Category: Cool Comic Covers

  • Mary Marvel #5 (Cool Comic Covers #23)

    Mary Marvel #5 (Cool Comic Covers #23)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week, after last week’s romantic diversion, we take a look at a cover that is a little less bogged down by controversy and is just plain COOL .…

  • Superman and Wonder Woman Sitting in a Tree (Cool Comic Covers #22)

    Superman and Wonder Woman Sitting in a Tree (Cool Comic Covers #22)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week, with all the hoopla about Superman kissing Wonder Woman, I was reminded of a cover image I saw when I was just a young man . .…

  • Adventure Comics #425 (Cool Comic Covers #21)

    Adventure Comics #425 (Cool Comic Covers #21)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week, a bad day scenario if I’ve ever seen one . . . I hate it when this happens. You know the situation. You’re climbing up a mountain…

  • Star Wars #52 (Cool Comic Covers #20)

    Star Wars #52 (Cool Comic Covers #20)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week, a striking Star Wars comic . . . The coolest thing about this comic, when I was a kid, was not the cover. No, the coolest thing…

  • Tales of Asgard (Cool Comic Covers #19)

    Tales of Asgard (Cool Comic Covers #19)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week, Tales of Asgard, a reprinting of some lost-ish Thor stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby! But the covers were not by Jack Kirby. Originally, these were…

  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind vol. 6 (Cool Comic Covers #18)

    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind vol. 6 (Cool Comic Covers #18)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week we take a turn away from American comics and look at the cover to a manga series: I love Hayao Miyazaki. Almost anything he does becomes a…

  • The Brave and the Bold #14 (Cool Comic Covers #16)

    The Brave and the Bold #14 (Cool Comic Covers #16)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: A really cool blast from the past! The Brave and the Bold is best known as a Batman spotlight or a team-up book. But, it started out…

  • Star Trek (DC Comics) #25 and Top Dog #9 (Cool Comic Covers #13)

    Star Trek (DC Comics) #25 and Top Dog #9 (Cool Comic Covers #13)

    It’s Friday! That means another Cool Comic Covers, a weekly (sometimes more!) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: Our cool comic covers come not from the artwork, but from something more personal. Be warned — things from antiquity, like bookstores and magazine racks, are mentioned…