Well with the AVENGERS movie on the horizon, I thought a nice posting would be on (come’on you can guess) my favorite AVENGERS comic book covers. And plus it’s a nice look at how typography and art styles change over time.
What typically defines a great cover for me is, is it something I would pay to have as a poster. Surprisingly enough, most covers fail this criteria.
Take a gander at the ones that don’t 🙂 :
AVENGERS 20- While you can make an argument for a lot of the early issues because of nostalgia, this one I think stands out, primarily because of Jack Kirby’s great use of perspective to make for an exciting cover.
AVENGERS 44- This is the next standout issue, by big John Buscema.
AVENGERS 63- Excellent Gene Colan Cover!
Avengers 66- Beautiful John Buscema cover. Dig that crazy perspective. 🙂
AVENGERS 92- I used to own this issue. Early cover art by Neal Adams.
AVENGERS 96- Another great Neal Adams cover.
AVENGERS 99- Another great cover, mixing excellent typography with the artwork of Big John Buscema.
AVENGERS 107- Great Rich Buckler cover.
AVENGERS 110- And cometh Gil Kane. A series known for its great covers and artists, and here was Gil Kane blowing them all out of the water. Decades later and it still remains one of the great covers of all time.
AVENGERS 113- The art isn’t the greatest here, but the typography and storytelling of the scene makes this an attractive and attention getting cover by Rich Buckler and Joe Sinnott.
More omnibuses are not available as of yet, so if you want to get issues 31 to 113, outside of buying individual issues (prohibitively expensive for most of us) the two ways to get the issues are:
I. MASTERWORKS- Masterworks are highquality hardcover (and lately sc) books that collect on average 6 issues on quality, glossy paper. So can be a bit pricey trying to get a lot of issues in that format, so it’s best for just getting specific must have issues.
Such as these:
II. DIGITAL COMICS
Well that’s all for this installment. Come back next time as we tackle the years from 1973 to 1983!
Heroic Times 
I don’t think there’s a bad cover in the bunch! I love this time period for The Avengers too..things were still new!
I completely agree Allen! give me these great Bronze and Silver Age covers anyday.
Though I will say, there are a couple modern day comic that are waking up, and pulling from the glory days of the bronze age for their cover design. I’m thinking of the recent DETECTIVE COMICS covers. Some of the recent ones are really knocking it out of the park.
At $4 cover price, I am not going to pick them up new ($2.99 generally speaking is the most I will pay for a new marvel or DC comic book), but when they hit the secondary market I will definitely be picking them up for a dollar or two.
I’ll do a post later today or tomorrow and you’ll see the books I am talking about.
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