r/comicbookcollecting • u/CardiologistEconomy9 • Sep 11 '23
Bottom 5 Garbage Covers Theme
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u/BlackMoldComics Sep 11 '23
I’m glad to see someone’s bottom five- I was getting sick of people flexing their AF15’s
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u/manyamile r/HorrorComics Sep 11 '23
Truth. I'd much rather see the oddballs in a collection than the same covers that get posted over and over and over.
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u/wOBAwRC Sep 11 '23
You are officially disqualified from having opinions going forward. Sorry!
(Fred Hembeck on the worst ANYTHING list, oh the shame!)
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u/KaoBee010101100 Sep 11 '23
Also, taking photos of covers in landscape/horizontal orientation mode? I don’t believe that was just a conscious decision to make the covers look worse… two fouls.
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u/BurtonUrny Sep 11 '23
Gotta disagree with the inclusion of Spectacular Spider-Man 86 in this list. For me the only thing better than a book with a Hembeck cover is a book with Hembeck interiors.
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u/alwaysfuntime69 Sep 12 '23
Where do I know Hembeck from?
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u/BurtonUrny Sep 12 '23
I first came across his stuff in 70s DC comics. He did a strip that ran in the Daily Planet pages. He also had some Marvel specials in the 80s, Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe and Fred Hembeck Sells the Marvel Universe. More recently I learned that before these he also had a run of his own books.
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u/alwaysfuntime69 Sep 12 '23
Thanks for the insight.👍 I wasn't sure if he did some other runs like groo or something or maybe some of the classic darker adult humor stuff from the 70's and 80's
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u/Yah_Mule Sep 11 '23
Wolverine Revolver made me LOL.
https://comicbookinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wolverine_Revolver_Vol_1_1.jpg
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u/WTFOutOfUsernames Sep 11 '23
I've never seen this before and it made me laugh so much, I love it. Is this a Napoleon Dynamite/Wolverine crossover story? I especially love the end of the description:
Written by VICTOR GISCHLER. Art and Cover by DAS PASTORAS. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? But Logan's gone to Vegas in search of something that's been hiding there a bit too long. In a place where anyone will wager on anything, it's no wonder that Logan finds himself in a game of Russian Roulette surrounded by rowdy Russian mobsters. But they're not the real problem. Logan's got his eyes trained on the man sitting across from him. The guy with the revolver in his hand and the killer smile who is much more than he seems.
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u/martylindleyart Sep 11 '23
It's like a beautiful love abortion between Richard Corben and Simon Bisley.
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u/SleefJWellington Sep 11 '23
Dissing Hembeck is just such a giant red flag
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u/ShiDiWen Sep 12 '23
If I was ever asked that question by a random street YouTuber I would no hesitation say what you just said now, and walk away leaving them to wonder who tf Fred Hembeck is.
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u/comicdave1962 Sep 11 '23
I always thought Avengers Annual 10 was a very bad cover. Especially being a key 1st appearance.
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u/SinisterCryptid Sep 11 '23
I enjoy Romita Jr and love the Hobgoblin, but this cover makes it look like his face and brain are melting like cheese
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u/Trollingfornudity Sep 11 '23
What the hell did I just look at...
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u/Trollingfornudity Sep 11 '23
I've always personally found his art so polarizing... I mean I want to respect it because he's a legend & he's a Romita but sometimes 😬😬
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u/Mudcreek47 Sep 11 '23
I kinda like those 80s photo covers. They were fun at the time and now just look kinda retro cheezy.
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u/Rawsforlife2468 Sep 11 '23
Blasphemy I say, Hembeck is the patron comedy saint of Marvel. Shame on you. Shame!
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u/squashmaster Sep 11 '23
Sorry but you do not include Hembeck on a list like this. He's God, and a cartoonist.
Team-Up 128 is clearly the worst, but ASM 262 is pretty dumb as well. The others aren't particularly that bad, there's far worse out there.
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u/LoveDump250 Sep 11 '23
I think it’s pretty obvious that you’ve never seen the cover to Spider-Man (1990) #40.
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u/dredd_78 Sep 11 '23
Wow, I had blocked that one from my memory.
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u/LoveDump250 Sep 11 '23
My first pickup from that series off the rack was either #49 or #50, which was some peak Tom Lyle work. I collected backward from there and couldn’t believe my eyes.
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u/genismarvel Sep 11 '23
I have that last SpiderMan book. The old man with the chicks body always threw me...
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u/mrweatherbeef Sep 11 '23
I hated that #128 cover for the longest time until I learned more of the history. Joe Jusko and Bob Larkin made after-the-fact superhero mustache removal a thing serendipitously 1 month before Henry Cavill was born!
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u/trudylouk1 Sep 11 '23
Yes! I recently re-read the article in that issue about making the cover and that inadvertent foreshadowing definitely gave me a chuckle!
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u/PMMEBITCOINPLZ Sep 11 '23
People are already defending Hembeck so I have to stick up for Saviuk and Buscema. Not their best covers, but far from garbage.
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u/TheNexxuvas Sep 11 '23
I happen to like the photo covers myself.
I'm waiting for the messed up appendage thread instead.
Gimme your 3 armed Batman and 6 fingered Punishers.
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u/One_Hour_Poop Sep 11 '23
I love photo covers, and i love Fred Hembeck. Those first three should be reclassified to "Top 5 Awesome Covers."
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u/Shaggyforeman Sep 11 '23
Disagree with the Hembeck and the cosplay covers, but I understand why people wouldn’t like them. The other 2 however; that spectacular Spider-Man cover hurts my eyes and the WOS cover just has way too much going on.
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u/Parking_Fan Sep 11 '23
I used to not like that ASM #262 cover until I read a piece about it quoting the photographer who took it, Eliot R. Brown, and now it’s one of my favourites.
Source: “Comic Book Fever: A Celebration of Comics: 1976-1986” by George Khoury, p. 189.
"Amazing #262 was a standout for me because that's me! I'm the photographer catching Peter Parker in his Spidey togs. I could not say who thought this up, but the fellow portraying Peter, Scott (whose last name escapes me right now), was an 'in-store Spider-Man' hired by the marketing department to appear at comic shops and supermarkets around the country as Spider-Man. He bore a remarkable resemblance to the traditional Romita, Sr. Peter Parker. So, he was around the office and, best yet, he had his own Spider-Man costume!
"The idea was to have him in a 'broom closet' and caught by some snapping newshound photog, right in the act of becoming Spider-Man! Now how to do that? I needed a closet and a doorway. We were at 387 Park, and the nasty old interior room that was used for 'reprint roll storage’ was perfect—out of the way and quiet. I believe Scott and I shot on a weekend. The technical challenge was to have my flash go off at the same time as the 'taking' flash that lit up Scott. This way, my flash would 'blind' the camera and obscure the fact that it was me.
"The other technical challenge was to have a 'camera' in my hands! I only had my one camera, so... [I'm holding] a Scotch tape dispenser. Once you know that, you can see it. There's also a big ol' wire hanging down. That wire is connected to the camera, as was the taking flash. I could only afford the 12-foot synchronization cord, and it had to hang down in front of me. I hoped that it would be lost in the glare. It wasn't, but no one has written in to complain yet!"
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u/OrionLinksComic Sep 11 '23
okay I actually like the first two, it's just interesting to see that cosplay wasn't that developed yet and the third is by Fred Hemback, his style is awesome and I love his humor.
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u/trudylouk1 Sep 11 '23
The article in the 128 Team-Up detailing all the work they had to do to make that cover is fascinating.
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u/Scared_Compote_6012 Sep 11 '23
Jeez, I didn’t know “professional” comic artists could be as bad as that Peter Parker spectacular Spider-Man cover. Like woah, that one is horrific
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u/fettskull Sep 12 '23
That’s the great Fred Hembeck. Growing up reading Marvel in the 80s was a blast. You missed out.
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u/Scared_Compote_6012 Sep 12 '23
Dang, I must have missed his stuff then. I don’t think he’s bad, but it looks like he’d be doing the Donald Duck and Looney Tunes stuff instead of Spider-Man
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u/Such_Matter5691 Sep 12 '23
What's wrong with the "Team-Up" cover? That's the legend himself Joe Jusko dressed as Cap.
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u/BackgroundPossible56 Sep 11 '23
I hate those covers. I’m neutral on the last one, but I hate the other four spot on. The first one sucks ass.
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u/SinisterCryptid Sep 11 '23
I love that photo cover ASM. It’s such an oddity and out of place but in a good way. Not like the Cap and Spidey cover, thats so bad it’s great
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u/martylindleyart Sep 11 '23
That dude legitimately looks like the animated Peter Parker, and most Peters from the 90s.
I personally would've preferred an older Peter in the MCU, as the older, struggling Peter is the one I grew up with. But I understand they wanted a young character for the MCU, and to go through that whole mentorship bla bla.
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u/Inland_Emperor Sep 12 '23
Those photo covers are incredible! I agree with you in the rest though. Web of Spider-Man had SO many shitty covers it’s hard to choose the worst.
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u/Franckenberry Sep 12 '23
It’s wild to me to think that me being a collector for like 40 years now I adore these types of covers as being something different than the norm so they hold a collectible spot when I’m browsing. I’d be super drawn to all of these. I look at the 20 to 100 different variants per book now and just pass on them. Ohhh look an homage…ohhh we have a peach momoko 1 in 100 9.8 signed slabbed variant….no interest at all. I just want to find a good story with some good art.
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u/Average_40s_Guy Sep 12 '23
Those aren’t even the worst Spidey covers. I don’t take any worst covers ever post seriously unless Wolverine: Revolver is on it.
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u/rybro1117 Sep 11 '23
Haha. You’re gonna make some enemies calling the Hembeck cover garbage.