Cover Contest 9/23-9/29: Fire and Ice

[MRP]

Scott Taylor

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[icctrombone]

babyblob for a nice Superman cover.

[Jack Dracula]

Scott Taylor

[Rob Allen]

Scott Taylor

[Riv86672]

Iron Maiden

One of the best FF covers I’ve ever seen.

[Kai "the spy"]

ChadH gets my vote.

[Ravin' Ray]

The votes are in and the tally is as follows:

1 vote: Speed Force League Unlimited, worstblogever, Kirby101, and ChadH
2 votes: CaptCleghorn, babyblob, Tami, Iron Maiden
4 votes: Shalla Bal

And our winner with 5 votes is:

SCOTT TAYLOR

Congratulations Scott Taylor, for a cover of a series I had long forgotten. And thanks to everyone who participated, I was a wee bit surprised there was no Hot Stuff cover from Harvey Comics. Superman, as usual, manages to show up (is there a contest he doesn't show up in?), and there were some surprise covers too.

I was trying to find that panel from JLA/Avengers #4 which had all the heroes and villains with fire and ice powers battling it out, but couldn't find just that panel by itself.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Congrats to Scott!

[foxley]

Not that it changes the final result, but Surf got 2 votes.

And congratulations to Scott.

Meanwhile, my attempt to appeal the youth vote appears to have failed. Back to the drawing board.

[Ravin' Ray]

Not that it changes the final result, but Surf got 2 votes.

My bad, I counted them but didn't type it here.

[Nschornhorst]

Congratulations, Scott Taylor!

[kjn]

Meanwhile, my attempt to appeal the youth vote appears to have failed. Back to the drawing board.

There is a youth vote here?

Anyway, congratulations to Scott Taylor!

[Kirby101]

Congrats to Scott T. I know that John is credited, but there is a lot of Marie in that cover, especially the Kull figure.

[CaptCleghorn]

Congratulations to Scott taylor for a a Marvelous cover showing the Howard back-up character fighting an amazingly and yet oddly offputting cover. It's very rare that marvel showed an icy figure being actually transparent. Seeing the skeleton underneath was creepy. It is a cover I did NOT pay enough attention to during voting.

The Peak of the Week where the captain rambles on about what he has learned this contest happens now. Fire and Ice are two opposing forces of nature. However, an extraordinary number of these covers showed those opposing forces actually bonding together in opposition to our heroes. Well, sometimes just with the power sets, but still, it's a big deal. During the earlier days, I wonder if that imagery was noted by youthful readers as it may have been by the writers churning out stores. Forces of nature, or cool bad guy powers? Go reread your old stuff with a new mind.

Thanks go to Nschornhorst and the previously mentioned Scott Taylor for their much appreciated votes.

[CaptCleghorn]

There is a youth vote here?

There was a youth vote. Then I turned 60.