Here's the next four covers! And click here for the master list of all the covers posted so far!

13 Comments

• At November 7, 2009, Wesley Brown wrote:

  These are all iconic. I've seen that Flash poster in almost every comic store I've ever been in.

  Keep up the ...

• At November 7, 2009, Adam wrote:

  Don't know (I'm just not a Sandman guy.), yes, kinda-but-I-think-the-Starro-one-takes-it, and yes.

• At November 7, 2009, Dan K wrote:

  2 and 4 definately. 1 and 3 not so much.

• At November 7, 2009, Kurt Onstad wrote:

  Even as a big Sandman fan, I have to say: the issue, iconic. The cover, not so much...

• At November 7, 2009, Dave wrote:

  I actually have 2. I'm going with #4, though

• At November 7, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  I'd go with covers 1 and 4.

  Absolutely gorgeous cover of Death on the Sandman by Dave McKean.

  You can't almost beat ...

• At November 7, 2009, Eric wrote:

  I don't think that Sandman cover is even the most iconic cover of DC's Death.

• At November 7, 2009, Greg Geren wrote:

  Gotta pick the Flash or Justice League. The Killing Joke cover is a great cover, but not what I ...

• At November 7, 2009, Namor wrote:

  Number 4, definitely.

• At November 7, 2009, Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! wrote:

  Sandman to me doesn't really have iconic covers, just an iconic sense of cover design with no particular ones standing ...

• At November 7, 2009, Mike Blake wrote:

  That's not the Starro cover (that story was in The Brave and the Bold#28), but the Appellax meteors story, the ...

• At November 7, 2009, chad wrote:

  hard choice even though ever time i see the killing joke it reminds me how evil the joker truely ...

• At November 8, 2009, NInjazilla wrote:

  4 is a top ten cover

We're almost done with New Frontier moments! There are still a few more to come, but this one might be the most famous moment from the whole series...

Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier #6 opens with a bunch of heroes being collected for the great fight against the evil monstrous villain the heroes now all face...

We get a very cool introduction to Adam Strange and Ray Palmer...

Then we see the pair introduced to the other famous DC scientists...

Leading to their plan - a bunch of warplanes will attack The Centre to distract it. Then a few bombers are going to sneak in close to drop a couple of nukes on the alien, hopefully leaving it so distracted that it will not be able to stop the Flash from surrounding it with Ray Palmer's shrinking device...

Now we get the preparation for the battle, and Hal Jordan shows up!

Finally, THE moment - the "slow walk" (click to enlarge)...

Sooooo awesome.

14 Comments

• At November 7, 2009, Dan Fleming wrote:

  I can hear the music swelling!

• At November 7, 2009, Manglr wrote:

  I dunno, I'm rather fond of the Eureka moment with dueling pipes.

• At November 7, 2009, chad wrote:

  got to go with the walk the gathering of heroes ready to go into battle do or die. darwyn showing ...

• At November 7, 2009, FlashJ wrote:

  Adam Strange being in Arkham is so freaking brillant

• At November 7, 2009, Monica Dickey wrote:

  @FlashJ

  Agreed!

• At November 7, 2009, cmh wrote:

  Looks like Arkham Asylam is okay with subscribing to Scientific American for at least one of their patients...

  I think Brian ...

• At November 7, 2009, Jim Kakalios wrote:

  I second Mangir - I love the pipes jaunting up at an elevated angle as Doc Magnus and Prof from ...

• At November 7, 2009, Jim Kakalios wrote:

  cmh - I think that the Dr. at Arkham subscribed to Scientific American, and as Adam Strange was definitely one ...

• At November 7, 2009, Michael wrote:

  The Walk is great, but I also liked Hal's line, "Let's cook that son of a bitch."

• At November 7, 2009, Dean wrote:

  A joke followed by a massive "f*** yeah!" moment in a DC comic released after 2000? Amazing.

• At November 7, 2009, FlashJ wrote:

  Jim,

  I know this was somewhat alluded to in 52, as once Strange returns to Rann, the city is under attack ...

• At November 7, 2009, Jim Kakalios wrote:

  FlashJ:

  You know, for Rann being this advanced civilization and all - first they screw up the Zeta ray, wherein what ...

• At November 7, 2009, Mike M wrote:

  Y'know, this really reminds me of that Warren Ellis Authority storyline, from the end of his run. That "house ...

• At November 7, 2009, kanak wrote:

  umm everything is fine but where is GOD-d-a-m-n-BATMAN?

Back to the moments from Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier!!

Okay, the gist of this scene (which closes out the penultimate issue of New Frontier) is that some big bad guy is wreaking havoc on the DC Universe and at the same time, all the heroes are arguing amongst themselves. Superman decides that it is time for him to inspire people (note that the captions are from the Martian Manhunter, who has telepathic powers)...

What a set-up for the last issue!!!

9 Comments

• At November 7, 2009, Crash-Man wrote:

  Yeah, I'm sort of annoyed I watched that animated movie before I read the series now...

• At November 7, 2009, The Crazed Spruce wrote:

  Yeah, so am I. It was a great moment in the movie, but would've played out SO much better ...

• At November 7, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  DAAAAAAMMMMNNNNN, that Super-guy sure got his butt kicked.

• At November 7, 2009, The Librarian wrote:

  The only sad thing here is that after watching so many episodes of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, Superman ...

• At November 7, 2009, Roman wrote:

  The Slow Walk tomorrow?

• At November 7, 2009, chad wrote:

  i would go with that moment for the shock looks on the other heroes faces over relizing they are ...

• At November 7, 2009, Anonymous wrote:

  Speaking of shock. There's the following scene where Lois Lane loses her composure while trying the report on the ...

• At November 7, 2009, chill bill wrote:

  Having never read this I can not help but wonder, why is Nick Fury on the scene.

• At November 8, 2009, Rob Schmidt wrote:

  The moment seemed artificial to me. I.e., a gimmick and a transparent one at that. Get Superman out ...

Here's the next four covers! And click here for the master list of all the covers posted so far!

32 Comments

• At November 6, 2009, Josh wrote:

  I sense a theme ...

  Today's selections are all important comics, but I'm doubtful they're all "Iconic Covers".

• At November 6, 2009, Thok wrote:

  Ooh, the first appearance of The Whip and Cliff Cornwall. :P

• At November 6, 2009, Adam wrote:

  Red, red, green, and red & green. It's an early Christmas theme!

• At November 6, 2009, chad wrote:

  got to go with the flash of two words cover for it showed that there is a mutiple universe in ...

• At November 6, 2009, Craig B. wrote:

  All extremely key, extremely iconic. Good choices, all.

• At November 6, 2009, Jeff R. wrote:

  I suspect that the 15 covers that don't make the final cut will be heavily "character debut" covers...

• At November 6, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  Too bad I'm not a fan of the Flash or Green Lantern (either Golden, Silver, or Modern age).

  Anything from the ...

• At November 6, 2009, danjack wrote:

  @Josh,

  If nothing else, the Flash 123 cover is iconic.

  i personally think all of these have become very iconic. could ...

• At November 6, 2009, Iconic My Butt wrote:

  What in Kirby's name is "iconic" about the All-American cover?

  Here's a hero who can fly, plus he's invulnerable to ...

• At November 6, 2009, Ed Buskirk wrote:

  I'd like to know what Iconic My Butt thinks "iconic" means. I'm guessing it means any cover HE likes.

• At November 6, 2009, Rebis wrote:

  Wow, some haters are popping up. Maybe you wanna define "iconic" for the masses, Brian? (Not to appease Mr. Iconic ...

• At November 6, 2009, Rebis wrote:

  In fact, here's a nice rundown about its importance:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Two_Worlds

• At November 6, 2009, Jeff R. wrote:

  IMB: Note that this column is presenting 90 candidates for the top 75 Most Iconic covers. In the ...

• At November 6, 2009, Adam wrote:

  i?con?ic ??

  /a??k?n?k/ –adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an icon.

  2. Art. (of statues, portraits, etc.) executed according to a ...

• At November 6, 2009, Monica Dickey wrote:

  I like original Green Lantern's blouse haha. I'd forgotten about that!

  Really love these updates. Older comic art is so fun!

• At November 6, 2009, Iconic My Butt wrote:

  Came back to apologize for the bad attitude in my prevous post. Blame it on an empty stomach. Had dinner ...

• At November 6, 2009, brian wrote:

  I'd have thought Flash #92 more iconic (Black Canary through the paper circle). Got copied a lot over the ...

• At November 6, 2009, Les Fontenelle wrote:

  I have to agree - just being the cover of an important character's debut does not make a cover iconic, ...

• At November 6, 2009, Adam wrote:

  Of course, Brian is putting this to a VOTE for us, so that's your opportunity to NOT VOTE for All-American ...

• At November 6, 2009, Mike Blake wrote:

  I'll vote for FLASH #123.

  Geez, I remember a previous poll where Brian excluded first appearance covers and some complained. Now ...

• At November 6, 2009, david wrote:

  I don't see any solo covers for the following Silver Age JLA members yet:

  [Male]

  Aquaman.

  Enlongated Man.

  Firestorm.

  Green Arrow I.

  Hawkman.

  Martian Manhunter.

  Red Tornado.

  [Female]

  Black Canary ...

• At November 6, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  A lot of those characters don't HAVE iconic solo covers, David.

  But some of them do, and you'll see them in ...

• At November 6, 2009, mrjayberry wrote:

  I'm finding, as a Marvel, fan, Iconic DC covers are eaiser for me to pick. I just have to ask ...

• At November 7, 2009, Biggles wrote:

  Mrjayberry my idea of Iconic is along the same lines as you. I AM a life long DC fan and ...

• At November 7, 2009, Jason wrote:

  Two most overused words in popular culture reporting: homage and iconic.

• At November 7, 2009, Ed Buskirk wrote:

  Adam said:

  i?con?ic ??

  /a??k?n?k/ –adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an icon.

  2. Art. (of statues, portraits, etc.) executed according to ...

• At November 7, 2009, Rob Schmidt wrote:

  Except for the first cover, not that iconic. There's no chance covers #2-4 will be in the top 10.

  I'm ...

• At November 7, 2009, Rene wrote:

  If by iconic we mean the cover that springs to mind when you think of the character or concept, then ...

• At November 7, 2009, sgt rawk wrote:

  There are ten more iconic Hal Jordan covers than this one. Both Flashes were excellent choices and are definitely iconic. ...

• At November 7, 2009, Eric wrote:

  I think that there are better covers than the ones picked. But this is not the Best Covers. It is ...

• At November 7, 2009, david wrote:

  I'm not sure why this comment got posted:

  "If you stuck to Superman and Batman alone, you could find 100 covers ...

• At November 7, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Second-rate only in iconicity, David.

  They're both very good characters, though!

Welcome to the two-hundred and thirty-second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and thirty-first.

Comic Book Legends Revealed is now part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of entertainment and sports, which you can check out here, at legendsrevealed.com. I'd especially recommend you check out this installment of Movie Legends Revealed, where we learn the secret motive behind Jamie Foxx's name!

Speaking of Jamie Foxx (at least the singing part of his repertoire), this week is a special theme week! All comic legends involving MUSIC!!

Let's begin!

COMIC LEGEND: Irving Berlin sued Mad Magazine for copyright infringement.

STATUS: True

Today, the idea that one would be disallowed to do a parody of a famous song is almost absurd. And yet, at one point in time there was no clear law on the subject of parodies when it comes to songs.

Such was the state in 1961 when Mad Magazine released The Worst of Mad #4, the latest in their collection of pieces from the popular satire magazine.

They had a series of song parodies.

For simplicities sake, let's pick one song, a parody of Irving Berlin's "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody," done by Mad as "Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady."

Well, the songwriters of the world were fed up, so a group of famous songwriters got together, led by one of the most famous songwriters of all-time, Irving Berlin.

He was joined by two other legendary songwriters, Cole Porter...

and Richard Rodgers...

The case, Irving Berlin et al. v. E.C. Publications, Inc., went to District Court in New York.

Judge Irving Kaufman ruled that parody songs, especially those that only contained verbal parodies of the original song (as opposed to musical parodies, which would be a much dicier situation for years after this decision, all the way until the 1990s, really), were protected, provided that they were a limited borrowing of the original song (just enough to get the idea, really).

Of the 25 songs that were being contested (with the songwriters seeking about $1 million for each song - $1 per song per issue sold, for a total of $25 million), Kaufman ruled that 23 of them were fine, but he did hold that two of the song parodies ("Always," a parody of Berlin's "Always" and "There's No Business Like No Business," a parody of Berlin's "There's No Business Like Show Business") WERE too close to the original/contained too much of the original material.

The case was appealed to the 2nd Circuit Court in New York where Judge Charles Metzner ruled that ALL of the songs were protected.

The songwriters then appealed to the Supreme Court, who denied hearing the case, thus ending the case with a victory for Mad Magazine and parody writers everywhere!!!

Thanks to the UCLA Law and Columbia Law copyright infringment web site for the above scan and thanks to reader SanctumSanctorumComix for recommending that I feature this one (way back in January of this year).

COMIC LEGEND: Ben Orr of the Cars was related to famed letterer Tom Orzechowski

STATUS: False

The Cars were a popular New Wave band of the late 1970s and early 1980s, with hits like "Just What I Needed," "My Best Friend's Girl," "Good Times Roll," "Shake It Up," "Since You're Gone," "You Might Think" and "Drive."

The original lineup of the group was singer and guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson.

Orr sang lead on "Just What I Needed" and "Drive".

Orr tragically passed away in 2000 from pancreatic cancer.

Orr's original name was Benjamin Orzechowski, and was born in 1947.

Well, legendary comic book letterer Tom Orzechowski was born in 1953.

About three years ago, reader gorjus asked:

Are longtime Uncanny X-Men letterer Tom Orzechowski and the sadly deceased bassist/singer of the Cars, Ben Orr, related?

It sure took me a long time to resolve this one (so fear not, those who wonder if I am ignoring their suggestion, I check them all out, sometimes it just takes awhile to prove one way or the other!), but I contacted Tom the other day, and he was kind enough to send me a quick reply.

He said:

You're only the second person to ask about this!... and the first since the Cars were a new band, 30 years ago.

No, the late Benjamin Orr was not a relative, at least not close enough that our families had any knowledge of each other.

I'm also not aware of any relationship to Bob Orzechowski, who did some penciling and lettering for Gray Morrow while he was doing the Buck Rogers (I think) syndicated strip, also 30 years ago.

Orzechowski is a relatively common name, apparently. Imagine that.

Imagine that, indeed!

Well, there ya go!

Thanks to gorjus for the question, and thanks so much to Tom for the helpful and prompt reply! Very cool of him. Oh, and thanks to Lee Hester (of Lee's Comics) for the picture of Tom!

COMIC LEGEND: A musician had to change his stage name and his album cover because of DC Comics.

STATUS: True

In 2001, musician Bruce Gordon came out with a pop album called Hero and Villain in One Man.

Bruce Gordon, you say?

Say, isn't that the secret identity for the comic book character Eclipso? The villain who good guy scientist Bruce Gordon transforms to whenever there is an eclipse?!?!

Why yes, it is, and Gordon realized this as well, so he titled his album Eclipso's tagline ("Hero and Villain in One Man").

Taking it one step further, Gordon decided to TAKE the name Eclipso and even put Eclipso on the cover of the album (using art from an old issue of House of Secrets - anyone know what issue in particular?)!!

(While I'm asking, anyone have a better copy of the album cover? This one is kinda tiny).

Well, SHOCKINGLY DC didn't like this idea so much, so they sent him a cease and desist letter (it's debatable if DC would have won any sort of lawsuit, but naturally, if you're Gordon, why would you want to even push the issue?) and he quickly changed the cover of the album AND his "alter-ego," now going by Mr. Encrypto, instead.

The comic book references continued with his latest album, Secret Identity Crisis (where he does a bunch of cover songs - clever).

Feel free to check out Bruce's site here, where you can listen to tracks from each album. His cover of Ray Davies' "Dreams" is good!

Thanks to Jim Kosmicki for recommending this one back in January!!

Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is cronb01@aol.com.

As you likely know by now, at the end of April, my book finally came out!

Here is the cover by artist Mickey Duzyj. I think he did a very nice job (click to enlarge)...

If you'd like to order it, you can use the following code if you'd like to send me a bit of a referral fee...

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See you next week!

44 Comments

• At November 6, 2009, Blackjak wrote:

  Some really interesting ones this week!

  Like the name-linking one, particularly...

  I didn't realise, until we were playing "Google Yourself" in the ...

• At November 6, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  Y'know, that third bit, about Bruce Gordon changing his name because of DC Comics reminds me of certain blogger who ...

• At November 6, 2009, Ortiz wrote:

  The parodies thing was very interesting. Great work Brian.

  Peace.

• At November 6, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Y'know, that third bit, about Bruce Gordon changing his name because of DC Comics reminds me of certain blogger who ...

• At November 6, 2009, Mary Warner wrote:

  He transformed whenever their was an eclipse? That sounds like a really rare occurance; I would think it would ...

• At November 6, 2009, kevinj wrote:

  so he put the name of a character, the tagline of a character and a piece of artwork of the ...

• At November 6, 2009, Roman wrote:

  I hope he covered "Southern Man" or something on that album...Neil Young deserves more than just an album cover reference.

• At November 6, 2009, LouReedRichards wrote:

  Yeah seems pretty blatantly spitting in the face of DC comics to try and get away with the whole Eclipso ...

• At November 6, 2009, OTL wrote:

  Honestly, I don't really see how it could be debatable if DC could have won a lawsuit against Bruce Gordon; ...

• At November 6, 2009, Bill Angus wrote:

  I think that's a fairly common occurrence when it comes to bands. I vaguely remember a (Ottawa-based I think) band ...

• At November 6, 2009, kevinj wrote:

  just remembered a story i never quite found out was true or not that there was a band called Captain ...

• At November 6, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Honestly, I don't really see how it could be debatable if DC could have won a lawsuit against Bruce Gordon; ...

• At November 6, 2009, Carl wrote:

  Superhero universe eclipses don't generally follow the usual rules. See the TV show Heroes, for an example. In ...

• At November 6, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  There's too many K. Urbans in this world.

  It's easy to get them all mixed (nixed) up!

• At November 6, 2009, Mr. M wrote:

  Obviously artists and writers (or writers and artists) get the lion's share of credit when a comic book is successful ...

• At November 6, 2009, Aaron Poehler wrote:

  "Today, the idea that one would be disallowed to do a parody of a famous song is almost absurd"

  No, it's ...

• At November 6, 2009, Sijo wrote:

  Actually Eclipso changed whenever Gordon saw ANYTHING that resembled an eclipse, even a *TV picture* of one! But yeah, the ...

• At November 6, 2009, Corey wrote:

  Aaron,

  Weird Al asks for permission from the artists, but he actually doesn't have to, legally. He does it as a ...

• At November 6, 2009, Glenn Simpson wrote:

  @Aaron Poehler:

  Actually, I believe the situation is that Yankovic has decided not to do parodies unless the artist gives him ...

• At November 6, 2009, rolly wrote:

  @Adam

  Michael Jackson reportedly liked Weird Al's parodies, and saw the imitation as flattery. Since Weird Al did both ...

• At November 6, 2009, Mary Warner wrote:

  To Rolly-- Weird Al got permission for 'Eat It' and 'Fat', but was denied permission to base a song ...

• At November 6, 2009, A.J. wrote:

  "just remembered a story i never quite found out was true or not that there was a band called Captain ...

• At November 6, 2009, rolly wrote:

  @Mary Warner

  Per the Rolling Stone article, Al says Michael "wasn't so into it" (the parody of "Black or White") for ...

• At November 6, 2009, Rob Ocelot wrote:

  @KevinJ

  Captain America was Eugene Kelly's band after The Vaselines (probably only known today because of their influence on Kurt Kobain). ...

• At November 6, 2009, Iron Maiden wrote:

  Showing my age but the only Bruce Gordon I connected this with played Frank Nitti in the old TV show ...

• At November 6, 2009, Mr. M wrote:

  @Iron Maiden -

  "Showing my age but the only Bruce Gordon I connected this with played Frank Nitti in the old ...

• At November 6, 2009, I AM FeAR wrote:

  Speaking of comic-named bands/band members, there's Jamie Madrox from Twiztid, who sometimes refers to himself as the Multiple Man and ...

• At November 6, 2009, LouReedRichards wrote:

  I don't know if the Butthole surfers ever went by the name "Silver Surfers", they used lots of names before ...

• At November 6, 2009, Daniel Kravetz wrote:

  The infamous booklet of MAD's song parody lyrics was called "Sing Along With MAD" and was included as a bonus ...

• At November 6, 2009, RD Francis wrote:

  Actually, There was a difference between real and artificial "eclipses" - with a real eclipse, I believe Gordon transformed into ...

• At November 7, 2009, ykw wrote:

  So, with all these artists having to make name changes to satisfy comics-company law-things, why is DJ Green Lantern allowed ...

• At November 7, 2009, Tornado Ninja Fan wrote:

  The Eclipso art is from House of Secrets No. 80. It was the last appearance of Eclipso in the magazine.

• At November 7, 2009, Allyn Gibson wrote:

  Honestly, I don't really see how it could be debatable if DC could have won a lawsuit against Bruce Gordon; ...

• At November 7, 2009, Bill wrote:

  X-Factor as a phrase was in common usage before Marvel used it for a comic title. I don't think they'd ...

• At November 7, 2009, jccalhoun wrote:

  Here's another music related question. I'm not sure if it counts as an urban legend but it is something that ...

• At November 7, 2009, Gapalanaky wrote:

  Bill-

  That was just WRONG! I'm surprised DC hasn't sued over that. Although it may explain Sinestro's "mustache"!

• At November 7, 2009, dr kopp e. wright wrote:

  IRVING BERLIN, COLE PORTER and RICHARD ROGERS must be really MAD !!!

• At November 7, 2009, tekende wrote:

  Gapalanaky-

  Actually, even if DC ever found out about that club, I doubt they'd sue. They'd likely win if they did, ...

• At November 7, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Interesting stuff, JC, I'll see what I can find out!

• At November 7, 2009, Corey wrote:

  X-Factor might be too generic to really defend but Marvel's use (comic books) is different than the TV show's use ...

• At November 7, 2009, Kamino Neko wrote:

  It seems far more likely that Kurt Vile took his name from Kurt Weill (pronounced Vile) - which Moore himself ...

• At November 7, 2009, JackKing wrote:

  Kamino Neko is right, Moore took the pseudonym from Weill. He also used Jill de Ray which he snagged from ...

• At November 8, 2009, Daryll B wrote:

  Well I'd love for a "Bruce Gordon" to someday sue a comic company for suing their name claiming defamation...

  *gets handed ...

• At November 8, 2009, Daryll B wrote:

  whoops...suing should be using there...my bad again folks...

We're taking a quick break from New Frontier for the fifth of November with the notable introduction of a character who has an affinity for that date...

V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, opens with the following...

I'd say the explosion is "the" moment, naturally.

Great sequence as a whole, though!

What a way to start a series!

15 Comments

• At November 6, 2009, John Parker wrote:

  A truly magnificent series. I remember waiting anxiously for the next issue of Warrior magazine to come out every month ...

• At November 6, 2009, Frederyck wrote:

  Yeah, this was the series that started it all for me. Suddenly, comics weren't just about Uncle Scrooge or Donald ...

• At November 6, 2009, Ian Thal wrote:

  For me, the moment is when V quotes the Bloodied Captain's speech from Macbeth Act I, Scene ii. I ...

• At November 6, 2009, Lt. Clutch wrote:

  Who WAS that chap in the Guy Fawkes mask? An outstanding series!

• At November 6, 2009, Greg Burgas wrote:

  I'm glad you posted this. I forgot it was Guy Fawkes' Day yesterday until I turned off my computer, ...

• At November 6, 2009, Blackjak wrote:

  Damn. I hate the re-coloured version... it always felt better in black and white...

  Otherwise, yay!

• At November 6, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  Which explosion did you mean?

  Not that it matters. The entire series is a great read.

  Too bad the movie was ...

• At November 6, 2009, The Crazed Spruce wrote:

  I actually thought the movie was okay. The book was better, though.

• At November 6, 2009, chad wrote:

  i would also go with the look of shock on the goons faces when V comes a calling and takes ...

• At November 6, 2009, jazzbo wrote:

  I also thought the movie was pretty good. No where near the level of the sourcce material, but still a ...

• At November 6, 2009, callen wrote:

  am i the only one that is reminded of Elisha Deshku when looking at the woman in some of the ...

• At November 6, 2009, danjack wrote:

  i loved the movie, even tho' there were substantial changes. also, every time they said 'conservative' i just mentally replaced ...

• At November 6, 2009, Jacob T. Levy wrote:

  It's been a while since I read V. Looking at these pages, I'm struck by what's happened to my ...

• At November 6, 2009, fourthworlder wrote:

  I thought the movie captured the comic about as well as a movie could, certainly much better than Watchmen.

  Obvious as ...

• At November 7, 2009, wwk5d wrote:

  I think the movie was one of the better Moore adaptations.

Here's the next four covers! And click here for the master list of all the covers posted so far!

29 Comments

• At November 5, 2009, Dennis Costa wrote:

  Wow, today's batch was a biggie. They should ALL be in the Top 10, and especially the first three.

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  And therein lies the rub, Dennis.

  So many great covers - which one will make the top of the list?

• At November 5, 2009, buttler wrote:

  No argument here. Every one a classic. And hey, it's Weezie!

• At November 5, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  Wow. I've owned 3 of those as the original comic. The Flash issue I've got in at least 3 reprints. ...

• At November 5, 2009, Thok wrote:

  Today's theme is "Covers that marked the appearance of a new age of comic books", right?

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Ha!

  I've eschewed themes so far, but I actually DO have a funny theme I want to use - I've got ...

• At November 5, 2009, buttler wrote:

  You know what I miss? The Cover Theme Game. Not that there's any lack of other things ...

• At November 5, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  Fantastic choices all around.

• At November 5, 2009, Rene wrote:

  All the covers so far have been amazing, with the exception of the Atom cover, that was underwhelming.

• At November 5, 2009, RCorman wrote:

  The Crisis cover is a really nicely drawn and a powerful image, and it was just as powerful the first ...

• At November 5, 2009, chad wrote:

  hard choice espically seeing my favorite batman story in the list but finaly went with crisis on infinite earths where ...

• At November 5, 2009, buttler wrote:

  a cover truely deserving of being iconic espically since it got duplicated as cyclops holding jeans corpse in the dark ...

• At November 5, 2009, Craig wrote:

  I never realized before how much Swamp Thing's wife looks like 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski.

• At November 5, 2009, Craig B. wrote:

  Now these are iconic!

• At November 5, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  Well, 3 out of 4 isn't too bad.

  The Dark Knight Returns is one of Miller's better covers.

  Definitely cannot beat that ...

• At November 5, 2009, Dave wrote:

  As much as I hate Frank Miller and DKR, I'm going to go with that cover, although Showcase #4 is ...

• At November 5, 2009, Dan K wrote:

  House of Secrets is a famous cover but is it Iconic? If it was homaged with completely different characters, ...

• At November 5, 2009, benday-dot wrote:

  Yep, all those are top tier iconic quality. Although I never did care too much for that Crisis cover, it ...

• At November 5, 2009, Anonymous wrote:

  I see Fifties, Seventies, two from the Eighties. All Magic. Oh, DC. Will you ever get your act together? ...

• At November 5, 2009, stealthwise wrote:

  It's funny how I recognize so many more of these covers than the Marvel ones.

• At November 5, 2009, Mason King wrote:

  I'm feeling sentimental, so I'll go with Showcase #4 tonight. Tomorrow, it could be DKR.

• At November 5, 2009, dhole wrote:

  I was hoping we'd see House of Secrets, Dark Knight and Crisis, and here they are all popping up together! ...

• At November 5, 2009, Cully C wrote:

  I know which one Mike Sterling is going to vote for.

• At November 5, 2009, jazzbo wrote:

  I'm with buttler, I miss the cover theme game. Really, I miss the whole Snark Free Corner. That was my ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  In fairness to Marvel, the last poll listed panels, which are bound to be less iconic than the covers are.

  But ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  If it was homaged with completely different characters, would you immidiately get the reference?

  Yep.

• At November 6, 2009, Blackjak wrote:

  The top one reminds me, I have "Clint - The Hamster Triumphant" somewhere...

  :-D

• At November 6, 2009, Carl wrote:

  The Crisis cover isn't iconic because of the pose. It's iconic because it's a powerful image and marked a ...

• At November 6, 2009, Hank wrote:

  How can the most iconic cover NOT be Action 1?

Welcome to the Comics Should Be Good Top 100 Comic Book Storylines poll!

It's been awhile since we've done one of these, and the end of the year is always a good time for it, I think.

It's time to vote for your top ten all-time favorite comic book storylines!

Here's the deal. You folks all vote in the comments section here up until 11:59 PM Eastern time, November 25th (the day before Thanksgiving), I'll tabulate all the votes and I'll begin a countdown of the winners starting November 27th!

Sound good?

Okay, here are the guidelines!

1. Vote in the comments section below, making sure to include that classic word "ACBC" somewhere in your comment so your vote will be marked invisible.

2. Vote for your ten favorite comic book storylines. Vote for TEN - less than ten storylines and I don't count your ballot.

3. Rank your ten favorite comic book storylines from #1 (your most favorite) to #10 (your 10th most favorite). I'd prefer it if you actually numbered your entry, #1-10. It's easier for me to count.

4. Your top choice will be given 10 points, your second choice 9, etc.

5. A comic book storyline is a main plotline that continues under one title, whether it be the title of the comic it appears in (like the Kree-Skrull War in Avengers or the first battle against Ra's Al Ghul in Batman) or the title of a crossover (like Crisis on Infinite Earths, Utopia, Kraven's Last Hunt, Seven Soldiers, etc.).

6. A comic book storyline must be at least two issues long. One-off stories need not apply, Even though that eliminates graphic novels like the great Asterios Polyp and one-shots like The Killing Joke, but, well, them's the breaks.

7. Unless clearly labeled as a storyline, there is a 12-issue limit for storylines (this is to dissuade votes like "Preacher #1-60" as one storyline). Galactic Storm is clearly labeled a storyline, even though it lasts more than 12 issues, same with Church and State in Cerebus. Fall of the Mutants also likely lasted more than 12 issues, but was clearly labeled as a storyline.

8. When listing your storyline, just try to make it clear what you're talking about.

9. I'll make various decisions in the interest of fairness.

If you have questions/clarification requests, feel free to ask them in the comments section below.

Remember, please include the following word: ACBC - on your ballot. It will make it so your ballot appears invisible to other readers, so only I can read it (and count your vote secretly).

Most importantly, have fun!

Now vote!

101 Comments

• At November 5, 2009, Sprout wrote:

  Cool idea !

  Does 52 count as a storyline ?

  Does one of the sories in 52 (example : "Animal ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  No to the first one, but yes to the second.

  In other words, no to "52" but yes to "Animal Man, ...

• At November 5, 2009, Sprout wrote:

  OK. Thanks !

• At November 5, 2009, DanCJ wrote:

  Hmm. That ruling on 52 seems to violate rule 7.

  Then again I hate rule 7 as it stops me ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Hmm. That ruling on 52 seems to violate rule 7.

  It is saved by rule 9, which is the most ...

• At November 5, 2009, Bernard the Poet wrote:

  Brian, in your capacity as judge and jury can you confirm/deny that the following are storylines, please:-

  1) Daredevil #31 - ...

• At November 5, 2009, Bernard the Poet wrote:

  Oh, me again....

  Is Frank Miller's Elektra Saga, one storyline or two (the death of Elektra/the resurrection of Elektra) ?

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  1) Daredevil #31 - #81 (Bendis/Maleev) - from Silke revealing Daredevil's secret identity to Daredevil going to prison.

  Deny.

  2) Wonder Woman ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Is Frank Miller's Elektra Saga, one storyline or two (the death of Elektra/the resurrection of Elektra) ?

  Two.

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Last night, when he was giving me some help with the guidelines, Steve Gerding came up with a good term ...

• At November 5, 2009, Ajit wrote:

  Does the original saga of Ra's Al Ghul, which ran in non-consecutive issues of Detective Comics and Batman in 1971-1972, ...

• At November 5, 2009, fit2print wrote:

  Remember when you were back in school and your English teacher would say: "I want you to write a 500-word ...

• At November 5, 2009, The Crazed Spruce wrote:

  Would a self-contained mini-series (say, "Watchmen" or "Crisis on Infinite Earths") be considered a storyline?

• At November 5, 2009, Wraith wrote:

  Actually... I'm questioning whether it would be possible to reduce these features a bit? "Cool Comic Book Moments," "Iconic Covers," ...

• At November 5, 2009, Gabe wrote:

  Just a couple of questions:

  1- How are we to treat manga for a list like this? Example: Naoki Urasawa's Monster ...

• At November 5, 2009, Jeremy wrote:

  Would All-Star Superman count? Its twelve issues, "supposely" an on-going, and it does have an overarching story running through the ...

• At November 5, 2009, MCGroupy wrote:

  Tough call, as this series has me mesmerized every month with all the great arcs... I guess I'll settle for ...

• At November 5, 2009, Kevin wrote:

  Is From Hell discounted because it's a melodrama told in SIXTEEN parts and not twelve?

• At November 5, 2009, Ninjazilla wrote:

  Ooh i think All star superman should count, without going into Spoilers for anyone who for some reason hasnt read ...

• At November 5, 2009, Gavin Bell wrote:

  if we provide a top 10 and some of our choices are disallowed (e.g. you decide Watchmen doesn't count), does ...

• At November 5, 2009, nikki wrote:

  I thought All Star Superman was really disjointed. A lot of one shots with a single premise that was on ...

• At November 5, 2009, Danielle Leigh wrote:

  I'm kinda sad -- I don't know U.S. comics well enough to participate in this poll.

  But I look ...

• At November 5, 2009, Mory Buckman wrote:

  The twelve-issue rule seems totally arbitrary. I would have picked Planet Hulk, but that's fourteen issues so I guess it's ...

• At November 5, 2009, Adam wrote:

  So, wait...does the 12-issue limit eliminate stories like Crisis or Civil War? As individual series, they're within the limit. ...

• At November 5, 2009, Josh wrote:

  KJE: you need to include the magic word mentioned above in order for your vote to be counted.

• At November 5, 2009, Tekende wrote:

  What do you mean Daredevil 31-81 doesn't count? Yeah, it's 50 issues, but it's clearly all one storyline, and if ...

• At November 5, 2009, Stefan Wenger wrote:

  Mory... It's twelve issues UNLESS it's clearly marked as a storyline. So Planet Hulk counts, and as he said ...

• At November 5, 2009, Da Fug wrote:

  Man, I swear people just comment without reading posts. Half these questions can be answered by reading the fucking ...

• At November 5, 2009, Jeff Ryan wrote:

  Brian, what if people forget to mention a Quasar storyline? Does Rule 9 allow you to add it in, since ...

• At November 5, 2009, Teebore wrote:

  So, wait...does the 12-issue limit eliminate stories like Crisis or Civil War? As individual series, they're within the limit. However, ...

• At November 5, 2009, DanLarkin wrote:

  Look at rule 7, folks. The 12 issue limit is only for storylines not expressly labeled as storylines. Planet Hulk ...

• At November 5, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  While we're vivisecting your standards...

  The first story I thought of was American Gothic, which ran from Swamp Thing 37 - ...

• At November 5, 2009, Colin.ynwa wrote:

  "I'm kinda sad -- I don't know U.S. comics well enough to participate in this poll. "

  There's nowt that says ...

• At November 5, 2009, GarBut wrote:

  Brian, it's hard to see through all the nitpickyness, but try to remember: These comments indicate overall enthusiasm and excitement.

  Good ...

• At November 5, 2009, Jeff R. wrote:

  So, (1) anything that has an official name as a subset of the overall title is good, even if it ...

• At November 5, 2009, Kevin wrote:

  Andrew Collins:

  I don't want to nitpick but shouldn't Locas be broken up in to storylines like "Wigwam Bam" and "Death ...

• At November 5, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  Andrew: Earth Stories, American Gothic and Death of Speedy were the first 3 things that sprang to my mind. Great ...

• At November 5, 2009, franser wrote:

  What about a story that was not contained in consequential issues, but as a dangling plot? For example the revelation ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Does the original saga of Ra's Al Ghul, which ran in non-consecutive issues of Detective Comics and Batman in 1971-1972, ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Would a self-contained mini-series (say, "Watchmen" or "Crisis on Infinite Earths") be considered a storyline? Yes.

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Actually... I'm questioning whether it would be possible to reduce these features a bit? No.

• At November 5, 2009, Thenodrin wrote:

  Is "Kraven's Last Hunt" invalid by Rule 5?

  Theno

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  1- How are we to treat manga for a list like this? Example: Naoki Urasawa's Monster as one big storyline? ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Is "Kraven's Last Hunt" invalid by Rule 5? No, it was the title of the crossover.

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Would All-Star Superman count? Its twelve issues, "supposely" an on-going, and it does have an overarching story running through the ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Is From Hell discounted because it's a melodrama told in SIXTEEN parts and not twelve? No.

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  if we provide a top 10 and some of our choices are disallowed (e.g. you decide Watchmen doesn't count), does ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  The twelve-issue rule seems totally arbitrary. I would have picked Planet Hulk, but that's fourteen issues so I guess it's ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  So, wait...does the 12-issue limit eliminate stories like Crisis or Civil War? As individual series, they're within the limit. However, ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  What do you mean Daredevil 31-81 doesn't count? Yeah, it's 50 issues, but it's clearly all one storyline, and if ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Brian, what if people forget to mention a Quasar storyline? Does Rule 9 allow you to add it in, since ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Look at rule 7, folks. The 12 issue limit is only for storylines not expressly labeled as storylines. Planet Hulk ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  The first story I thought of was American Gothic, which ran from Swamp Thing 37 - 50. Too long?

  No, that's ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  There's nowt that says that the runs have to be American.

  Yeah, feel free to vote for Manga!

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Brian, it's hard to see through all the nitpickyness, but try to remember: These comments indicate overall enthusiasm and excitement.

  Good ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  What about long storylines with semi-official names? The original clone sage, for example, not that anyone ought to vote for ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  What about a story that was not contained in consequential issues, but as a dangling plot? For example the revelation ...

• At November 5, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  Brian,

  Thanks for removing my boneheaded mistake.

  I don't want to nitpick but shouldn't Locas be broken up in to storylines like ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  That's a fair point, Kevin. If Brian discounts "Locas" as a whole, then "Death Of Speedy" would be my replacement ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  It doesn't matter how many issues the Civil War storyline runs, since they are all clearly part of the Civil ...

• At November 5, 2009, Ken Raining wrote:

  So one could vote for something that has an unofficial storyline name, like the Galactus Trilogy, but not, say, Mike ...

• At November 5, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  Thanks, Brian. Hate to be a pain, but I just caught one more mistake. I meant Incredible Hulk #417-418, not ...

• At November 5, 2009, rhod wrote:

  As much as I hate to ask more nit-picking questions...

  Would something like 'Age of Apocalypse' count? It wasn't strictly a ...

• At November 5, 2009, Dan K wrote:

  What about your Ghost World? Would that count? I would hope so.

• At November 5, 2009, Steve Gerding wrote:

  Since Brian brought it up, when we were hammering out the rules for this last night over IM, I mentioned ...

• At November 5, 2009, Jeff R. wrote:

  Judas Contract ended with #44 and the annual, so any grouping that doesn't go back further than #34 should be ...

• At November 5, 2009, DanLarkin wrote:

  @Steve Gerdling- I think that's a good distinction, though "Fall of the Mutants" might not be the best example. ...

• At November 5, 2009, Wesley Smith wrote:

  Hey, is there a way to know if/when our nominations have been accepted?

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Would something like 'Age of Apocalypse' count? It wasn't strictly a single storyline, more like a collection of stories in ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  What about your Ghost World? Would that count? I would hope so.

  My Ghost World? :)

  And yeah, that would certainly count.

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Since Brian brought it up, when we were hammering out the rules for this last night over IM, I mentioned ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Hey, is there a way to know if/when our nominations have been accepted?

  Does it say that your post is up ...

• At November 5, 2009, Steve Gerding wrote:

  @DanLarkin - fair enough! It's been a loooong time since I read it.

• At November 5, 2009, Steve Gerding wrote:

  UBER-ARC!

• At November 5, 2009, GarBut wrote:

  I do very much like "über-arc" as a catch-all term for the magnitude of Daredevil #31-81.

  I was hoping, though, that ...

• At November 5, 2009, Anonymous wrote:

  Hey, Brian, where would you say the Dark Phoenix saga begins? I have a collected edition that begins with ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  The simplest answer is just to say "The Dark Phoenix Saga." :)

  But seriously, I would say #129-137, like the trade ...

• At November 5, 2009, Craig B. wrote:

  Oh my gosh, I totally forgot about "Days of Future Past" and the original "Brood" storyline in X-Men (that was ...

• At November 5, 2009, Adam Messinger wrote:

  If you count the entirety of Ultimates 2 in there then add that as my vote instead of just the ...

• At November 5, 2009, Mary Warner wrote:

  What about Peter Gillis's Doctor Strange series in Strange Tales vol 2? Does that count as a single story? ...

• At November 5, 2009, CriticalFel wrote:

  3 things:

  a) For this poll's purpose, I'm guessing The Death of Superman doesn't count, but either Doomsday!/Funeral for a Friend/Reign ...

• At November 5, 2009, James wrote:

  You may strike this out if it is irrelevant but would current running story lines that are only one or ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  You may strike this out if it is irrelevant but would current running story lines that are only one or ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  a) For this poll's purpose, I'm guessing The Death of Superman doesn't count, but either Doomsday!/Funeral for a Friend/Reign of ...

• At November 6, 2009, Dan Felty wrote:

  Thanks, Brian! I put some good comics on my list.

• At November 6, 2009, Sprout wrote:

  Does the Englehart/Simonson/Rogers run on Detective Comics count as one storyline ? (the romance with Silver St Cloud and the ...

• At November 6, 2009, Nick Evans wrote:

  What about extended series that are not uber-arcs but were clearly intended from the outset to have a finite duration? ...

• At November 6, 2009, Dalarsco wrote:

  He specifically said no to all of Preacher, so break those up into arcs and pick your favorite.

• At November 6, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Does the Englehart/Simonson/Rogers run on Detective Comics count as one storyline ? (the romance with Silver St Cloud and the ...

• At November 6, 2009, Blackjak wrote:

  This....

  This is going to be tough...

  Part of me wants to put certain 2000AD storylines in there (Apocalypse War, Khronicles of ...

• At November 6, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Does "Scarlet Traces" by Ian Edgington and D'Israeli count? I think it was originally a web-comic, then a mini-series, then ...

• At November 6, 2009, Rene wrote:

  The whole of Sandman clearly is not a single storyline. The Doll's House and Season of Mists are very different, ...

• At November 6, 2009, Chris McAree wrote:

  I'm spending far too much time making a huge list! Then trying to whittle it down! I need to get ...

• At November 6, 2009, Dave wrote:

  "The whole of Sandman clearly is not a single storyline. The Doll's House and Season of Mists are very different, ...

• At November 6, 2009, Philip wrote:

  It all comes down to common sense guys, really.

  Read the rules, Brian leaves doors open to almost anything you want ...

• At November 6, 2009, Black Manta wrote:

  I can't decide between Secret Wars II or Dark Knight II. Should I just flip a coin?

• At November 6, 2009, Kevin wrote:

  I know I've asked as many questions as anyone else but I can't wrap my head around how to compare ...

• At November 6, 2009, Kevin wrote:

  Also, I need help. Ditko left Strange tales with 146 and wrapped up the ongoing Dormmamu/Eternity storyline. Does ...

• At November 7, 2009, D. Mclachlin wrote:

  Kevin: I would say the Eternity Story starts with Strange Tales 136, when Doctor Strange gets back to Earth, Visits ...

• At November 8, 2009, DanCJ wrote:

  Does rule 5 disqualify Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow because it was split across Action Comics and Superman ...

• At November 8, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  The title of the crossover, Dan, would be "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow."

The look at Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier continues!

Okay, so the set-up for this scene from New Frontier #5 is that some big bad alien is causing all sorts of trouble. Hal Jordan has just become Green Lantern, but he's still, well, you know, green, but he was a hero even before he had a magic green ring, as shown by his following actions...

That kiss is amazing.

14 Comments

• At November 5, 2009, mizike wrote:

  Are there going to be many more "New Frontier" moments? They're starting to wear a bit thin...

• At November 5, 2009, JJ wrote:

  If Hitchcock had filmed this, the rocket would have gone into a tunnel.

  More Cooke, please. The Parker ...

• At November 5, 2009, Stephane Savoie wrote:

  Thought the story for NF was kinda thin, but I do enjoy seeing a kiss accompanied by Kirby Krackle.

• At November 5, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  Oh, I don't know, I thought the "moment" is where he called her "Miss Rich Bitch" right to her face. ...

• At November 5, 2009, chad wrote:

  i would go with the speech Hal gives Carol saying he learned to survive some times he is willing to ...

• At November 5, 2009, Mark McD wrote:

  Turning Carol into Star Sapphire was the dumbest thing they could've done in GL, but let's face it, the rules ...

• At November 5, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Are there going to be many more "New Frontier" moments?

  Depends on your definition of "many".

  At least three more.

  They're starting ...

• At November 5, 2009, Kirayoshi wrote:

  Y'know, given the date today, maybe you should take a one-day break from New Frontier(not that I don't enjoy these ...

• At November 5, 2009, Aaron wrote:

  As much as I love Cooke's drawing style, his page layouts have never done it for me. The pin-up ...

• At November 5, 2009, Roman wrote:

  Y'know, I'm just going to come out and say that I think the story for New Frontier is pretty awesome, ...

• At November 5, 2009, benday-dot wrote:

  Surely one of the greatest kisses in all of comics. Thank you Mr. Cooke for all these sublime moments.

• At November 6, 2009, NotThatGuy wrote:

  I think the archive page is broken, at least it hasn't worked for me for two days.

• At November 6, 2009, fanboy d wrote:

  I'd quite happily read 365 Cool New Frontier Moments. But more Cooke from anywhere will do.

• At November 7, 2009, Trey wrote:

  Back when men were men and women were women.

Here's the next four covers! And click here for the master list of all the covers posted so far!

24 Comments

• At November 4, 2009, BRIAN wrote:

  awesome legion cover!!!!

  I suspect we'll see LSH #294 at some point.

  Cheers,

  B

• At November 4, 2009, DanLarkin wrote:

  I generally dislike Fabry's Preacher covers- Dillon's versions of the characters are so definitive that they always looked off to ...

• At November 4, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  That Adventure cover is the first one to come along that I wasn't instantly familiar with. I know I've seen ...

• At November 4, 2009, Thok wrote:

  This is the issue they sacrificed Lightning Lad to the electron gods of Staticclingos-7?

  They sacrificed what turned out to be ...

• At November 4, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  All 4 are great choices. Totally forgot about the Preacher cover as an "iconic" one but I agree with it's ...

• At November 4, 2009, Rebis wrote:

  I love how Batgirl used to carry a purse on her hip.

• At November 4, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  I'd go for Preacher # 1.

• At November 4, 2009, Rob M wrote:

  Superman vs. Flash.

• At November 4, 2009, Dave wrote:

  Of these four, Superman/Flash is the most iconic of the covers, but all four desere to be on the list.

• At November 4, 2009, Dan Fleming wrote:

  That Preacher cover is second only to the "Meat Man" cover. Anyone who has read the series knows which ...

• At November 4, 2009, chad wrote:

  all good choices had to go with super man vs flash for it had two big guns trrying to answer ...

• At November 4, 2009, Ralph wrote:

  That´s the first time i saw that Adventure Comics cover. It´s great, though.

• At November 4, 2009, Ultimate Matt wrote:

  Superman vs the Flash. I dislike that Preacher cover because Jesse looks so sinister on it - not what his ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dan Felty wrote:

  Wow, Preacher #1 cost $2.95 in 1995? That's a pretty penny.

• At November 4, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  Dan:

  Vertigo first issues were frequently 40 pages around this time. The next issue is back to regular size and ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dan Felty wrote:

  Yeah, I remember it being long, but it's a shame the best comics are priced like it.

• At November 4, 2009, stealthwise wrote:

  It was $4.25 Canadian too. It's funny how Vertigo books are cheaper here now than nearly 15 years ago!

• At November 4, 2009, Mike Blake wrote:

  Superman #199, all the way down to the finish line!

• At November 4, 2009, CriticalFel wrote:

  I think this early on the countdown, we already see how the creation of covers has changed with the years. ...

• At November 4, 2009, Jacob T. Levy wrote:

  Fabry's awesome, but somehow his covers for Preacher so turned me off that I never even tried the series while ...

• At November 4, 2009, Rene wrote:

  Dunno, I can see the appeal of both kinds of covers.

  Yes, I do feel nostalgic for the old-style "story" covers. ...

• At November 5, 2009, nikki wrote:

  Great Legion cover but I think Adventure 247 will outvote it. I worry Legion fans may be split!

• At November 5, 2009, danjack wrote:

  Preacher. Ugh.

  DFTBA

• At November 6, 2009, Blackjak wrote:

  Guess it takes all sorts. I love Fabry's Preacher and Hellblazer covers...

And here are the final week's worth of poll results!

Enjoy!

I'll be giving the rounded percentage numbers (like 37% instead of 36.8%), except to break a tie! Because of rounded numbers, some percentages may seem to add up to more than 100%.
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Out of 1,842 replies to the question:

Who is your least favorite member of the original Justice League?

You decided:

38% Aquaman

21% Martian Manhunter

15% Wonder Woman

8% Green Lantern

7% Superman

6% Batman

5% Flash
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Out of 1,189 replies to the question:

Did you like Ben Reilly as a character?

You decided:

60% Yes

40% No
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Out of 1,745 replies to the question:

What was your favorite villain reveal?

You decided:

21% The Thunderbolts are the Masters of Evil!

20% Ozymandias is the evil mastermind behind everything!

9% Xorn is Magneto!

8% Terra is working for Deathstroke!

5% Alex is working with the Pride!!

4.3% Omniman is a villain!

4.18% Jean Loring killed Sue Dibny!

4.18% Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin!

4.13% Darkseid is the bad guy in The Great Darkness Saga!

3.61% The President is the head of the Secret Empire!

3.15% Dynaman is Hitler!

2.98% Niles Caulder is the big bad!

2.69% "Why my dear, just say...'Uncle'..." from Swamp Thing

2.46% Mr. Mxyzptlk has gone insane!

1.78% The Hyperclan are White Martians!

1.6% Other answer...

0.63% Doctor Octopus is the Master Planner!

0.63% Alfred is the Outsider!
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Out of 1,321 replies to the question:

Which title has had the highest percentage of great stories?

You decided:

36% Amazing Spider-Man

26% Daredevil

22% Hellblazer

17% Flash
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Out of 1,345 replies to the question:

Who is your favorite member of the original Justice League?

You decided:

29% Batman

17% Green Lantern

15.91% Martian Manhunter

15.61% Flash

11% Superman

6% Aquaman

5% Wonder Woman
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Out of 1,148 replies to the question:

Who is the definitive Justice League artist?

You decided:

33% George Perez

28% Kevin Maguire

14% Dick Dillin

9% Howard Porter

6% Mike Sekowsky

3.22% Doug Mahnke

3.14% Adam Hughes

2.87% Ed Benes
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Out of 1,597 replies to the question:

Who is your favorite butler?

You decided:

76% Alfred Pennyworth

24% Edwin Jarvis

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Out of 1,694 replies to the question:

Who is your favorite member of the all-new, all-different X-Men?

You decided:

36% Nightcrawler

20% Wolverine

15% Cyclops

12% Colossus

8% Storm

5% Banshee

2% Thunderbird

1% Sunfire

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Out of 657 replies to the question:

Who is your favorite horror comic host?

You decided:

35% Crypt Keeper (Tales from the Crypt)

25% Cain (House of Mystery)

19% Vampirella (Vampirella)

6% Abel (House of Secrets)

3.35% The Three Witches (The Witching Hour)

3.2% Uncle Creepy (Creepy)

2.89% Destiny (Weird Mystery Tales)

2.13% Vault Keeper (Vault of Horror)

1.98% Lucien (Tales of the Ghost Castle)

1% Old Witch (The Haunt of Fear)

0.46% Cousin Eerie (Eerie)

0.3% Eve (Secrets of Sinister House)
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That's it for You Decide '09!

I hope you had fun!!

68 Comments

• At November 4, 2009, Chris Jones wrote:

  I did!

  I'm a little sorry I missed that X Men poll, though; I definitely would have shown Colossus some love.

• At November 4, 2009, Joe wrote:

  I misread "Which title has had the highest percentage of great stories?" when I first saw it and thought it ...

• At November 4, 2009, Hangman Jury wrote:

  Amazing Spider-Man?

  Really?

  Because the Flash Wally West series was essentially crappy to kick off, but then we had Messner-Loebs, Waid, Morrison, ...

• At November 4, 2009, Ted wrote:

  Those Justice League results are surprising, to say the least. Martian Manhunter 21% most disliked, while 40% Black Lantern wanted ...

• At November 4, 2009, Andy wrote:

  To be fair, the only other member of the original JLA represented on the Black Lantern poll was Aquaman, who ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dave wrote:

  I am the only one who suspects Howard Porter got a big boost because of the writer he was paired ...

• At November 4, 2009, Organica wrote:

  Much love for Kurt! Like it.

  Also enjoying the dichotomy of J'onn being second least liked and third most liked in ...

• At November 4, 2009, Rene wrote:

  Andy, don't forget that these polls only measure the oppinion of the Internet hardcore fans.

  I very much doubt Nightcrawler is ...

• At November 4, 2009, Harold wrote:

  Xorn is Magneto got more votes than i thought possible...

• At November 4, 2009, DanCJ wrote:

  Has George Perez got some massive history with the JLA that I'm unaware of? All I know of is ...

• At November 4, 2009, Tanzim wrote:

  No love for the Caulder reveal makes me sad. Did enough people not read that amazing run of Doom Patrol?

  And ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dan Felty wrote:

  I thought Caulder as a bad guy didn't add much to the story and was poorly telegraphed. I love ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dan Felty wrote:

  I mean, "was foreshadowed in a clumsy and obvious way." Because "poorly telegraphed" doesn't really make sense.

• At November 4, 2009, Matt Ampersand wrote:

  Holy crap, Nightcrawler won? Awesome!

• At November 4, 2009, Rusty Priske wrote:

  Even where I disagree it is a simple difference of opinion....

  BUT...

  Amazing Spider-man having a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of great stories than ...

• At November 4, 2009, Matt D wrote:

  People had to read the ASM question wrong. I was expecting a little more disdain towards Green Lantern. Ah ...

• At November 4, 2009, Mea wrote:

  Amen Matt. Swashbuckling Nightcrawler is sorely missed.

  I am surprised Hellblazer finished as low as it did. ...

• At November 4, 2009, azjohnson5 wrote:

  Rusty, people didn't misread the question they just don't read Hellblazer.

  It actually saddens me that Dick Dillin got so little ...

• At November 4, 2009, Tekende wrote:

  I'm, uh, pretty sure I voted for Batman on both JLA polls. I think I misread the "least favorite" one ...

• At November 4, 2009, Wesley Smith wrote:

  Perez is a fantastic artist, but I don't see how he could be considered the DEFINITIVE artist for any iteration ...

• At November 4, 2009, M Bloom wrote:

  "It actually saddens me that Dick Dillin got so little respect. Sure he wasn't the most famous nor was he ...

• At November 4, 2009, billy k wrote:

  I own well over 200 Justice League books, highest percentage Obviously by Dillin, ( if you are gonna argue for ...

• At November 4, 2009, Gavin wrote:

  Thunderbolts over Ozymandius...really...really...REALLY?!?!?!

  How many copies of the Thunderbolts TPBs get sold every year? Stupid internet polls.

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Wow, aside from Alfred and the Elf, nothing this week went the way I voted. I went for ...

• At November 4, 2009, mrjayberry wrote:

  Has anyone gone back and looked in the greatest % of stories thread and seen how many people said they ...

• At November 4, 2009, Apodaca wrote:

  These seem to really indicate the age level of the average voter. Ben Reilly is a good character, Nightcrawler's their ...

• At November 4, 2009, Iron Maiden wrote:

  The Ozymandias reveal was pretty easy to guess in Watchmen IMO. I don't think it was meant to ...

• At November 4, 2009, JKC wrote:

  According to wikipedia, Porter drew 34 issues of JLA (with Morrisson and Waid).

  Perez drew 10 issues. News to me.

• At November 4, 2009, Jeff R. wrote:

  In addition to the issues where he drew interiors, Perez was the cover artist for another large handful of that ...

• At November 4, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  I'll admit that the JLA artist one was a bit of an experiment on my part. I was curious to ...

• At November 4, 2009, Les Fontenelle wrote:

  It doesn't MATTER how many issues Perez or Porter or Dillin drew. The question isn't who drew the longest run ...

• At November 4, 2009, dhole wrote:

  Honestly thought Xorn was a contender for no. 1 spot, but it placed really low. But I agree Thunderbolts deserves ...

• At November 4, 2009, Wesley Smith wrote:

  I view 'definitive artists' like a word association game. If I give you the name of a character or team ...

• At November 4, 2009, Eric wrote:

  Great Hera! It's ok Wonder Woman. You're still not just my favorite League member, but my favorite comic character.

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  As a kid Perez was my favorite comics artist, and I was always excited on the rare occasions when he'd ...

• At November 4, 2009, Mary Warner wrote:

  Yes! Nightcrawler beat the highly overated Wolverine! I thought he had a good chance of winning after reading ...

• At November 4, 2009, Martin wrote:

  Regarding Ozzymandias, I would agree that it seemed quite clear that he was behind everything (and I was not spoiled). ...

• At November 4, 2009, sterg wrote:

  Is Perez the definitive DC artist then? Infantino? Swan? Kane? Cardy?

  That may be a good question for next year...

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  I'm sure part of the X-Men vote is Wolvereverything backlash, but even when I loooved Wolverine when I was 12, ...

• At November 4, 2009, sterg wrote:

  And as for the Ozymandias reveal, in 1986 the hero-turns-heel trope was not so well worn as it is now. ...

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  I'm sure he'd take Wonder Woman and Teen Titans without breaking a sweat, but I'd be curious to see if ...

• At November 4, 2009, Thenodrin wrote:

  I think that some of the answers depend on the interpretation of the question. For example, I didn't really like ...

• At November 4, 2009, Roman wrote:

  Hey Hangman Jury:

  Flash was great when it kicked off. Baron is a stud. Guice is awesome. Mahlstedt ...

• At November 4, 2009, Julian wrote:

  How did Hellblazer not win?

• At November 4, 2009, dhole wrote:

  @buttler:

  I strongly suspect Perez would take out Kirby as the definitive Avengers artist.

  But John Buscema would give them both a ...

• At November 4, 2009, Fabio wrote:

  "I'm sure he'd take Wonder Woman and Teen Titans without breaking a sweat, but I'd be curious to see if ...

• At November 4, 2009, Fabio wrote:

  I mean, if ask about THE DEFINITIVE Avengers artist

  1 - John Buscema

  2 - Jack Kirby (right behind Buscema but way ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dave wrote:

  In retrospect, it seems like sales figures are the best predictor of where a title fell in the "best stories" ...

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Mind you, I love me some Neal Adams. And Al Milgrom ... seems like a nice guy.

• At November 4, 2009, Stefan Wenger wrote:

  Nightcrawler ALWAYS beats Wolveirne in these polls. I figure it's hard for people to claim such a popular, over-used ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dean wrote:

  On the least favorite JLAer poll, the mean was 14.3% and the Standard Deviation was 11.9%. Wonder Woman got ...

• At November 4, 2009, Fabio wrote:

  Buttler:

  Neal Adams... Man, I love hlm, but he draw just a few issues with the Avengers (five, maybe?), the Kree-Srull ...

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Neal Adams... Man, I love hlm, but he draw just a few issues with the Avengers (five, maybe?), the Kree-Srull ...

• At November 4, 2009, Dan Felty wrote:

  Definitive is a tricky term. If you're the artist on JLA, it's a lot easier to provide definitive versions ...

• At November 4, 2009, tk. wrote:

  I went Crypt Keeper myself, but I'm really surprised at the low placement of the Old Witch from The Haunt ...

• At November 4, 2009, David C wrote:

  I've never seen so sad a thing as the people here getting worked up over the results of opinion poles. ...

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  I envy your sheltered life. I've seen some sad things in my day.

• At November 4, 2009, FunkyGreenJerusalem wrote:

  This was a really fun 'event' Brian!

  I'd love it if you did it again - preferably without a year long ...

• At November 4, 2009, Wesley Smith wrote:

  As far as the "favorite X-Man" question, I think word choice is really important with these things. The question wasn't ...

• At November 4, 2009, FunkyGreenJerusalem wrote:

  I've never seen so sad a thing as the people here getting worked up over the results of opinion poles.

  I ...

• At November 4, 2009, Rene wrote:

  A character that I want to have a beer with in real life with can still be deadly boring in ...

• At November 4, 2009, FunkyGreenJerusalem wrote:

  I know that many fans think of fictional characters as more like friends, to the point of getting pissed when ...

• At November 4, 2009, Brad Curran wrote:

  "How many people here were pubescents reading comics in the nineties?"

  Yes. Me, at least. How old are you again?

• At November 5, 2009, Dan Felty wrote:

  Oh, I voted Old Witch. That's a bad showing!

• At November 5, 2009, DanCJ wrote:

  Not much live for Dynaman being Hitler? That really is my all time favourite reveal. That one made ...

• At November 5, 2009, J Gomez wrote:

  Well, these were opinion polls, and I long ago stopped expecting people's opinions to be tied to raw logic very ...

• At November 5, 2009, TheGoose wrote:

  Really cool that Cain was #2. Gald to see my vote went somewhere good.

• At November 5, 2009, Jack Norris wrote:

  Some guy said:

  "1 - John Buscema

  2 - Jack Kirby (right behind Buscema but way ahead of:

  3 - George Perez"

  I definitely ...

The look at Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier continues!

There's a lot going on here in this moment from New Frontier #4, so let me see if I can explain it all...

1. Hal Jordan is trying to be part of this space mission that Rick Flagg is doing. He gets scrubbed by Flagg. Jordan is naturally pissed.

2. Flagg's rocket (now flown only by Flagg and Karin Grace) has a malfunction, and is now drifting back towards Earth and certain death upon re-entry.

3. People don't know that the rocket is filled with all sorts of nasty stuff designed to kill Martians. If it explodes in the Earth's atmosphere, well, that's bad.

4. First, Flagg apologizes to Hal, telling him that during World War II, Flagg was in a squadron with King Faraday (the fellow in charge of the space mission), Ace Morgan (of the Challengers of the Unknown) and Martin Jordan, Hal's father. Flagg scrubbed Hal because he knew the odds of surviving the mission were slim, and he saved Hal for his father.

5. Out of nowhere, Ace Morgan and his Challengers come up with an attempt to save Rick and Karin from their rocket, not knowing that in doing so, they would be dooming Earth (as the rocket would explode in Earth's atmosphere with no one to keep it from doing so).

6. So King Faraday is killing in the big guns...

It's hard to pick THE moment out of this sequence. What do you folks think? Superman flying away with the Challengers? Rick and Karin exploding the rocket? The final shot of Faraday at their graves?

12 Comments

• At November 4, 2009, Apodaca wrote:

  The movie really gave up one even trying to develop Faraday's character beyond "G-man".

• At November 4, 2009, Shane wrote:

  Personally I'd put the whole sequence as one big moment. Even a bloodied Superman smashing a giant robot in Japan ...

• At November 4, 2009, Philip wrote:

  Simply amazing. Breathtaking artwork. Story's wonderful. I've only read it once, but the past few days are making me pick ...

• At November 4, 2009, chad wrote:

  so many moments to pick but i went with Faraday at the grave site a touch of poetic saddness and ...

• At November 4, 2009, Daniel wrote:

  The page full of the awesome Superman. That, by jing, is what Superman is for.

• At November 4, 2009, stealthwise wrote:

  The moment is definitely Karin and Rick together.

• At November 4, 2009, Roman wrote:

  Faraday is such an awesome character.

• At November 4, 2009, Dean wrote:

  Flag and Karin detaching their helmets was pretty cool.

• At November 4, 2009, Jim Kakalios wrote:

  Agreed - though I think the most perfect panel that sums up that scene is the two of them enjoying ...

• At November 4, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  Can we all just agree to count this whole series as one big "Cool Comic Book Moment"?

• At November 5, 2009, dave chisholm wrote:

  dave stewart's colors are on another level...

• At November 7, 2009, wwk5d wrote:

  I really want to like this series, and as much as I'm liking the artwork, something about it just doesn't ...

Here's the next four covers! And click here for the master list of all the covers posted so far!

40 Comments

• At November 3, 2009, Adam wrote:

  1 and 2, yes. 3 and 4, I'm not familiar with. And thanks to Art Baltazar, I have ...

• At November 3, 2009, JoeMac wrote:

  I've never seen the Teen Titans cover before, but I wasn't a Titan's fan in all fairness. I wasn't familiar ...

• At November 3, 2009, Bryant Hudson wrote:

  Up to this point, the selections have all been excellent. I don't see #3 or #4 belonging in this ...

• At November 3, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  JoeMac and Adam:

  The Titans cover shows Dick Grayson and Wally West giving up their identities as Robin and Kid Flash. ...

• At November 3, 2009, Thenodrin wrote:

  I am so glad to see NTT 39 on the list. That cover ranks up there with "Flash of ...

• At November 3, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  (waiting for the legion of Dick Grayson fans to correct my timeline about when he took on the Nightwing identity ...

• At November 3, 2009, The Dude wrote:

  I like the captions on the Action Comics cover.

  The way it's phrased, it almost seems that Superman is more surprised ...

• At November 3, 2009, Matt D wrote:

  What are the homages for 3?

• At November 3, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Well, Matt, Spider-Man totally copied it. *cough*

• At November 3, 2009, Jeff R. wrote:

  Homages aren't the end-all be-all here, I don't think. (Watchmen #2, for example, had a lot more homages than ...

• At November 3, 2009, Casey wrote:

  That Atom cover totally belongs among the most iconic DC covers. I'm surprised more people don't recognize it/aren't into it.

• At November 3, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  I would definitely say that the Watchmen and the New Teen Titans covers were iconic.

  The Atom and Action Comics wouldn't ...

• At November 3, 2009, Philip wrote:

  The Atom cover's also a spectacular drawing by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson. It always pops up in histories of ...

• At November 3, 2009, Rene wrote:

  I never was a fan of the Atom, and it's the first time I've seen the cover.

• At November 3, 2009, buttler wrote:

  For a minute I got that New Teen Titans cover mixed up with the equally iconic New Teen Titans Keebler ...

• At November 3, 2009, Rene wrote:

  The drawing is beautiful enough, but it's hard for me to see what the fuss is about a midget trapping ...

• At November 3, 2009, DanLarkin wrote:

  The Titans cover's been homaged a couple of times.

  http://www.comics.org/issue/94297/cover/4/?style=default

  http://www.comics.org/issue/88504/cover/4/?style=default

  These are all pretty significant covers.

• At November 3, 2009, Alonso wrote:

  Great choices on all of them. Man, Anderson just inked the hell out of that cover didn't he? Great job.

  All ...

• At November 3, 2009, Scott wrote:

  Kane, Kane, Kane, Kane and also Kane.

  Thank you

• At November 3, 2009, Rebis wrote:

  I've seen this Atom cover a number of times. It's a great image. Wasn't he the first shrinking character in ...

• At November 3, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Nah, Rebis. Doll Man did it in 1939.

• At November 3, 2009, Rene wrote:

  Doll Man was the first shrinking superhero, created in 1944 by Will Eisner.

• At November 3, 2009, Rene wrote:

  Yes, 1939. Sorry!

• At November 3, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  The first three I'm fine with, but I've never seen that Atom cover before. Not to say it isn't an ...

• At November 3, 2009, JoeMac wrote:

  Just wondering... I read somewhere that the Teen Titans #39 cover was inspired by Amazing Spider-Man #50. Is that true?

• At November 3, 2009, Rebis wrote:

  "Doll Man did it in 1939."

  D'oh! That's more than two decades earlier. Is this the Doll Man of the Freedom ...

• At November 3, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Yep, like all of the original Freedom Fighters, Doll Man was a Golden Age Quality Comics hero. Among that team, ...

• At November 3, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Sounds likely, Joe.

  It could also be a Superman #29..8? (or 299?) reference.

  Or an X-Men #138 reference.

• At November 3, 2009, dhole wrote:

  Hey, I was going to suggest the Titans cover, but there it is!

  And I totally forgot about Watchmen, but that's ...

• At November 3, 2009, Randall Majors wrote:

  speaking of "homages" and TT# 39 the first part of this book was copied pretty much panel for panel ...

• At November 3, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Are Vertigo titles counting?

  Vertigo titles count, yes.

• At November 3, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  speaking of "homages" and TT# 39 the first part of this book was copied pretty much panel for panel in ...

• At November 3, 2009, Dan Fleming wrote:

  Columns like this just make me wish DC would put out some more of those Cover to Cover books they ...

• At November 3, 2009, Chris Jones wrote:

  I'm not familiar with the middle two, but recognizable or no they're all pretty rad.

  You should have a "Most Rad ...

• At November 3, 2009, Citizen Scribbler wrote:

  I just thought of a suggestion. I'd like to see Justice League of America #34 from the JLI days. The ...

• At November 3, 2009, dantecat wrote:

  Waiting for Flash 123, JLA (original) 21, Justice League (Giffen) 1, and the man in a gorilla's body holding a ...

• At November 3, 2009, chad wrote:

  hard to pick but i went with titans 39 for it showed dick and wally finaly moving on from being ...

• At November 4, 2009, BRIAN wrote:

  can we see Teen Titans #26 (1960s series)? That's a pretty remarkable shot of heroes giving up their costumes.

  My ...

• At November 4, 2009, Thenodrin wrote:

  Why is Kory the only one naked on the (linked above) cover of Titans #13? And, why have I never ...

• At November 4, 2009, Carl wrote:

  One thing of note with that Titans cover. Dick was indeed moving on to establish his own hero identity. ...

The look at Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier continues!

In #3, Cooke decided to put in his first DC hero who did not actually exist during the late 1950s/early 1960s, and he did so in memorable fashion...

then a bunch of pages on other characters, then we return to...

then a bunch of pages on other characters, then we return to...

Pretty damn cool.

18 Comments

• At November 3, 2009, Crash-Man wrote:

  Goddamn cool.

• At November 3, 2009, Blackjak wrote:

  Yet ANOTHER cool moment that's not in the movie...

  I'm starting to feel cheated now...

  Really going to have to buy the ...

• At November 3, 2009, Lt. Clutch wrote:

  Oh, yeah. THAT rocks.

  They really should have included him in the movie.

• At November 3, 2009, T. wrote:

  Just for kicks, the real John Henry song:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3vF2KVx9KQ

• At November 3, 2009, Kanye West wrote:

  "Yo Brian, I'm really happy for you and I'm 'a let you finish, but John Henry had one of the ...

• At November 3, 2009, Mea wrote:

  Considering how his story ended, I'm not surprised it was cut. Still, it was a very good part of ...

• At November 3, 2009, Adam wrote:

  Didn't they show a young John Henry at the end of the movie reading a book about heroes? It's ...

• At November 3, 2009, Brian wrote:

  AWESOME!!! It is one of the best scenes in the series.

• At November 3, 2009, chad wrote:

  another moment tha tproves what a story teller Darwyn is and new frrointer should be required dc reading. though john ...

• At November 3, 2009, stealthwise wrote:

  Damn, I need to re-read New Frontier yet again. I remember being initially unimpressed by the series while reading ...

• At November 3, 2009, Joe Rice wrote:

  I got to say, if you've only seen the movie I feel sorry for you. I really didn't like ...

• At November 3, 2009, RAB wrote:

  I'm with Joe Rice on this one. I couldn't stand the movie version. Not so much because they ...

• At November 3, 2009, Nick Evans wrote:

  Cool's not the right word for it, but the way John Henry's story ends is also powerfully done.

• At November 3, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Yeah, Nick, I was thinking of whether I should feature that. I'm leaning towards no.

• At November 4, 2009, Nick Evans wrote:

  A Month of Grim Comic Book Moments? You know, for Christmas.

• At November 6, 2009, Callum wrote:

  Haven't read this series yet, but is this the biggest tweak that leads to this series being non-canon? All ...

• At November 6, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  New Frontier would only otherwise work as a retcon if you ignored dates, as the series ties everyone pretty tightly ...

• At November 7, 2009, wwk5d wrote:

  Er, pardon my ignorance, but who is this character supposed to be? i don't want to say Steel...

Here's the next four covers! And click here for the master list of all the covers posted so far!

21 Comments

• At November 2, 2009, The Dude wrote:

  The Green Lantern & Green Arrow cover is from Neal Adams,right?

  The kid might be a junkie but at least he ...

• At November 2, 2009, Scott MacIver wrote:

  6 down, and already the top ten is getting tight.

• At November 2, 2009, djsweet wrote:

  Superman

• At November 2, 2009, chad wrote:

  gotta to go with the green arrow green latern issue for the look on ollies facewhen he finds speedy ...

• At November 2, 2009, Eric wrote:

  Wow, already we have all strong contenders for the top 10. Over 75 years DC has so many iconic covers ...

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  6 down, and already the top ten is getting tight. Yeah, I suspect that it will be a pretty big ...

• At November 2, 2009, GarBut wrote:

  No slight whatsoever on GL/GA #85, when I say I think #76 is significantly more iconic. (Which is not to ...

• At November 2, 2009, Thok wrote:

  There's a fairly massive dissonance between the Detective 38 and Gl/GA 5 cover, isn't there.

  I don't think I've actually seen ...

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  There's a fairly massive dissonance between the Detective 38 and Gl/GA 5 cover, isn't there.

  Yeah, that's why I went with ...

• At November 2, 2009, Jeff R. wrote:

  I'm wondering just how rich this field is going to end up...I mean, yes, it seems like on the one ...

• At November 2, 2009, Rebis wrote:

  That Brave & Bold cover (the Justice League's first appearance, right?) is all sorts of awesome.

• At November 2, 2009, Mark Black wrote:

  GL/GA 76 won't show up as a nominee? I hope it does. It's such a iconic image.

• At November 2, 2009, sterg wrote:

  I'm with Mark Black. GL/GA is 76 is iconic as all get out...

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  GL/GA 76 won't show up as a nominee?

  I was just explaining why I went with #86 at that particular spot.

  #76 ...

• At November 2, 2009, Rene wrote:

  It always feels strange to me to have Watchmen included in lists of DC Comics greats. Doubly strange for stuff ...

• At November 2, 2009, Monica Dickey wrote:

  I thought the title of this post was Ironic and saw the pic of Aquaman being handled by a squid ...

• At November 3, 2009, JoeMac wrote:

  Here are some of my suggestions for iconic covers:

  Batman #1

  Batman #404

  Batman #407

  Batman #428

  Batman #497

  Detective #27

  Detective #359

  Detective #475

  Detective #476

  Green Lantern (1960) ...

• At November 3, 2009, JoeMac wrote:

  Oops, you already have Detective #27. I forgot.

• At November 3, 2009, Rob M wrote:

  Re: GL/GA 86: Could Hal be any more of a d**k than he's depicted on that cover?

• At November 3, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  True, Rob, but to put it in context, pretty much every issue of that run before that issue had Ollie ...

• At November 3, 2009, danjack wrote:

  hard to get more iconic that these 4!

  DFTBA

27 Comments

• At November 2, 2009, Michael wrote:

  I didn't think much of Death of Superman but that is an awesome cover.

• At November 2, 2009, chad wrote:

  have to go with death of super man for the torn cape swinging around symbols a loss of an icon ...

• At November 2, 2009, MCGroupy wrote:

  Action Comics #1 will win this by far. Maybe they should rename this the 2nd Most Iconic Cover in the ...

• At November 2, 2009, Da Fug wrote:

  "Action Comics #1 will win this by far."

  I wouldn't necessarily give Action #1 a lock on first place given people's ...

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Exactly, everyone gets to decide what they think is "iconic."

  So I think it'll be an interesting crap shoot. And even ...

• At November 2, 2009, Gavin wrote:

  I don't understand why you made pretty much the same post back to back...I must be missing something.

• At November 2, 2009, Scott Harris wrote:

  This is the master list that will house all 90 covers. The other post is just today's 2 entries.

• At November 2, 2009, mattchee wrote:

  So far so good, but I'm a bit shocked at the Superman book is shown already, yet no Action Comics ...

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  So far so good, but I'm a bit shocked at the Superman book is shown already, yet no Action Comics ...

• At November 2, 2009, JJ wrote:

  This will be fun to follow your choices and very difficult to pick a top ten. You will be ...

• At November 2, 2009, Thok wrote:

  I'm hoping people do nominate some War or Western or nonsuperhero covers: the superhero stuff is better remembered, but there ...

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  You will be including Vertigo titles, yes?

  Yes.

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  I feel bad for saying this and not making suggestions, but I'm not sure which covers from those genres would ...

• At November 2, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Maybe we should narrow it down to the "Most Iconic DC Covers Not to Feature Nero Fox, the Jive-Jumping Emperor ...

• At November 2, 2009, Stefan Blitz wrote:

  I'm actually surprised that Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 didn't edge out Superman #75, Green Lantern #85 or Brave and ...

• At November 2, 2009, buttler wrote:

  There's no edging out being done yet, Stefan. Bit by bit this page will show, in no particular order, ...

• At November 3, 2009, MLViola wrote:

  bad math? I thought 4 covers per day were being posted. In 2 days, there have only been 6 covers.

• At November 3, 2009, Thok wrote:

  bad math? I thought 4 covers per day were being posted. In 2 days, there have only been 6 covers.

  Day ...

• At November 3, 2009, Derek wrote:

  Is it just me, or does cover # 9 just scream gay sex?

• At November 3, 2009, onion3000 wrote:

  I hope Detective 27 doesn't win - Bob Kane 'homaged' the crap out of lots of other books to put ...

• At November 3, 2009, Zor-El of Argo wrote:

  I expect Action #1, Superman #1, and Detective #38...not necessarily in that order....will make the top ten, if not top ...

• At November 4, 2009, DWright wrote:

  I'm not sure I understand if these are in order or not but based on the comments I guess they ...

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  Dwight: I'm not sure which comments you're reading, but these ones should clear it up:

  The list is not in ...

• At November 4, 2009, buttler wrote:

  DWright, I mean. Apologies for my own faulty reading.

• At November 4, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  I'm not sure I understand if these are in order or not but based on the comments I guess they ...

• At November 4, 2009, Zor-El of Argo wrote:

  Some of the covers are not particulary iconic all in themselves, but the story within is very iconic. The Adventure ...

• At November 5, 2009, nikki wrote:

  Who says Action is a sure fire winner? DC did this years ago and Crisis 7 was the winner by ...

When I was doing the Top 70 Most Iconic Panels in Marvel Comics History, someone noted that this could easily be termed DC Comics' 75th Anniversary, what with National Allied Publications starting up in 1934 and all. I think that point makes sense, and since that anniversary doesn't seem to be celebrated anywhere else, I suppose we'll have to do the celebrating here, both this month and next!

Starting tomorrow, I'll be posting four iconic DC covers a day until November 23rd.

At that point, you folks will have about a week to pick your Top 10 covers out of the 90 options (I figured I'd give you a few more possible options, make it even more of a mystery as to who makes the list where). I'll tabulate the votes, and on November 30th, I'll begin posting the Top 75 Most Iconic Covers in DC Comics History, to celebrate DC's 75th Anniversary.

In the meantime, feel free to send in suggestions (to bcronin@comicbookresources.com) for what covers I should pick as the ninety choices that folks can choose from.

Here are the first two covers...

Here is a master list of all covers posted so far.

19 Comments

• At November 2, 2009, DanCJ wrote:

  Can't argue with either of these

• At November 2, 2009, Bruce wrote:

  Those are both great. It's interesting that "52" issue 1 is a tribute to the death of superman.

  "Iconic" is probably ...

• At November 2, 2009, gremlinclr wrote:

  Are you including DC imprints Brian?

• At November 2, 2009, BRIAN wrote:

  I THOUGHT NEXT YEAR WAS 75?

  WORLD'S FINEST 195 - COOL COVER!!

  CHEERS,

  B

• At November 2, 2009, The Crazed Spruce wrote:

  If the JLI looking up at the "camera" from Justice League #1 doesn't show up on this list, I'm gonna ...

• At November 2, 2009, Josh wrote:

  Here's a wuick list I came up with:

  -LSH #294

  -Action Comics #1

  -Watchmen #1

  -JL(I) #1

  -Kingdom Come #4

  -Batman #497 (awful artwork, but iconic ...

• At November 2, 2009, Josh wrote:

  Er, quick.

• At November 2, 2009, buttler wrote:

  The question for me is, are you including covers from separate companies whose characters would later be acquired by DC, ...

• At November 2, 2009, Thok wrote:

  I wouldn't include Batman 497, given the cover is ugly (the iconic panel is much better than the cover.)

  Showcase 4, ...

• At November 2, 2009, JoeMac wrote:

  How about TPB covers, like the Killing Joke? Is that a go or no-go on this list?

• At November 2, 2009, Rob Schmidt wrote:

  Is there any doubt that ACTION#1 will be the eventual winner?

• At November 2, 2009, Craig B. wrote:

  All-Star Comics #3. Brave and Bold #28. Justice League of America #100 (Volume 1). Showcase #4, #22. ...

• At November 2, 2009, Dan K wrote:

  "How about TPB covers, like the Killing Joke"

  I believe that was originally released as a single prestige format issue - ...

• At November 2, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  The question for me is, are you including covers from separate companies whose characters would later be acquired by DC, ...

• At November 2, 2009, Eric wrote:

  Thank you for including more than 75; I think it gives us a say in what think is not iconic ...

• At November 2, 2009, Carl wrote:

  Brian,

  Comic companies pick whatever anniversary they think will sell issues. Marvel celebrated 25 in the 1980's (25 Years since ...

• At November 2, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  I was just re-reading a bunch of Swamp Thing, so maybe that's why he's so prevalent on my mind ...

• At November 2, 2009, Roman wrote:

  First two covers of the Dark Knight, JLA #1 (take your pick from which series; they're all pretty iconic).

• At November 3, 2009, Vic De Zen wrote:

  Can't argue with these first two selections. I would definitely put several over the death of Superman cover though. ...

Back to Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier!!

This scene shows Ted Grant (Wildcat) boxing against a younger boxer, presumably meant to be Cassius Clay (who would be about 18 at the time of New Frontier), and showing young Clay putting quite a beating on the champ.

However, this is a guy who is a member of the freakin' Justice Society of America, so he is not going to go down this easily!

Such a beautifully choreographed scene by Cooke!

14 Comments

• At November 2, 2009, kanak wrote:

  saw this movee on hbo last night but they cut this scene

  btw freaking awsome :)

• At November 2, 2009, Rohan Williams wrote:

  This is one of the best scenes in one of the best DC comics of all time, but one thing ...

• At November 2, 2009, Luke J. wrote:

  YES.

  This is one of my absolute favorite scenes in this, possibly any comic. In New Frontier, it's second only ...

• At November 2, 2009, chad wrote:

  loved this scene in the whole book for wild cat proved he may not be a young pup in ...

• At November 2, 2009, Coralskipper wrote:

  As a boxing fan, this is one of my single favorite moments in comics. That said, my one complaint ...

• At November 2, 2009, Ted Kord wrote:

  ONE PUNCH!!

• At November 2, 2009, Dalarsco wrote:

  @Rohan: I'd go so far as to say the entire point was "Look how kickass Wildcat is! He ...

• At November 2, 2009, Paul1963 wrote:

  I always wonder about stories that show Ted Grant still putting people away later and later in life. In ...

• At November 2, 2009, R_M wrote:

  Magnificent! Simply magnificent!

• At November 2, 2009, Roman wrote:

  Boxing is such an awesome sport. Too bad every major boxer nowadays is the antithesis of such class acts like ...

• At November 2, 2009, Dean wrote:

  @Paul1963; Remember, George Foreman became world heavyweight champion in 1994, at the age of 45, so it's not impossible. ...

• At November 2, 2009, benday-dot wrote:

  100% magnificent. And the sublime NF moments continue...

• At November 2, 2009, stealthwise wrote:

  Simply awesome, I understand why they cut it from the movie, but its absence is sorely felt.

• At November 7, 2009, wwk5d wrote:

  Doesn't quite work for me. It's ok, but nothing special.

We're taking a break from our look at Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier for a Halloween look at an especially spooky issue of Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette and John Totleben's Swamp Thing!

Abby Cable is the niece of the evil sorceror Anton Arcane, who had seemingly been killed off awhile back.

Well, Abby's husband Matthew was seemingly killed in a card accident, but he managed to survive, but he wasn't acting the same way. Something was...different about him. He went to work at a company along with some other folks who similarly seemed...off.

Abby soon realizes why this one woman at the company seemed so familiar to her, and that leads her to the realization that perhaps her husband never actually got better from his injuries, and perhaps her husband wasn't her husband after all (although he did have some sort of relation to her)...

(Click on the above picture to enlarge)

That's so awesomely eerie!!!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

33 Comments

• At October 31, 2009, Jakub wrote:

  I don't really understand what's happening in this scene.

• At October 31, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  I tried to elaborate a bit more for ya, Jakub!

• At October 31, 2009, Joe wrote:

  Yeah, I'm a bit confused as to why this is on the list. I just don't know enough about her ...

• At November 1, 2009, Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! wrote:

  Abby Cable is the niece of the evil sorceror Anton Arcane, who had seemingly been killed off awhile back.

  Well, Abby's ...

• At November 1, 2009, kanak wrote:

  ewww...

• At November 1, 2009, Shane wrote:

  I have to confess I hadn't read more than the occasional issue of Swamp Thing, so when you say Abby's ...

• At November 1, 2009, JackKing wrote:

  It's a car accident, but I like the idea of a card accident.

• At November 1, 2009, DanCJ wrote:

  In a comic where someone get impaled by a swordfish anything could happen. (and that's got to be a potential ...

• At November 1, 2009, The Crazed Spruce wrote:

  That moment's already on the list, DanCJ.

  And I knew a guy who took an ace of spades in the chest ...

• At November 1, 2009, Crash-Man wrote:

  Oh shit, incest!

• At November 1, 2009, Lt. Clutch wrote:

  Abby realizes husband Matt Cable is actually her own father, Anton Arcane. Who's also had sex with her, 'cause he's ...

• At November 1, 2009, Lt. Clutch wrote:

  My bad, Arcane is her uncle, not her father, hence the "punchline."

  Still incest, though...

• At November 1, 2009, conflict, and why I oprefer Scooby Doo to Nietzsche and Jane Austen « wrote:

  [...] but I can’t resist another example to illustrate my point. Today’s example of a Great Comicbook Moment is from ...

• At November 1, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  Just makes you feel all sorts of itchy all-over and go right into the shower with a scouring brush.

  heh heh ...

• At November 1, 2009, stealthwise wrote:

  Yeah, this issue was intensely creepy, and the art only further solidifies that, as you can almost get a sense ...

• At November 1, 2009, Michael wrote:

  "Shut your fucking face, unclefucker..."

• At November 1, 2009, Gavin Bell wrote:

  wasn't this the exact moment that made the Comics Code people go 'what the FUCK?' and pull their approval? I'm ...

• At November 1, 2009, Patrick Joseph wrote:

  For anyone that is not getting it:

  She had sex with the animated near-corpse of drunk husband, who was possessed ...

• At November 1, 2009, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote:

  Interesting thing about the comic code on Moore's run on SotST, was that starting with # 31, the comic code ...

• At November 1, 2009, Paul1963 wrote:

  I read this when it first came out. I knew whose "signature [was] scrawled in acid," and whose "NAME ...

• At November 1, 2009, benday-dot wrote:

  She had sex with the animated near-corpse of drunk husband, who was possessed by her Uncle who is a giant ...

• At November 1, 2009, Rob Ocelot wrote:

  Add to that the subtle word/visual play between 'insect' and 'incest' and this comes off even creepier. The comic ...

• At November 1, 2009, Bill Reed wrote:

  Absolutely flippin' terrifying.

• At November 1, 2009, DanCJ wrote:

  That moment's already on the list, DanCJ.

  Ah good. I must have forgotten that had been done.

• At November 1, 2009, Dean wrote:

  Still makes me shudder all these years later ...

• At November 1, 2009, spectreguy wrote:

  Doesn't that "photo" of the spree killer woman in the article look like Barbra Steele in "Black Sunday"?

  spectreguy(who loved that ...

• At November 1, 2009, chad wrote:

  that moment proved that Alan knew how to do swamp thing for the look of pure terror on Abbys face ...

• At November 1, 2009, ken wrote:

  interesting to note that Abby's husband Matt went on to become Matthew the Raven in Sandman

• At November 1, 2009, VichusSmith wrote:

  Some of those images are fucking crazy. I know the moment is when everything comes to a head, but my ...

• At November 1, 2009, Anonymous wrote:

  That's Moore, Bissette, and Totleben carrying away the body on page 15.

• At November 1, 2009, Dalarsco wrote:

  @Ken: Holy shit! I never realized that until this moment! Of course, I've only read the first ...

• At November 2, 2009, dhole wrote:

  One of my favorite moments from the run. Great choice.

  More Moore Swamp Thing!

• At November 6, 2009, Callum wrote:

  Awesome creepy damn moment. -shiver- Oh anf FYI this is still listed as New Frontier #2 (part 2) on ...

Here is the last poll question, a question in honor of Halloween (which happens to be today)!!

Enjoy!

33 Comments

• At October 31, 2009, chad wrote:

  had to go with the crypt kreeper for the other ones seemed to want to be more comedic in ...

• At October 31, 2009, Michael wrote:

  It's such a damn shame that nowadays all they can think of to do with Vampirella is make her a ...

• At October 31, 2009, Julian wrote:

  Old Witch

• At November 1, 2009, Mr. M wrote:

  Abstain - Abel is the only I've actually read as a comic-host, although yes, I know who Vampirella is. ...

• At November 1, 2009, jazzbo wrote:

  It's a virtual tie for me between Cain and the Crypt Keeper, so I gave it to CK since he's ...

• At November 1, 2009, Ramon Schenk wrote:

  What?! No Charlton hosts? No Dr. Graves, Mr. Dedd, no impy, no Wendy the Witch? Is there a hint of ...

• At November 1, 2009, Lt. Clutch wrote:

  TV exposure is likely to help the Crypt Keeper, but I'm voting for the Old Witch.

  Sarcastic comments regarding some ...

• At November 1, 2009, Reno wrote:

  The first horror comic I read when I was a kid was Witching Hour, so I'm going with the three ...

• At November 1, 2009, Billy Batson wrote:

  I hadn't realized Lucien from Sandman was, like Cain and Abel, the host of a DC mystery/horror comic. Wow.

• At November 1, 2009, Sijo wrote:

  What, no Green Glob!? ;)

  I don't care for horror stories, so I voted for Vampi. At least she's sexy! Not ...

• At November 1, 2009, Gavin Bell wrote:

  Cain - dig that 70s hipster-talk, daddio.

• At November 1, 2009, Kirbydotter wrote:

  What about the hosts from Charlton's mystery titles???

  I voted for Abel because he deserves a break the poor guy.

• At November 1, 2009, Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! wrote:

  The Green Glob wasn't a horror host, though, was it? It was more of a gimmick in the stories, ...

• At November 1, 2009, s1rude wrote:

  How to pick between Cain and Abel? I went for the former, cause, you know...murder. And, through the ...

• At November 1, 2009, Ruler Bulon wrote:

  What, no Digger? He fought the West Coast Avengers!

• At November 1, 2009, Kerry Callen wrote:

  I wanted to go with Cain, Abel, AND Eve because of Plop!, but since I can only pick one-- Cain.

• At November 1, 2009, benday-dot wrote:

  I probably would have gone for a Charlton host if the option was there, so instead I picked good old ...

• At November 1, 2009, Black Manta wrote:

  Why wouldn't Phantom Stranger be considered? Were his stories not horror enough? Or because he did participate?

• At November 1, 2009, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Or because he did participate?

  Yep.

• At November 1, 2009, Aaron Thall wrote:

  No way anybody can win this except Crypt Keeper. He's just too well known compared to any of the rest. ...

• At November 1, 2009, MarkAndrew wrote:

  I've only really followed the Charlton books regularly - So the Midnight Philosopher and Arachne.

• At November 1, 2009, buttler wrote:

  In lieu of the Phantom Stranger, I had to go with Destiny. I like 'em grim and mysterious.

• At November 1, 2009, Mary Warner wrote:

  I've only read a handfull of horror books, so I'm really not equipped to judge. Of the ones I've ...

• At November 1, 2009, sgt rawk wrote:

  Vampirella, natch!

• At November 1, 2009, chill bill wrote:

  I remember getting House of Mystery back in the 70s, Cain has always been entertaining.

• At November 1, 2009, Bucky Sinister wrote:

  Had to go with Cain here. The Cryptkeeper was the first, but I actually bought House of Mystery specifically because ...

• At November 1, 2009, Ganky wrote:

  Wow, I used to have that issue of Secrets of Sinister House when I was a kid! Haven't thought about ...

• At November 1, 2009, Dalarsco wrote:

  I wanted to vote Lucien, but I couldn't justify it because I never read him as a horror host. ...

• At November 1, 2009, Andrew Collins wrote:

  The only one of those I've read in any great quantity is House Of Mystery (thank you, Showcase editions) so ...

• At November 1, 2009, Andrew-TLA wrote:

  @Ruler Bulon: Digger was my first thought, too!

• At November 2, 2009, Blackjak wrote:

  Would have voted for the Phantom Stranger... There were a few tales that he merely introduced and didn't participate in...

  No ...

• At November 2, 2009, Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! wrote:

  Hilariously, Destiny was just a Spectre recolor as far as anyone knows. (Yes, that Spectre, who'd ended up demoted ...

• At November 5, 2009, OtakuLad wrote:

  Had to go with The Three Witches. Cynthia is way hotter than Vampirella. And Cain did participate in some HOM ...