Best Cover You've Never Seen--Power Of Shazam #4 (1995)

For what it's worth, when I'm appointed Commissioner Of Comics...

...one of my first acts will be to give Jerry Ordway all the money to do another Marvel Family series.

Who said nothing good ever came out of the 90s?

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Captain America #284 (1983)

By Mike Zeck And John Beatty.

Manic Rawhide Bonus--Gun Safety Tip!!

Please, please, please...

DON'T CARRY YOUR GUN IN YOUR MOUTH!!

(Yes, yes, I know, he's almost certainly not carrying his gun in his mouth. It's probably the gun from one of Rawhide Kid's opponents, knocked up into the air or some such. You tell Jack Kirby he drew it goofy!!)

From Rawhide Kid #31 (1962)

The Best Cover You've never Seen--Mask Comics #1 (1945)

Cover by L.B. Cole

Manic Monday Bonus--The Only PIece You Will Read Today Linking Billy Idol To Romance Comics!

I'm pretty certain that this is not what he meant,but I can't get Billy Idol's "White Wedding" out of my head when I see this cover:

And yes, it is an actual honest cover. So honest, in fact...

...that it's just a re-colored version of the splash panel art (or vice-versa). I like Sally's dress better on the cover, but the plain blue one on the inside is probably more appropriate for the "mountain folk" of the story.

Oh, and so you won't be able to get it out of your head, either:



You're welcome.

From Young Romance #70 (1954)

The Oddest Cover You've Never Seen--Detective Comics #87 (1944)!

Batman and Robin are apparently befuddled by penguin wallpaper!

Cover by Dick Sprang.

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Moon Knight #24 (1982)

Sweet heaven, that's a cover.

Pencils and inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, of course.

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Detective Comics #512 (1982)!!

America's health care system summed up in a picture:

Fun facts:

A) This scene never occurs in the comic. Liars, liars, liars.

B) That's not "Dr. Death" kicking Batman with a sandaled foot. That's his servant, Togo. Death is piloting the chopper.

C) It was, indeed, a fatal prescription, as Death invented a "super-allergen" that only he had a cure for, infected everyone in Gotham, and tried to blackmail the city for one billion dollars.

D) Batman, of course, is "naturally immune" to the allergen. Because he's f%^&in' Batman. Robin? Not so lucky.

E) Batman, from the ground, took out the helicopter with a batarang. Because he's f%^&in' Batman.

The cover is by Gene Colan and Dick Giordano. Because they're Gene f%^&in' Colan and Dick F%^&in' Giordano.

A Matter Of Perspective

What it feels like driving around on a day off...

What it feels like when I have to go to work...

Still, if I could trick out my car like this, it would be fine...

From New World #2 (2018), Archie #295 (1980) and Archie #135 (1963)

Manic Monday--Love And Monsters?!?

Covers can be deceiving.

After all, this cover makes it look like Konga (the giant ape, if you weren't sure) and the big lizard are having a knock down brawl...

But the splash panel? Well, that sure looks like a more...intimate...encounter?

Ewww....tongues and everything!

"Um, no kids, Konga and the monster are...fighting!! They're definitely fighting!! Here, read this issue of Archie, instead!"

Sadly, this is the last issue of Konga, so we can't see what happened nine months later...

From Konga #23 (1965)

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Sgt. Fury #92 (1971)

Pencils and inks by Herb Trimpe.

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Captain Marvel #15 (1969)

RIP, Marie Severin. Inks by John Verpoorten.

The Best Covers You've Never Seen--Mac Raboy Could Draw A Little Bit!!

Just a small sampling of Mac Raboy's many, many Captain Marvel Jr. covers:

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Showcase #29 (1960)

RIP, Russ Heath.

Colors by Jack Adler.

Manic Monday Bonus--Less Than Zero

Ooh, I loves me a good countdown:

Wait, what?!?! Don't stop there!!!

What the hell?? Now we'll never know what came next!!

Maybe Rocky Jones was referring to Zer, the recently uncovered city from Biblical times.

Or maybe he was talking about Zer, the 2017 Kurdish film by Kazim Ö?

Perhaps they were going to Zer, the first planet of the Gilese 581 start system, from the video game Osiris: New Dawn?

Or maybe, just maybe, Rocky was using the Basque pronoun for "what," or the Dalmatian verb "to go," or the archaic Romanian word for "whey," or...

Man, this is going to bug me forever....

From Space Adventures #18 (1955)

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Holocaust For Hire!

From 1979:

Cover by Dave Cockrum.

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Ghost Rider #6 (1951)

No, I have no idea why I'm hung up on the Western Ghost Rider this week...

...but Dick Ayers could draw the hell out of him!!

No wonder he brought the concept to Marvel with him a few years later...

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Ghost Rider #4 (1951)

So, you've always wanted to see Frank Frazetta draw the western Ghost Rider?

Your wish is my command:
:

HOLY SCHNIKES!!!!

If I weren't already honest, I'd be scared off from crime forever after that!!

The Goofiest Cover You've Never Seen--The Phantom Zone #3 (1982)

Sometimes you've just got to say...

...WHAT THE FRAK?!?!?!?

I guess that's what happens when you let the Howard The Duck team do a pre-Crisis DC series.

Somehow, this never became one of those "iconic" covers that everyone does homages to...

Of course, all of the covers of this mini-series were pretty goofy:

And of course, this next should have taken the place of Crisis #7 in our collective imaginations...

Gerber, Colan, Phantom Zone tomfoolery...I guess I'd better go Quarter Bin searching soon...

Phantom Zone #1-4 are from 1982

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Ghost Comics #1 (1951)

 Cover by Maurice Whitman