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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Amazing Covers'
Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #100 by Jack Kirby (1986)
August 25th, 2007 · No Comments
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Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #78 by Jim Aparo
July 21st, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes Preview Special #11 by Matt Wagner
July 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 was [...]
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Amazing Covers– Amazing Heroes #62 by Jaime Hernandez
July 7th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
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