comic magazines that I feel the need to collect back issues of– Amazing Heroes and The Comics Journal. It’s hard to believe that there was once a time that Fantagraphics wrote about and championed mainstream superheroes but this was still in the early days of the direct market when it seemed [...]