Western comic book covers

See more ideas about western comics, comic covers and comic book covers. A successfully designed book cover will convey the tone of your book, will whisper hints without giving it all away, and will excite readers into actually opening up the book and reading. And other comic book legends revealed and why does batman carry shark repellent. Plus, we also hold a large and growing selection of comic strips and pulp fiction. Now, its time to present 26 of the absolute best comic book covers of all time. Crime and justice detective story magazine sept 1956 v1 no1. One is sure that powwow smith would not have appeared regularly on the cover of western comics, unless his appearance there boosted sales. Each cover is original and only sold to one author. All comic book covers were designed to increase sales of the magazines, and the powwow smith covers were probably no exception. In 1949, magazine enterprises approached columbia pictures about publishing a durango kid comic book. Who better than ross to cover the ethereal nature of the dark knight before his death. Here you can find over 23,000 scans of vintage comic book covers, all unwatermarked and yours for the taking. Get the best deals on golden age westerns comics when you shop the largest online selection at. Two regular titles started in february, 1937 over a year before superman ushered in the superhero age cheslercentaur publications star ranger and comics magazines companys western picture stories, which featured the artwork of the legendary will eisner.

This week we feature the marvelatlas western titles. Here at lit hub, we unpacked the biggest book cover trend of the year, compared us covers to their uk counterparts, and remembered the best and worst covers of lolita as well as edward goreys own cover designs. Mighty marvel western comic book cover photos, scans. After ending their arrangement with dell in 1962, western began their own line of newsstand comics, again utilizing their many licences, under the brand name gold key. Citing robert overstreets comic book price guide, lash larue western began publication in 1949 and ran for 46 issues, the last being dated january, 1954. Classics illustrated, which actually began life as classic comics, was a comic book series that took classic literary works such as moby dick, robinson crusoe and the three musketeers and adapted the storylines into comic panels ideal for young readers the series was the brain child of albert kanter, a russianborn publisher who oversaw the series from its first issue in 1941 until. Also known as whitman comics, gold key operated from 1962 to 1984. Westerns have been a staple genre of comic books with some ups and downs since almost the beginning of the medium. Western comic by arturo del castillo and ray collins. Gold key comics was an imprint of american company western publishing, created for comic books distributed to newsstands.

A common comicbook cover format displays the issue number, date, price and publisher along with an illustration and cover copy that may include a storys title. I can only imagine years of pining after superman without any success have finally snapped her fragile mind and caused her to abduct a native baby and adopt a native persona herself. Want to view a bunch of comic book covers in fairly large size. Tex morgan began in august 48 and ran for nine issues through february 1950. By delivering the weekly list of new releases, along with news concerning current and future products available in local and online comic book shops, we enable consumers to meet their goals more effectively. Most of the dellproduced comics done for western publishing during this period were under the. We are temporarily closed but will reopen monday, april 20th, and begin accepting orders again friday april 17th. A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that.

The company, headed by publisher vincent sullivan, and editor raymond krank, was to become, quality wise, one of the finest in the field. Lets look and learn from 50 fascinating book cover designs. Book riot has talked about the best comic book artists working today and what makes a great cover in general. Centaur publications is credited with creating the first standalone western comics titles launching both star ranger and western picture stories with cover dates of february 1937. Powerful, startling and masterfully drawn and it still freaks me out. Sex has some of the best covers that youll see from any comic book series. The covers always lie trope as used in popular culture. Unless lois lane happened to get freakydeaky with a native american at some point in the comics and had a baby real quick, its safe to say that she has stolen someones baby. The most common custom comic book material is ceramic. Comic book plus free and legal public domain books. How the biggest name in screen cowboys wound up at toby press in 49 rather than dell or fawcett, the two major comic book companies who were snagging the rights to most of our cowboy heroes, is completely unknown, but it was a significant coup for toby.

Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use to track and manage your comic collection. The characters nickname, real name if known, identity, primary setting, the comic book and issue number of their first appearance, and an artist or artists associated with the character are. Adobe sparks free online book cover generator helps you easily create your own custom book covers that attract readers, no design skills necessary. The rawhide kid stars in the guns of jasker jelko script by stan lee, pencils by jack kirby, inks by dick ayers. We are the original and still the premier site to read and download golden and silver age comic books.

Classics illustrated is an american comic bookmagazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as les miserables, moby dick, hamlet, and the iliad. The hitops video release of it was a short summer, charlie brown depicts charlie brown, snoopy, and the gang at the beach on the front and back covers, but the special itself involves the characters going to summer camp. The rifleman number 10 western comic book by lou diamond. In 1961, dell issued two atypical, comicbook like paperbacks without coloring, with cardboard covers and heavierweight paper. Email it to me for good karma and my sincere appreciation crime case book jan 1954 v1 no1. Pulp fiction and comic strips had a massive readership. Dell comics was the comic book publishing arm of dell publishing, which got its start in pulp. Western comics and books page 1 of 5 comic book plus. See more ideas about western comics, comic books and comics. Early marvel westernscomic book cowboys, by boyd magers.

Then, of course, you notice the story, which is an exploration of sex through the eyes of a retired superhero. Marvel even went so far as to hire male models, dress them in typical bwestern garb and create photo covers of these faux film stars in order to fool unsuspecting readers. Centaur publications is credited with creating the first standalone western comics titles launching both star ranger and western picture stories with cover. Because i am terrible at ranking things, ive just put them in chronological order. Ever since comic books first came to be, some writers and artists have sought to use the medium as a vehicle to get across messages draped in social commentary. Ill keep posting new covers whenever i get a chance, but whats for sure is that the selfinflicted rythm of daily posts for the most part of the last three years is not coming back.

Complete and intact comic book with no pages missing and nothing clipped out. Thanks very much everyone for your comments and your interest. Collection of premade book covers for thriller, crime, mystery and suspense genres. With ebay, you dont have to choose sides, because we have plenty of any option. Over the next few months ill be removing all advertising on the site, but the good news is. Mighty marvel western comic books covers, scans of mighty marvel western comic books. This week we feature the marvelatlas western titles western gunfighters 1956, western outlaws, and western outlaws and sheriffs. Comic book gimmick covers are usually seen as one of the perils of the speculation boom, but these are the best and most inventive ever made. I believe mark hughes has captured the evergreen covers very well but some covers are still missing. The term is generally associated with an american comic books genre published from the late 1940s through the 1950s though the genre had continuing popularity. A comic book is only as good as its cover and these groundbreaking. Having said that, this doesnt mean that im pulling the plug on i love comic covers. House of mystery and house of secrets and these covers showcased bernis best comic work outside of creepy and eerie magazine. Most comic book lovers pledge allegiance to either dc comicsfeaturing that famous alien from krypton and aquaman, among many othersor marvel comics, which gave us the webslinging spiderman, the new mutants and patriotic captain america.

Western gunfighters 1956, western outlaws, and western outlaws and sheriffs. See more ideas about western comics, comic covers and vintage comics. Tomahawk comic books covers, scans of tomahawk comic books. Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the american old west frontier usually anywhere west of the mississippi river and typically set during the late nineteenth century. A year earlier, the publisher had had success with a similar endeavor with western star tim holt. Email it to me for good karma and my sincere appreciation crime detective dec 1940. Jan 12, 2018 a fantastic collection of a4 glossy prints taken from beautiful vintage western comic covers dating from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. The following list contains western, cowboy, cowgirl, native american and related characters that have appeared in comic books published by dc comics. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about custom comic book.

Welcome to comic book plus, the site where every day is party day. Seller of bronze and silver age marvel dc comics old comic books, comic book covers. It was probably clear that kids wanted to read exciting stories about indians. The grand comics database gcd is a nonprofit, internetbased organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Design book cover for free with online templates adobe spark. Books george salters covers giant books gold medal books graphic books greatest book covers greatest novels of all time handi books harmony books hillman books hip hop books. Dc comic bookscomic book artistscomic book coversdc comicsbatman comics. Matt slade, gunfighter stars in gun feud from kid slade 8. Many of westerns comic products were packaged for the book market under this golden press division. Gold key comics was created in 1962, when its parent company western publishing switched to inhouse publishing rather than packaging content for branding. Twogun kid stars in the gunfighter script by lee, art by joe maneely. Gold keys new york office had two editors in 1968, one of whom was paul kuhn. A cover gallery for the comic book allstar western comic book covers, comic.