This week’s contest is The Big 80s! Not just any old cover published during the 80s, but the crazy excess of the decade. Covers that just scream out “1980s!” from the neon-capped rooftops. To give an analogy in a musical context, Billy Joel's album An Innocent Man was released in 1983, but looking at the cover it could have been released pretty much any time in the last 50+ years, whereas Duran Duran's Rio cover is unmistakably a 1980s production. So bring those insane covers and artistic disasters!

If anyone is wondering, a cover does not have to be exactly from 1980-1989, as long as it has that 80s aesthetic. For example, Talking Heads were putting out music in the late 70s that sounded very 80s.

To demonstrate, what could be more 80s than a supervillain dressed like a background extra from "Radio Ga Ga" with imitation New Wave hair, fighting the heroes with a keytar?



Justice League of America #237 April 1985

The Cover Contest Constitution:

- Post one, and only one, classic cover that fits the theme of the contest.

- Cover must be from a published comic book or collected volume published before 10 November 2011.

- Please include also the title and the issue number of the comic in case some posters cannot see your image.

- Covers must be posted before voting begins.

- Voting takes place on Tuesday, 9 November 2021, beginning at 12:01am PST and ending at 11:59am PST.

- Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most.

- Put the name of your choice in bold.

- The winner of the contest is the entrant with the most votes after the voting period ends.

- The winner chooses the theme for the next week's contest.

- If you don't think the cover fits the theme, don't vote for it; please don't post disparaging remarks about it.

- If a cover is more recent than the classic time frame, kindly point it out to the poster, who may then choose an alternate before voting begins.