# Comic book cover collections

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 3, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-cover-collections/398522 "2007-04-03T03:19:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-cover-collections/398522/1 "2007-04-03T03:19:24Z")

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I’m not a comics enthusiast, really. I see the great cover art, sometimes, and then look inside and see not-as-impressive interior art and some stupid story about one superhero beating up another superhero. Again.

So, I was wondering if they put together collections of the year’s best comic covers, or something. Like the _Dark Horse 2005 Collection_, or whatever.

I haven’t seen anything like that at my local comic shop, or online, but I don’t really know what I’m looking for. I know occasionally individual artists will put out a retrospective of their work, which I wouldn’t mind if it was an artist I admire (like Adam Hughes, who I know hasn’t done one yet). I already own Alex Ross’s “Mythology”.

So, anyone know of anything like that?

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**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-cover-collections/398522/2 "2007-04-03T03:36:18Z")

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There have been collections of the Sandman covers by Dave McKean (“Dust Covers,” I believe it is called) and the Preacher covers by Glenn Fabry, which I hated. Not sure about publisher-specific collections, though. If you like Mike Allred’s stuff (I love it!), he has recently been coming out with a series called The Vault, collecting all of his covers and other artwork, sketches, scripts, notes, photos of licensed merchandise, and so forth.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-cover-collections/398522/3 "2007-04-03T06:22:21Z")

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I used to own a book of covers of the 1940s **Planet Comics** , SF drawings mostly by Lou Fine.

There are some online sites that collect wacky, out-of-context covers, like Superdickery and [Scott Shaw’s Oddball Comics](http://www.oddballcomics.com/).

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-cover-collections/398522/4 "2007-04-03T08:16:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Krokodil]  
There are some online sites that collect wacky, out-of-context covers, like Superdickery and [Scott Shaw’s Oddball Comics](http://www.oddballcomics.com/).  
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That’s really not at all what I am wanting. Entertaining though they are.