Favorite Comic Book Back Covers?

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Back of a Rudolph book

Back of a Rudolph book

 

By the great Rube Grossman. Here's another one...

Oh wow. I'm pretty certain I entered this competition.

Can't imagine what I drew. Would've been terrible I'm sure.

Was this a Marvel UK issue?

First Sam Keith work at Marvel?...

Jack Davis! I thought of these when I saw this thread, but I haven't dug through any boxes with 70s stuff yet. I think he did a few different ads like this

Fantagor #3 Corben & Bode

 

 

whoa!

The back cover of a 50s Sniffy the Pup comic. I always wondered what the rationale was of putting these kinds of ads on any comic, let alone a funny animal comic. A romance comic I can see, they were aimed at females and are full of ads like this, but every other comic was almost solely bought by preteen boys, yet these kinds of ads are in them all the time.

Did advertisers do it with the idea that mom would be picking up juniors comics around the house and see the ad?

Outside of Starslayer #2, this one...Madman #4

This is a winner for me. I remember seeing it when I was maybe 4 not knowing what basketball was. This was my introduction to the sport.

Also the first time I saw Jack Davis' art. Several years before I started reading ECs.

This one will always be a favorite for me. It takes me back to my earliest days as a comic book reader

 

And the disappointment you had when the box arrived in the mail, and the toy soldiers were nothing as cool as the picture. I got the WWII ones myself. Flat, no detail, and lame.

How many different ones where there? I remember seeing:

Roman Soldiers

WWII

Revolutionary War

Civil War

Remember playing this at the arcade in the bowling alley as a kid ...then Atari came out

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Detective Comics # 485 Back Cover

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