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41. THE BLACK TERROR. His costume is pretty neat

42. PLASTIC MAN (DC). What a fun tangle

43. JON SABLE, FREELANCE. Love the costume too

44. Henry, who looks more like a real boy than a distorted animated puppet

45. GREEN LANTERN (GA). At least only the villain looks weird. SA GL looks... looks... I can't even say it.

46. SPIDEY. Thar she blows!

47. HAWKMAN (1980s). Love the pose.

48. AVENGERS. Also love the poses.

45. Green Lantern (GA); Scott and Dickles fight the literally growing threat of beards! Keep America Clean-shaven! things decline rapidy as Hal Jordan is using blusher and has a face more like his evil Earth-3 Counterpart Power Ring.

46. Amazing Spidey: The Enforcers: So merciless even the backgronds are too afraid to show up. Very few points and some iffy lettering too. But it would seem that the Short Circus are a thing. A thing I'm not caring for. That+all magic issue gets even fewer points. Merlin's bought a new robe for the occasion which was nice.

47. Hawkman (1980s) The 60's version is over egging lots of things. In trying to capture the story, it shows too much dialogue. In showing how threatening the villains are, it gives them weapons that are too sci-fi. In trying to capture the essence of acronym based secret agencies, it comes up with a silly bird one for Hawkman. Superman gets more royalties if he appears in full light on covers, so they went with the budget silhouette instead. Shadow War was really tedious. Despite what the cover says, no one was paying any attention.

48. Avengers Annual: Breaking up is hard to do. Unless you are in the revolving door of the Avengers roster. How did they cram so much into the annual? It must have been going so fast it was trying out the bike it was putting up for a prize on the cover. Unlike Hawkman, the panel breakdowns work when giving a lot of detail.

2. PONYTAILdance covers always win

3. chili them gays ain't studying you! Oh I see you have successfully convinced them you are a drag queen. Good work!!

4. THE REAPER! My favorite bat-villain I know nothing about except his cool look

5. OUR TROOPS! poor ginger, you has the brain crazies too? you put gun down, we go watch ThE PRIce is RIGHT k? We laugh at stoopid reporters falling off plane! ha! ha! Them stoopid! NO no,NO troops, ginger am not the enemy, he has the much confused brain. put gun down ginger!!! (kicks ginger in the nads) Him am dropped gun now!

6. i like THE MASKED MAN's hair

7. SILVERBLADE VS orange sTARROS FOR THE WIN!

8. cONFUSED BRain supergirl your am orders are to kissyface Prez, not am kill him! He's the dopest!

9. flinch because spirit look hella nelly. Drag bar's the next block over, sister.

10. The prickery of nicky prevails on trUE SECRETS!

49. OPERATION PERIL vs. CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN




50. SEA DEVILS vs. SUPER MAGICIAN




51. HOUSE OF SECRETS vs. MY GREATEST ADVENTURE




52. JOHNNY DYNAMITE vs. BOY COMICS

49. Challengers - cannot beat that mountain

50. Super Magician - action is clearer

51. House of Secrets - the way the hair flows, wow

52. Boy Comics is less meh

49. Operation Peril:
Man: Peril! Great Peril!
Woman: I don't think it is.
Man: Yes, it is! it's terrible peril!
Woman: Look, I'll just go out there and face the peril.
Man: No, it's too perilous!

While the Challs at least get leg room in their bathysphere, thanks to a larger DC cover budget, it's ruined by too many rum things going on. It should be called Unexpected Tales of Uncanny Mystery just to combine all the source material. Mechanical hands, undersea mountains, the lack of waterproof wanted posters leading to elaborate carvings. Too much. Peril just has the threat of being sued by Universal for nicking Black Lagoon characters.

50. Sea Devils: Budgets are also a problem for Blackstone. Like those '50s monster movies that used Iguanas and normal ants as giant creatures, they do the same trick with some goldfish the editor won at a fair. It's pretty well drawn though, with Blackstone have a lot of physical presence. Sea Devils nearly goes too far too. It's a Western shoot out underwater. High Noon where no one can see the sun. But the inker does some nice work with the shadowing and the faded effect for the background tips it into being a winner.

51. My Greatest Adventure: In House of Secrets, Purvis is terrified of his new condition. There's every chance he'll be the new Aqualad! Over in My Grating Adventure, the lead character has gone all Namor and seems to getting the swim of things. It wins for giving us an underwater scene, and not just a fish tank and some test tubes.

52. Boy Comics: Dynamite reports back to his soviet handlers. "I did it so I could smoke cigs on a cover too," said Johnny shortly before his execution. Over in Boy, Iron Jaw's hands are about to reveal that his suit all comes off with one motion. "It was an axe-ident," said Chopper Lad to the Comics Code Authority later that month regarding the decapitation.

53. WEIRD MYSTERY TALES vs. FANTASTIC ADVENTURES




54. FROGMAN vs. THE FROGMEN




55. THE CRUSADES vs. THE OUTSIDERS




56. NICK FURY, AGENT OF SHIELD vs. THE TROUBLE WITH GIRLS

53. Weird Mystery Tales for being .ire chilling

54. The Frogmen, better color

55. The Outsiders, normally I prefer the ones without speech balloons but i like the oosing here

56. Nick Fury for not being all distorted

53. Weird Mystery. For a well drawn cover that captures the supernatural just deserts endings of it's EC predecessors. That's the last issue of Fantastic Tales. That Dynamite Loaded statement was no fib, and the entire editorial team were arrested following its publication.

54. Frogman Comics. Debbie wanted to date the star of Frogman Comics. But he was a bit green around the gills. Actually, he was a bit green everywhere. And that croaking...

Surely Frogmen is better than Frogman you say? Sure, but not when they've been given rocket packs that dilutes that pure Frogman Flipper Action We All Crave!

55. Outsiders: What, the Crusades guy couldn't find *anything* else other than a cheap political statement to wipe his short sword with? Bah! Outsiders would win anyway because of the unusual use of the logo in the villain's speech. The solid background colour sets off both that and the People's Heroes, who have pretty drab costumes.

56. The Trouble With Girls: Ah, there's nothing that says Christmas more than your home being entered by a hooded guy with a H for Hatred scrawled across it. Girls is comfy enough in its run that it can happily put its cast on the cover baubles and know that there's a readership who will know who they are and smile. A little family of comics folk and readers, brought together in smiles at Christmas. It's sweet. But I don't hold that against it, and vote for it 'cause I think it's better drawn.

57. C.O.W.L. vs. JUST IMAGINE




58. SLEEPER vs. THE BOYS




59. ALL-STAR vs. CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT




60. 21 DOWN vs. DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL

57. C.O.W.L
58. The Boys
59. All-Star
60. Supergirl

45. GREEN LANTERN (SA). Why are Alan and Doiby fighting a chia head?

46. SPIDEY! ASM pretty dull, even with the Sistine thing. What's your point, Spider-Man?

47. HAWKMAN (SA) Again a purple starfield...loses?? Yep, that nutty SA cover is an irrestible package.

48. AVENGERS ANNUAL. Kang's got that gold-dot curtain. Immortus just has his sparkling personality. Annual gives you plenty to chew on...too bad it had to be on a tomato-red/orange background.

49. OEPRATION PERIL. The Challs don't look underwater, which annoys me!

50. SEA DEVILS. The shape of the Devils!

51. MY GREATEST ADVENTURE. That bit of pink! Plus this one, the guy has gained something. On the other, that guy is losing -- even though appx. the same has happened to both?

52. JOHNNY DYNAMITE. While Boy Comics is quite the package and sign of the times, Johnny Dynamite looks both OF its time AND modern.

53. WEIRD MYSTERY. Far better visual package, plus suspense...we don't see any attackers, they seem to be drowning THEMSELVES. Why??

54. FROGMAN. One is enough, I guess. And I don't care much for those 60s-ish painted covers.

55. OUTSIDERS. Nutty shit. In #1, Titans getting bomb dropped on them. Here, People's Heroes dropping Pravda Bomb ON YOU.

56. NICK FURY. While I like the distortion of faces in the other cover -- that's what would happen in curved ornaments -- the placement is awful.

57. C.O.W.L. Both are undercooked. This one less so.

58. SLEEPER.

59. ALL-STAR. The angle! The flyer! Those crazy decorative pillars! Bright eye candy.

60. 21 DOWN.

11. WATCHMEN but I am intrigued to see THRILLER. THRILLER was the 80s comic I BOUGHT-- SOLEY BECAUSE-- IT seemed like you were SUPPOSED TO, and if you didn't you were missing something. in truth, you would only have missed muddled and pointless comic books. looking back I am glad I bought it because I had a serious in when AMBUSH BUG miniseeries got popular!

I got a case of the THRILLERS again in the 90s, buying many terrible VERTIGO comics and IMAGE titles... soley because... fans who didn't were made to feel inferior. I know it aounds crazy and impossible but in the severely limited outlets fans had for news and communication with each other, it was a regular THING to witness ads or articles that all but screamed VERTIGO AND IMAGE ARE THE BEST COMICS EVER AND NOT READING THEM MEANS YOU ARE A STUPID UNFUCKABLE BABY WITH A SHITTY DIAPER, so go read some HarVEY TITLES, YOU STUPID ASSHOLE, THEN KILL YOURSELF, this comic shop doesn't want or need your money and you should die.
I embellish slightly but I'm not wrong either.

Nowadays, i read and love what I like and everyone else can suck it, and reading bullshit i hated never got me a cute comics-loving boyfriend anyway. abut yeah, I hoped it would it my young days. Young people are stupid. Young Lash was anywaY!

12. AFLIGHT for sure, that mug is begging to be punched on THE BOYS

13. half of SILVER STREAK cover copy is not legible for me, but whatevdr it my sayI doubt it could top the multiple level unintentional hilarity of SMASH!

14. NIGHT FORCE was pretty much unreadable but Colon is worlds Above on his worst day, than whatever shitty artist that IMAGE OFFSPRING HIRED TO DO THAT likely-also-unreadable wannabe VERTIGO nonsense next to it, fuck that shit. Gene colon good, wildstorm BAD, nerds !!

15. fINDER?? more like ILLUMINATI COMICS, amirite? that evil shit can fuck off! sip ftw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10S OSCARS FOR MATCHUPS 1-14

FaVORITE MATCHUP FOR TITLES I'VE NEVER HEARD OF

DARK WOLF/THE MASKED MAN

GAYEST MATCHUP

FLINCH VS THE SPIRIT, IF I'D KNOWN THE SPIRIT WAS SO GAY I MIGHT HAVE READ SOME OF HIS COMICS.

BEST ACTRESS

WANDA, Nicky you dumb fuck. SHE WAS FAKING IT.

how else do you hink the comic finally went monthly?

16. I mean, lol. BEST COVER MATCHUP WITH MOST DISPARATE ARTISTS. LOLOZ!! here's 25 cents, Vinnie Colletta, have a Shasta on me, but to think you gonna get my vote over DR STRANGE by Gil kane? nOOOOOOOOOOOPE.Sorry, fella.


Dazzler, the first and worst x-MEN spinoff. Started off with cool enough stories and art but went downhill fast. I will grant the Bill S-whatefuckever covers laetr on th book are great but MARVEL tried to hide a lot of baaad comics in the 80s with stellar covers......

And once VINNIE Colletta was put on your comic, you knew officially the company NO LONGER GAVE A FUCK.... (NLGAF)