Sunday, January 27, 2013

Comic Covers Sunday: Superboy '94

Newer DC fanboys always comment on how Wally West was the only Flash for them.  Same goes for the dude who replaced Hal Jorndan whatever his name was.  All of this is very interesting when you think about it because no one ever complains about the many, many Robins that Batman has had.  Bats just changes'em out and we all go on.  Another character that no one ever seems to care about is Superboy.  For me, Superboy '94 is the only one that counts. 

Superboy #1, February 1994
Pencils: Tom Grummett
Inks: Karl Kesel
It's not his first appearance but it's a pretty good cover as covers go.  Nothing spectacular but it didn't need to be.



4 more below the break


Superboy #14, April 1995
Pencils: Tom Grummett
Inks: Karl Kesel
Now this takes guts because over half the cover is black!  It works and creates the proper imagery but it's far from ordinary.





Superboy #50 April 1998
Pencils: Tom Grummett
Inks: Karl Kesel
Karl Kesel took over the righting chores and immediately launched into a Supeboy meets Kamandi storyline.  It didn't last long but it was tons of fun and pretty to look at.





Superboy #1,000,000, November 1998
Pencils: Tom Grummett
Inks: Karl Kesel
If you're gonna riff on Kirby's Kamandi then you may as well go all out and do Omac too.  This was great fluffy fun.



Superboy #76, July 2000
Pencils: Tom Grummett
Inks: Karl Kesel
It was a sad day when Superboy's leather jacket got replaced with a t-shirt and tiny shield.  Luckily the shield never stuck and has long since been forgotten.





Superboy #95, February 2002
Pencils/Inks: John McCrea
Although his style isn't really suited for Superheroes, I've always loved this cover from John McCrea. 






That's all for this week.  Enjoy.







2 comments:

  1. Tom Grummett is one of my favorite artists. I've been interested in this series for years, but have yet to collect a decent chunk of it. That 1,000,000 issue looks great. Does Tom do the interiors too for that one?

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  2. Tom did the art in the 1M issue, he did the art on the Kamandi-esque run too. It's a fun series that you can't go wrong with.

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