Cover Contest-May 6/May12-2020:"Stripped"

[foxley]

Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

In this case, stripping the title block does almost nothing to impair the cover art:



When I was growing up, my best friend had a whole bunch of comics in this state (mostly Australian reprints). His father worked at the paper mill, and would sometimes salvage these books from the bins of scrap paper that came in to be pulped.

[Iron Maiden]

going back to the days buying comics in bags of 4 for 50 cents

These were being offered for sale in a batch on Heritage

[Javasaurus]

This week's challenge is quite the twist.

[Scott Taylor]

This topic reminds me of my dumpster diving days. Bookstores were required to rip the cover off of magazines before putting them in the dumpster.

Old blue eyes (monster version):



Original, of course:

[Tami]

I worked at a bookstore once as Assistant Manager. Whenever paperback books or magazines were removed either for being out fo date or because they weren't selling and room was needed for new inventory, we'd have to tear off the covers before getting rid of them.

[Nschornhorst]

I worked at a bookstore once as Assistant Manager. Whenever paperback books or magazines were removed either for being out fo date or because they weren't selling and room was needed for new inventory, we'd have to tear off the covers before getting rid of them.

When I was helping to set up a "Books-A-Million" we were doing that to some books that were partially damaged and I got scolded for carelessly tossing them into a box. I'm like-- "WE'RE RETURNING THEM" Bah!

[CaptCleghorn]

OK, it was between this and my cutting up a copy of the Frogmen. And there is no way I could ever stoop to destroying a funny book.

[Greg Hatcher]

[LordMikel]

wow, this one was difficult. But I decided to go for the classic Amazing Fantasy 15.

[CaptCleghorn]

Because:

1) Every week needs some tangential discussion, and
2) I'm curious:

Are these pictures people are finding online, or are you taking pictures of your own books, as I did this week? If these are your own books, then how do you make the pictures show up full-size?

[Tami]

Because:

1) Every week needs some tangential discussion, and
2) I'm curious:

Are these pictures people are finding online, or are you taking pictures of your own books, as I did this week? If these are your own books, then how do you make the pictures show up full-size?

I found my cover entry on ebay.

[MRP]

Because:

1) Every week needs some tangential discussion, and
2) I'm curious:

Are these pictures people are finding online, or are you taking pictures of your own books, as I did this week? If these are your own books, then how do you make the pictures show up full-size?

I found mine using a google image search on remaindered comics, however, when I do take pics of my own to post online, I use an image hosting sight rather than posting them direct from a device/camera and they all come out "full-size" when I post them to message boards and the like. Currently I use Imgur, and I haven't had any issues doing it that way in the couple of years I have used (just don't ask about the Photobucket fiasco from a few years ago that led me to switch to Imgur).

-M

[foxley]

I found mine from an image search. It was originally posted in a discussion forum at CGC Comics.

I used to have some stripped comics in my collection, but I got rid of them years ago.

[Nschornhorst]

I found mine by perusing Google, as I said earlier, I was looking for different ones until I stumbled upon that weird gem.

[kjn]

Because:

1) Every week needs some tangential discussion, and
2) I'm curious:

Are these pictures people are finding online, or are you taking pictures of your own books, as I did this week? If these are your own books, then how do you make the pictures show up full-size?

I always upload to the server. The key to avoid the thumbnail effect is to attach the picture but without using the inline embed code.