I think in a way this worked out, he was certainly an artist of a time, and he shone with that early 70s style. Ploog left comics in the very early 80s I believe moving on to work Hollywood storyboards etc. The splash of the week comes from Marvel Spotlight #5 featuring the first appearance of Ghost Rider, it’s drawn by the great Mike Ploog. If I want a good price for this lot I think I’ll have to put issue #199 on top. There was a nice stack of Archie Digests that I’ll bundle together into a lot. Here are a few tidbits I found in the “ to eBay auction” pile. Like all art comic book covers are subjective and their greatness is in the eye of the beholder, I recently talked to a guy who thinks the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #50 is meh, in many ways he’s right but I and much of the collecting community thinks he’s wrong.Ĭhris Owen and I are working on a new cover project that we hope to have launched this spring stay tuned here for updates. Great covers aren’t just some battle covers, they can be subtle and elegant, they can be simple yet powerful, they can be a sight gag that really works, an innuendo that everyone loves, a colour scheme that you can’t resist or something you just can’t put your finger on. You ever notice most of the great battle covers come from eras with relatively narrow date ranges? I hope you’ll prove me wrong but show me some great battle covers from the late 1950s into the mid-1960s, there’s a decade there filled with meh at best. Again though, what makes them great? Obviously, it’s not one thing, it’s different things but it could also be the same things in different eras. Great covers are actually scarce things when taken as a percentage of all covers. I’ve been trying to figure out, in some measurable way, what makes a comic book cover work, what makes it sought after as a collectible.Īs most cover connoisseurs know too many comic covers fall into the “yawn to meh” category with some even falling below this and into the “why?” realm. I’ve been thinking a lot about comic book covers lately.
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