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March 30, 2008


FFF Results Post #115—Variety Pack

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Specific Covers You Like, In This Order: One Post-1960 Superhero, One Alt-Comic, One Underground, One Golden Age, One From EC" Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Incredible Hulk #135
2. Hate #1
3. Arcade #4
4. Uncle Sam Quarterly #5
5. Crime Patrol #11

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Josh Blair

* Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #4
* Hickee Vol. 3 #3
* Zap #0
* Jingle Jangle Comics #4
* Vault of Horror 19

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Jim Caldwell

1. Teen Titans 25
2. Love & Rockets 24
3. Young Lust 5
4. Batman 37
5. Frontline Combat 7

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Cole Moore Odell

1. Justice, Inc. #1
2. Or Else #2
3. Air Pirates #1
4. Frankenstein Comics #24
5. Frontline Combat #5

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Joe Schwind

* The One
* THB Circus
* Psychotic Adventures 3
* The Funnies 45
* MAD 2

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Elijah Brubaker

#1 Micronauts #46
#2 eightball #20
#3 yellow dog #17
#4 adventure comics #79
#5 psychoanalysis #3

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Eric Haven

1. Captain America #106
2. Black Hole #1
3. Air Pirates #1
4. More Fun Comics #61
5. Crime SuspenStories #20

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Jamie Coville

1. Savage Dragon #31
2. Eightball #11
3. Bizarre Sex #2, 2nd printing
4. Exposed #1
5. Crime Suspenstories #20

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Scott Dunbier

1) Wonder Woman #199 by Jeff Jones
One of the best covers of the last 40 years.
2) Heartbreak Comics by David Boswell
3) The Collected Cheech Wizard by Vaughn Bode
4) National Comics #26 by Reed Crandall
A stunning patriotic image.
5) Two-Fisted Tales #25 by Harvey Kurtzman
Doesn't get much more powerful than this one.

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John Vest

Here are five comic covers that I like:

1. Captain America # 127 (I love the paranoia in this cover)
2. Love & Rockets Vol. 2 # 17
3. Young Lust # 7
4. Captain Marvel Adventures # 104
5. Shock Suspenstories # 2

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David Jones

1. Spectre #8
2. Love & Rockets 24
3. Zap Comics #3
4. Venus #16
5. Tales from the Crypt #38

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Trevor Ashfield

1. The Hulk annual where he is holding up a stone shaped like a "Hulk" logo
2. The Love & Rockets cover (wraparound?) featuring all the characters dancing
3. Quack # 1 by Frank Brunner featuring his duck pirate character
4. Any of the Human Torch covers by Alex Schomberg (sp?) where the Torch is throwing fireballs at Sub-Mariner
5. The Two-Fisted Tales cover with the Korean War soldier in a snowstorm, by Kurtzman (or was that an issue of Frontline Combat?)

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Chris Beckett

* The Flash #123
* Mr. X #1
* Mean Bitch Thrills
* Captain Marvel Adventures #4
* Frontline Combat #7

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Michael May

1. Alpha Flight, Vol. 1 #3
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 1 #22
3. Young Lust (Co. & Sons) #1
4. G-8 and His Battle Aces #5
5. Piracy #7

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Jamil Thomas

1. Mister Miracle #4
2. RAW #4
3. Witzend #2
4. Walt Disney Comics and Stories Vol 8 No. 6 (Issue 90, March 1948)
5. Mad #5

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Shannon Smith

1. Incredible Hulk Annual #7. (That giant hand and those puny helpless X-Men.)
2. Eightball 23 (So simple. So perfect.)
3. Weirdo #10. (Makes my brain hurt.)
4. Captain America Comics #1 (C'mon, he's punching Hitler.)
5. Incredible Science Fiction #33 (Just wow.)

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Will Pfeifer

1. FLEX MENTALLO #4
2. EIGHTBALL #20
3. WEIRDO #8
4. SUPERMAN #32 ("It tickles!")
5. CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #20

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Dave Knott

* Thor #337
* Love and Rockets #1
* R. Crumbs's LP cover for "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother & the Holding Company
* World's Finest #7
* Shock SuspenStories #6

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Marc Arsenault

* Iron Man #80

* Raw #3

* Tales from the Leather Nun

* Detective Comics #31

* Piracy #6

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Fantastic Four #254
2. Weapon Brown #1
3. Raw #1
4. Green Lama #5
5. Piracy #2

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Michael Grabowski

1. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141 ("Kirby Says 'Don't Ask, JUST BUY IT!")
2. Love & Rockets #31
3. Air Pirates Funnies #2
4. Donald Duck Four Color #199 ("Sheriff of Bullet Valley")
5. Mad #11 (Basil Wolverton -- LIFE parody)

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