Comments on: Top Five Avengers Covers

By: RichYan33

RichYan33 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:35:28 +0000

All right. Any list with anything from Jae Lee on it is suspect. It looks like Cap is recreating the stereo scene from “Say Anything” and everyone else is getting ready to puke from his BO.

“In your eyes…”

By: GoliathII

GoliathII — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:33:49 +0000

Avengers 100, 150, 200 Also 49, where Magneto is pulling puppet strings on Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

By: Mike Blake

Mike Blake — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:22:53 +0000

> Avengers #96 with the Vision beating some guy senseless is a great cover,
> as is Avengers #92 with Cap, Thor, & Iron Man telling the others â€˜You gots to go!â€™.

I’d give those a thumbs-up, but my nominations would include the one before the Vision cover, “Death Be Not Proud!” (#56) http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22166&zoom=4 , and from the Marvel 25th anniversary series of portrait covers, # 273.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=42056&zoom=4

By: dhole

dhole — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:26:10 +0000

I agree that Perez needs some representation and ish 181 would get my vote. The first of many “cram lots of characters on the cover” covers for Perez, but still a great one that you can stare at for a good long while. Certainly grabbed my eye and lured me to the comics rack when I was a kid.

By: Vincent Paul Bartilucci

Vincent Paul Bartilucci — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:23:21 +0000

I’ve always had a soft spot for the cover to Avengers #122.

By: Rob M

Rob M — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:14:02 +0000

Re: Avengers #57 homages: Besides the WCA one that wwk5d mentioned (WCA #45) and the recent New Avengers Secret Invasion cover, the only other one I could find was this obscure one: Cyberspace 3000 #6 by Currie and Riggs http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=272513&zoom=4 .

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:42:47 +0000

I don’t know if West Coast Avengers is the best example…when the Vision was re-introduced in his all white version, the cover Byrne did was an homage. Forgot which issue #, tho.

By: salamurai

salamurai — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:51:12 +0000

“â€œItem #2, â€œBehold the Visionâ€ is one of the dullest, most boring covers of anything anywhere. And it has terrible coloring.â€

However, it is one of the most homaged covers in superhero comic book history.”

I can’t think of a single time I’ve seen an homage to that cover, and I’ve been reading comics for 25 years.
Can someone point me at some examples?

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:38:34 +0000

I agree with Evan: http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/fnf/avengers239.jpg
The Letterman cover!

I mean 223 and 187 I’ve never even seen before.

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:35:38 +0000

I’d put the Letterman cover as an honorable mention. Lettermen, surrounded by a bunch of B-listers? Classic. And I do enjoy # 3…so wacky, it’s memorable.

And I also loved Annual # 10…love those type of covers (“See Captain American Defeated! Witness the Return of an Old Friend! All This, and a Cameo Appearence by the X-men! etc”).

By: buttler

buttler — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:34:48 +0000

The funny thing is, that Vision cover is itself an homage to the splash page of the first appearance of the Golden Age Vision in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (1940).

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:17:30 +0000

The Letterman cover didn’t make the cut?

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:16:46 +0000

Another thing that I always disliked about that era is the fact that in the logo they took the “the” out of the arrow in the “A” and moved it into that little oval. What the hell was the point of that? It looked about ten times cooler the other way, is there honestly anyone who prefers it? Why was this done, who decided it was necessary and what the hell were they thinking? Did some twit actually think that the “the” in the “A” was somehow “confusing” to readers or some such ridiculous idea?

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:45:57 +0000

Really not a fan of #3. I generally detest white backgrounds, especially in or on 80s Marvel comics.
I’d nominate 59, 66, 71, 74, 181 and any classic 70s cover with floating heads looking in shock at a scene that is highly deceptive about the issue’s contents.

By: Scott MacIver

Scott MacIver — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:07:47 +0000

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/avengers/221-12.jpg

Is my vote for inclusion.

By: res196e7

res196e7 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:52:25 +0000

“Item #2, â€œBehold the Visionâ€ is one of the dullest, most boring covers of anything anywhere. And it has terrible coloring.”

However, it is one of the most homaged covers in superhero comic book history.

The cover to #223 is somewhat cool, but it should definitely have been replaced by a Perez cover, probably #181.

By: danjack

danjack — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:32:29 +0000

Avengers #96 with the Vision beating some guy senseless is a great cover, as is Avengers #92 with Cap, Thor, & Iron Man telling the others ‘You gots to go!’.
Avengers #217 where Yellowjacket is in the headlights of the quinjet with the Cap, Thor, Iron Man, and the Wasp advancing on him is a great cover communicating how screwed up his situation was that his closest friends and his wife were going to take him down. Speaking of Pym, ‘Yellowjacket No More’ was a great dramatic cover that really made me want to pick up the book.
Also, from when Busiek/Perez were doing the book, Avengers #19 with the image of Ultron was really good.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:09:45 +0000

An all-time best Avengers cover list that does not have a cover by George Perez?

I would have put #161 in there somewhere.

While #16 is an important issue, I would have used #19 or #23 for the second Kirby cover.

By: Tungsten Man

Tungsten Man — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:41:29 +0000

It’s not really in the running, of course, but the cover of New Avengers #7 got me to buy a superhero comic for the first time in my adult life. Not just because of the layout, the all-star lineup, and the presence of a new superhero that the comic promised to (somewhat) explain, but because Spider-Woman was front and center.

My entire knowledge of Spider-Woman came from a short piece I read as kid about how Marvel supposedly created her to lock up rights before someone tried to rip off Spider-Man. Whatever the motives for putting her in front of not only her male counterpart but Cap, Iron Man, and Wolverine, her sudden prominence intrigued me enough to start reading New Avengers, then more Marvel, and finally DC for the first time. And, y’know, as far as explaining her starring role, Bendis didn’t disappoint.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:39:22 +0000

What about the “lineup shuffle” issue (the exact number escapes me) with the “Who Will Be the Next Avenger?” tag-line that had a bunch of random characters in boxes, like Iron Fist, Spider-Man, Dazzler, and the Invisible Woman (but a blank box where her picture would be!)?

Or any of the JLA/Avengers covers.