Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #80 January, 1968 Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Neal Adams.
"Lois Lane, tired of her fruitless quest to marry Superman, leaves Metropolis and the Daily Planet. Under the name "Lois Lorne", she finds a job as a nurse at a hospital near a U.S. rocket site, and finds new romance with an astronaut—Commander Rand Kirby."
That's a great cover. I love that the ripped cover is showing us an interior panel of the book. Very cool.
Another archer and another Quality hero, The Spider appeared in the “Alias the Spider” feature in the first 30 issues of Crack Comics. Like The Marksman, he was never featured on a cover except as a floating head. GCD has this cover for Crack Comics #20 (Jan. 1942) tentatively attributed to Gill Fox, but I'm pretty sure it’s not Fox. Judging by the way the hands are drawn and Black Condor's face, it looks to me like Lou Fine. The inking isn't his usual style, but the figures certainly look like him.
Geoff Johns later retconned The Spider as a substitute for Green Arrow in the Seven Soldiers of Victory. But this version of The Spider was actually a villain in hero’s clothing who betrayed the team.
I think that was Grant Morrison who did that?
Morrison used the same idea, but he created a new character, Thomas Ludlow Dalt (the original was Tom Hallaway), using the Spider identity—though he spelled it “Spyder.” Johns’ story came first. And James Robinson took Johns’ idea and followed through using the son of the retconned original Spider in Starman, also before Morrison’s Seven Soldiers mini.
I wonder what other covers may have preceded these that featured the book's logo destruction?
Seems like something Mad Magazine would have done.
I'd have to think about it some more, but off the top of my head, there's Carmine Infantino’s cover (inked by Murphy Anderson) to Batman #194 (Aug. 1967).
I "remember" when Jenette Kahn mentioned it in the back pages of 'Ragman' #5 from 1977. By "remember" of course I mean from when I read the back issue as I wasn't born yet.
Captain America #173 May 1974 Cover by John Romita (layout), Gil Kane (pencils), Frank Giacoia (ink) Steve Englehart script, pencils by Sal Buscema and inks by Vince Colletta.
Besides Capt and the Falcon, this book includes the original X-Men, Magneto, Nick Fury, Dum Dum Dugan, S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor, and Iron Man. This book isn't the most valuable one in my collection, but it was one of the first comic books I remember owning and I still treasure it. My copy (like the image above) has a 25 price as this issue was the first in the series to sell for 25 cents.
There are also issues with the original 20 cent price and variant issues with the Mark Jeweler insert.
I’m sorry, I haven’t had chance to check every page of this enjoyable thread so I have no idea whether you’ve already mentioned the one and only Plastic Man. If you have, I apologise in advance, and can only hope that I can maybe introduce you to some covers you may not have seen before. Created by Jack Cole, Plastic Man made his first appearance in Police Comics #1 (an imprint of Quality Comics) in August 1941. Cole, who wrote and drew nearly all of the early Plastic Man adventures, originally wanted to call his hero India Rubber Man. Quality Comics editor “Busy” Arnold suggested instead that they take advantage of the public’s recent fascination with plastic, which had just been dubbed the “miracle material”. During the late 30’s there were dozens of new household items made from plastic. Now there was a superhero as well. Plastic Man earned his own title in Summer 1943 and the title ran till February 1955. During this time Cole produced some amazing and brilliantly constructed covers, such as the one below.
I’m sorry, I haven’t had chance to check every page of this enjoyable thread so I have no idea whether you’ve already mentioned the one and only Plastic Man. If you have, I apologise in advance, and can only hope that I can maybe introduce you to some covers you may not have seen before. Created by Jack Cole, Plastic Man made his first appearance in Police Comics #1 (an imprint of Quality Comics) in August 1941. Cole, who wrote and drew nearly all of the early Plastic Man adventures, originally wanted to call his hero India Rubber Man. Quality Comics editor “Busy” Arnold suggested instead that they take advantage of the public’s recent fascination with plastic, which had just been dubbed the “miracle material”. During the late 30’s there were dozens of new household items made from plastic. Now there was a superhero as well. Plastic Man earned his own title in Summer 1943 and the title ran till February 1955. During this time Cole produced some amazing and brilliantly constructed covers, such as the one below.
I did a quick search, and while some Jack Cole covers have been posted on this thread, I didn't see any Plastic Man covers. Which is weird, because Cole’s Plastic Man is one of my favorite Golden Age features. When my son was young, I would read him the Plastic Man Archives at bedtime, and he loved them.
By the way, the inks for this cover were by Sam Burlockoff. Once Plastic Man's solo title was launched, Cole couldn’t do every story himself, so Alex Kotzky and Jack Spranger (among others) were brought in to draw stories, and Manly Wade Wellman (and later William Woolfolk) was doing a lot of the writing. Cole didn’t draw any of the stories in this issue. In fact, this cover (Jan. 1952) was one of Cole’s last few comic book covers. He left comics six or seven months later.
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I wonder what other covers may have preceded these that featured the book's logo destruction? I am digging that dress too.
I have a goal for HeroesCon. I must own a copy of Lois Lane #80.
I only remember seeing it in house ads.
From the classic storyline:
May 1974
Cover by John Romita (layout), Gil Kane (pencils), Frank Giacoia (ink)
Steve Englehart script, pencils by Sal Buscema and inks by Vince Colletta.
Besides Capt and the Falcon, this book includes the original X-Men, Magneto, Nick Fury, Dum Dum Dugan, S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor, and Iron Man. This book isn't the most valuable one in my collection, but it was one of the first comic books I remember owning and I still treasure it. My copy (like the image above) has a 25 price as this issue was the first in the series to sell for 25 cents.
There are also issues with the original 20 cent price and variant issues with the Mark Jeweler insert.
By the way, the inks for this cover were by Sam Burlockoff. Once Plastic Man's solo title was launched, Cole couldn’t do every story himself, so Alex Kotzky and Jack Spranger (among others) were brought in to draw stories, and Manly Wade Wellman (and later William Woolfolk) was doing a lot of the writing. Cole didn’t draw any of the stories in this issue. In fact, this cover (Jan. 1952) was one of Cole’s last few comic book covers. He left comics six or seven months later.
And really cool the way the question marks are screened out of the yellow background.