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

[Javasaurus]

Congratulations on the win, Scott Taylor!

Thanks for the vote Ravin Ray!

[Nschornhorst]

Congratulations, Scott Taylor!

Also, thank you for the kind votes, Tami and Riv86672!

[Kirby101]

Great win Scott! Talk about iconic covers! Even with the top removed.

[CaptCleghorn]

Congratulations to Scott Taylor for a fantastic and marvelous cover which went with arguably the greatest done-in-one the FF has ever had.

And now, what has the captain learned this week in the peak of the week. Before he falls back into a get off my lawn rant, the captain wants to remind all you kids that the 3/4 cover (as they were often known) was a way for many of us to obtain older books that were too expensive in better condition. Thus, my copy of FF 13, still needing to be upgraded. The 3/4 books were a primitive version of thew black market, seeing as they "fell off the truck". They are still out there and like this contest, allow us to learn a little something about these funny books we read.

[Iron Maiden]

Congratulation Scott Taylor

Congratulations to Scott Taylor for a fantastic and marvelous cover which went with arguably the greatest done-in-one the FF has ever had.

And now, what has the captain learned this week in the peak of the week. Before he falls back into a get off my lawn rant, the captain wants to remind all you kids that the 3/4 cover (as they were often known) was a way for many of us to obtain older books that were too expensive in better condition. Thus, my copy of FF 13, still needing to be upgraded. The 3/4 books were a primitive version of thew black market, seeing as they "fell off the truck". They are still out there and like this contest, allow us to learn a little something about these funny books we read.

And some collectors used to call it getting a reader version of a more valuable comic. It took a long time before the industry decided to publish collected versions. But they did have the reprint titles like Marvel's Collectors Items Classics, which reprinted Stan & Jack's FF issues. Marvel Tales reprinted the Amazing Spider-Man. The first issue of that was a real extravaganza I think my brother still has that one boxed away in the "family collection"

[nx01a]

Yay, Scott!

[Scott Taylor]

Oh my, this I did not expect, what a pleasant surprise to find out! Sorry, I had been afk for a while between yesterday and today.

Thank you for the votes nx01a, Kirby101, Shalla Bal, ed2962, Rob Allen and Iron Maiden! I got the Doom vote! And thank you WestPhillyPunisher for a great context.

New contest up shortly.

[Ajax_X]

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all the stories of comic days gone by. The stories for the cover image mash ups.
All the searchers and posters for all their contributions , I had fun!