Thanks again everyone!

All right, for this week let's try this topic: pipes, the kind that are used for smoking. Your cover should include a person or entity smoking a pipe, or holding a pipe, or even just the darn pipe by itself in non-smoking mode (on a desk, table, counter, or wherever). But it has to be a smoker's pipe. There should be at least one such pipe on the cover; it does not necessarily have to dominate the cover, but it shouldn't be teeny-tiny either. See my cover as a guide/example.

How did I come up with this week's scintillating topic? Glad you--er, I--asked. My inspiration was this comic's cover (below). I figured, well, we've done topics such as snow, hats, winter scenes, etc., so what else could I mine from this awesome cover? 

The Cover Contest Rules:
- 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 February 2014.
- As a courtesy, please include 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 next Tuesday, Feb. 13 2024, beginning at 12:01 am PST and ending at 11:59 am PST.
- Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most 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.

I hope you all enjoy this topic--I know you'll find some great, unusual covers.


My pipe example: Strange Adventures #79 by Gil Kane

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