Favorite Cliche Comic Cover

[Wee67]

I started thinking about this when I saw this month's Avengers cover. Its the classic villian-standing-over-the-sprawled-hero-bodies cover. I thought about how many comics I've seen with this type of shot, but my favorite is probably the team vs team shot. You know the one where each side of the cover has one team rushing towards the other. Like Avengers #141-


What is your favorite? Not specifically (like Avengers 141), but what cliche- the hero in a gun sight, unconscious hero with the floating heads looking down, the gravestone with the hero's name (particularly popular with Batman).

[thunderbolt]

John Byrne's redone the FF #1 cover morethan a few times.

[Wee67]

double post

[The Toyroom]

How 'bout the one where a hero is holding a dead hero while other heroes look on....This one's been done to death (pun intended)....You know, ala Crisis #7 or X-Men #136:

[thunderbolt]

The Xmen was the first, so its the winner. Did Perez even credit Byrne?

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

Justice League Internation #1 with all the characters looking up angrily.

[The Bat]

The Xmen was the first, so its the winner.

Agreed!

[The Toyroom]

The Xmen was the first, so its the winner. Did Perez even credit Byrne?

Actually it's not....I think there were other similar covers before X-Men #136...I think I have a Wizard magazine 2-page spread where they showed them all...I'll have to dig it out....

[johnnystorm]

Gorillas are the all-time top comic cover theme!

[The Toyroom]

Wasn't it Julius Schwartz that always said comics sold better with gorillas on the cover?
(also Fire, Heroes Crying, Questions and the color Purple)

[kingdom warrior]

How 'bout the one where a hero is holding a dead hero while other heroes look on....This one's been done to death (pun intended)....You know, ala Crisis #7 or X-Men #136:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/09/crisis8.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/un...men/136-14.jpg

Oh yeah the mother of all lifted covers.. but i can't find the original silver age comic that the idea is lifted from

I know Batman 156 does the cover and Thor 127 also has the same cover but i remember the original source I think had a spaceman on the cover.....

[saildog]

Actually it's not....I think there were other similar covers before X-Men #136...I think I have a Wizard magazine 2-page spread where they showed them all...I'll have to dig it out....

Don't know if it was the first, but off the top of my head I remember JLA #91 from 1971.



Edited to add: I could think of some earlier covers...Supes holding a "dead" Lois Lane, Batman holding a "dead" Robin, but as the criteria includes "while other heroes look on", this is the earliest I could think of and I think it was several years before Uncanny X-Men #136.

[saildog]

Oh yeah the mother of all lifted covers.. but i can't find the original silver age comic that the idea is lifted from

I know Batman 156 does the cover and Thor 127 also has the same cover but i remember the original source I think had a spaceman on the cover.....

Space Adventures #24

Space Adventures #24 - Moon-Run!; Out of This World; World’s End; My Moon (comic book issue) - Comic Vine

[kingdom warrior]

Space Adventures #24

Space Adventures #24 - Moon-Run!; Out of This World; World’s End; My Moon (comic book issue) - Comic Vine

Awesome!!!! Thanks! I was going Crazy....I couldn't remember for the life of me the comic...

[saildog]

Awesome!!!! Thanks! I was going Crazy....I couldn't remember for the life of me the comic...

To be honest, I never would have thought of that cover until you mentioned it and I wouldn't have even known about it except I was on a Ditko research kick a few months ago.