Oh, Superman.
We’ve said it before – and another blog, Superdickery, specialized in this – but Superman is a dick.
Here’s the cover of “Jimmy Olsen” 30, which came out in August 1958. Cover art by the great Curt Swan and Stan Kaye.
In this issue, Superman adopts the cub reporter but is inexplicably mean to him, culminating in the cover scene.
Jimmy sad.
But it all works out.
Those were the days, weren’t they?
80 pages of comic book action for 25 cents.
Even though the “giants” were mostly reprints – many from the Golden Age or early Silver Age – they were many times over our money’s worth.
Behold, a beautiful cover.
From time to time here, I’ll note some of my favorite comic books covers. They’re not necessarily the covers of milestone comic books. They’re just covers that I loved.
By default, most of the covers will be from the 1960s and 1970s, when I was actively buying, reading and collecting comics. They had their maximum impact on me back then.
I’ll start off with this one, Avengers 57, from the Marvel comic of my favorite superhero group, introducing one of my favorite characters, Vision (or the Vision, to some). The cover date was October 1968.
The android creation of homicidal robot Ultron, Vision was sent to kill the Avengers but, maybe improbably, became part of the team.
To this day, the cover by John Buscema sets the standard for comic book covers. Striking composition? Yes. Heroes in peril? Yes. Mysterious and undeniably important new character causing chaos? Yes.
I couldn’t spend my 12 cents fast enough for this one.
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