Best costume designs ever

[Sansomon]

Doctor Fate (Kent V. Nelson)



Hourman (Rick Tyler)



Green Lantern (John Stewart)

[R0NIN]

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The most iconic look. It literally defined the genre and showed what a superhero should look like.
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Wally West has never worn a bad costume. Even his original Kid Flash costume which was just a smaller version of Barry Allen's Flash Costume was great. All the Flash suits have been instant classics and awesome.
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Simple Elegant Awesome

[R0NIN]

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Both of these are great.

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Only real picture I could find of this version of the Red Robin costume that Tim Drake wore.

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IMO Dick Grayson has never worn a bad costume either. But I can see how some people might not like the original disco Nightwing. That said think all the new 52 redesigned are all great too.

[Sansomon]

Batman Beyond (Terry McGinnis)



Power Girl



Hawkman Silver Age Classic

[Nomads1]

I loved the Cris Sprouse redesigns of the Legion. Not all were perfect, but some of them were freaking awsome, getting elements from previous costumes that worked and finding a way to magnify them while providing a unified look for the team (something hard to do with a team this big). Ultra Boy, Apparition, Cosmic Boy, Live Wire, Inferno, Triad, Saturn Girl, Andromeda, Ferro Lad (I can't belive they didn't use this one when they re-introduced Ferro Lad in the Post Zero Hour Legion, prefering to go with a bland generic costume), etc... Fantasticc. Of course, I do think there were some duds. Leviathan, Shrinking Violet and Chameleon (too bland) among them. I wish Sprouse had worked on redesigned versions of latter day Legionnaries, such as Timber Wolf and Wildfire. Even Mon-El (though I didn't mind the M'Onel redesign, I would have liked to have seen Sprouse-s take).

Peace

[Sansomon]

Jade



Troia



Red Robin

[Flash Gordon]

Red Robin

Man, that thing hurts my eyes.

I know art is subjective and all, but this can't possibly be in the same thread as THE FLASH's iconic outfit.

[Sansomon]

Superman (Val-Zod)



Captain Atom (Nathaniel Christopher Adam)



Aquaman (Orin/Arthur Curry)

[Zero Hunter]

As good as the original Dr. Fate costume is I still think the Earth 2 revamp blows it completely out of the water. The shift for the blue to the black and all the extra gold just makes this look awesome.

[Sansomon]

Red Star (Leonid Konstantinovitch Kovar)



Green Lantern (Guy Gardner)



Osíris (Amon Tomaz)

[scary harpy]

Red Robin

I much perfer this to his "Doctor Midnight rip-off" look.

[Sansomon]

Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter)



Mister Miracle (Scott Free)



Animal Man (Buddy Baker)

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Anything from the YJ show or the crisis on two earths DTV, Phil Bourassia is amazing.

[Sansomon]

Rocket Red (Gavril Ivanovich)



Doctor Light ( Kimiyo Hoshi )



Thundermind ( Zou Kang )

[John Aston]

I always found DC to have a better sense of costume design over Marvel. That's not to say Marvel doesn't have good costume designs, they do. Or, it doesn't mean DC has a few stinkers of costumes, they do.

DC used to follow the rule of keeping it simple, which works for two-dimensional art. A lot of what you all are posting are good examples of DC's costume eloquence.