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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 5, 2018 12:51:30 GMT -5
I bought this when it came out:  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 13:30:33 GMT -5
^^^ That's a good one Rob!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 5, 2018 13:35:09 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 5, 2018 13:46:00 GMT -5
 It doesn't QUITE fit the theme, but I was checking out "Navy Action" covers to see if anything fit, and this Bill Everett cover was SO AWESOME, I had to share it. |
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 5, 2018 13:52:47 GMT -5
A small tribute to the late, great Harlan Ellison:  Beautiful cover. |
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 5, 2018 13:56:42 GMT -5
Thankfully, once back at the drawing board, I am quick to locate this lovely cover!  That's a great cover--exploding with the tension of what might happen next. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 5, 2018 14:49:20 GMT -5
This is going to be a very hard contest to pick just one to vote for.
So many great ones here.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jul 5, 2018 16:37:18 GMT -5
 I'm not sure whether it comes from growing up in the 70's, but there's something about "frogmen" stories that always fascinated me. I guess the ocean is, or was, the great unknown, an alien environment that was full of mystery and excitement much like space. Add in the element of man made danger, as well as my teen interest in WW2, and it became the sort of story I gravitated too regardless of interest in the title itself. |
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Post by cellardweller on Jul 5, 2018 21:11:35 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 6, 2018 15:27:36 GMT -5
I'm not sure whether it comes from growing up in the 70's, but there's something about "frogmen" stories that always fascinated me. I guess the ocean is, or was, the great unknown, an alien environment that was full of mystery and excitement much like space. Add in the element of man made danger, as well as my teen interest in WW2, and it became the sort of story I gravitated too regardless of interest in the title itself. Growing up just a couple of years... er... decades before you, I can vouch for the fascination with frogmen when I grew up, too. Not sure what started it, except for the fascination with all things related to World War Two in the post-war years. Sea Hunt, a syndicated TV series with Lloyd Bridges, was a big hit for a while in the late 50s-early 60s. I remember very fondly a great novel called Up Periscope that I read when I was 10 or 11 about a young frogman in the Pacific. Flip through the covers of 50s and early 60s war comics, especially DC, and you'll find a ton of frogmen in hand-to-hand combat, riding torpedoes, and planting explosives. Hillman put out Frogman in the early 50s. DC also had Showcase #3 devoted to them in mid-1956 and the Sea Devils showing up in 1960 (in both their tryout issues and their own comic). Atlas had a few in its Navy Combat series. Dell had an early 60s book called The Frogmen. Tower had UNDERSEA Agent in the mid-60s... kind of a frogman book; Harvey tried it while trying to cash in on the superhero fad during with Piranha. I'm sure there were others. |
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Post by brianf on Jul 6, 2018 19:47:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 19:05:37 GMT -5
I bought this when it came out: love this cover. . but it's been bothering me for days! how did Veronica keep the lipstick so fresh (to leave marks on Archie) with a re-breather in? gahhhh!!!! |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 7, 2018 21:07:49 GMT -5
love this cover. . but it's been bothering me for days! how did Veronica keep the lipstick so fresh (to leave marks on Archie) with a re-breather in? gahhhh!!!! Riverdale has higher-quality lipstick than we do. |
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Post by james on Jul 9, 2018 9:55:56 GMT -5
This was the other cover I was thinking of posting. I'm glad someone did. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 9, 2018 12:23:04 GMT -5
This was the other cover I was thinking of posting. I'm glad someone did. Must be so easy to throw that shield around underwater. |
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