Much of this could not have been possible without the art of Dave Gibbons. Alan Moore created some of the most endearing characters, a complex and deeply thoughtful plot, and an amazing world to take part in. What is generally lauded as the greatest graphic novel of all time is Watchmen. It set the standard for the X-Men comics/art to come and truly set Marvel ahead of the game during it’s initial release.
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The art is the quintessence of ’90s comic book art at the time: energetic, full of action, dynamic movement, exaggerated physique, a fold-out cover it’s got it all. This catapulted Jim Lee into near super-stardom in the comic book industry, which allowed him to gain the clout in order to leave Marvel to help form Image Comics, and later become the premier artists for DC in recent years. To this day, no comic has sold more copies than this particular issue of X-Men at 8.1 million copies sold. Starting out the list is the Jim Lee drawn/penciled cover of X-Men #1. These are 10 of the most legendary and historic comic book covers to have been seen in the industry. For close to a century we’ve seen comics come and go, but these truly historic comic book covers changed the industry and defined the characters they feature within the minds of the readers long after the story within has been told. Much like the previews before a movie, I always look forward to the cover art in the back of the comic. Comic book covers are so popular that often the back of a trade paperback of whatever comic you may be reading is the cover gallery (a collection of the various covers that that specific comic book run featured with it’s initial release month to month).
With comic books however, when half the experience is very heavily defined by it’s art, a comic book cover can be a pretty good judge as to what you can expect to find within it’s contents. The old adage “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover” has been a general rule for most readers since the time books began to have cover art.
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