The painted covers for Dell/Gold Key titles were often outstanding, especially because most comic covers at the time weren’t painted. As a kid, I loved Turok, Son of Stone (dinosaurs, cavemen, and American Indians. And tell me – what other title treated American Indian characters as not only the heroes, but made them completely sympathetic and competent Good Guys? Frontier and Western comics like DC’s Tomahawk sometimes gave them their due, but they were generally antagonists, and outfought and out-thought by the White heroes)
I also liked the Magnus, Robot Fighter covers. The science fiction was a bit out of date by then, but the covers were masterpieces of nostalgia, even then.
I wasn’t a fan of the rebooted series many years later. Or of their covers.
They covers aren’t in the same class, but I do like them and the series itself – Phil Foglio’s 4-issue run of Angel and the Ape from the 1990s
For one month, all the DC superhero comics had an extreme closeup of the hero’s face. Small title off to the side, so it was just Big BatGuy In Yo’ Face.
Man, did they look great on the wall of comic book shops. Even the places that didn’t usually display just DC heroes in one spot that month.
Finally figured out which: December '97. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a shot of them displayed, but most of the art showed up in this poster:
That reminded me of a false memory -if that makes sense. I could have sworn that Marvel had a whole month of titles that had all of the covers and interiors layed out in landscape or sideways orientation. Turns out it was just Fantastic Four 282 from March, 1983.
