First, by Mitchell Hooks.
I know the title refers to kidnapping but it still puts the wrong thoughts in my head.
Next up, this uncredited cover, from the days when movie novelizations were a common thing (are they still?).
My review of the movie is here.
And last, this cover (art uncredited) just because it’s cool.
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Okay, this cover (uncredited art) clearly has science fictional overtones, but even so, it sounds like they’re shooting for realism.
This one? The uncredited art is clearly down-to-Earth.
And this Bill English cover is for a mystery novel but damn, I like it.
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Doesn’t mean they don’t look good. With this one by Frank R. Paul, it’s easy to guess this is some sort of dimensional/spatial gateway.
I’m not at all as clear what this Ed Emshwiller cover is saying about the coming century.
This Dean Ellis is simple enough — the Ice Age people used to predict was coming (though serious scientists favored global warming). Great lineup of writers, too.
This Robert Gibson Jones cover appears to show sabotage but what’s the specfic angle?
But this HW McCauley cover? What’s the bright light in the cockpit he ejected from, or is that an effect of the fire and I’m just misreading it?
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One by the great Bob McGinnis
Next, one by Arnold Kohn
A cool uncredited cover
And finally one by Frank R. Paul.
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This 1960 Robert Abbett cover shows what codes as “beachwear” back then.
I’ve no idea what’s going on on this A. Leslie Ross cover, but I like it.
Art is uncredited. The Seven Sister are seven sex workers caught up in an investigation.
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Sophisticated and tangy? That’s an interesting mix of adjectives. And am I correct to think “wife swiping” is an error — that is, are we reading about wife swapping or adultery?
Art is uncredited.
The way the heat gets worse every year, the days when I thought relaxing outdoors in the summer was fun are gone. I don’t know they’ll ever come back. But I can still appreciate this Nick Cardy cover from 1970.
Contrary to the Love 1970 header, it’s a reprint volume where all but two stories date back to the 1950s. Though maybe with some redrawn art to make them look more contemporary, something DC did with other reprints such as Windy and Willy.
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First an uncredited cover
Next, one by Margaret Brundage
One by Paul Lehr —
And to wrap up, one by Ed Emshwiller
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DC Comics introduced Showcase in the mid-1950s to test out potential new features and see if there was enough interest to launch them in their own book. Starting with Flash’s debut in #4 (cover by Carmine Infantino)—
— it ran an unbroken string of successes until #41 (cover by Lee Elias), when it showcased Tommy Tomorrow, a veteran backup feature, failed to make the jump to headliner.
None of comics’ other tryout books have matched that record. Covers, of course, were a big part of selling comics in the Silver Age (I think they’re way less important now) so here are a few Showcase covers. By Murphy Anderson —
Joe Orlando.
Mike Sekowsky.
And Neal Adams.
Of that quartet, Manhunter 2070 (a year that seems a lot less futuristic now that it did when the issue came out) is the only one that didn’t make it to series.
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First, this uncredited cover. From the cover copy I’d think this is meant to be a casting-couch situation but there’s nothing that sexy about the woman and the man looks bored.
Second, this Barye Phillips cover. It gives me no idea what the story is about or what the title means, nor are the visuals that intriguing in their own right.
Now to the good ones. I don’t know what’s happening on this Richard Powers cover but it’s a lot more interesting.
And to wrap up, Leo and Dianne Dillon.
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