Covered 365: Day 27

A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era.

Day 27 – New Adventure Comics #27, Artist – Creig Flessel.

This is a post about covers not key issues so I’m with Meli re Tec #27. This is a standout cover and it appeared alongside Action Comics #1 on the news stands of June 1938. Flessel evokes the adventure and the daring that kids were craving, until of course something new and revolutionary came along.

Walter Durajlija
Walter Durajlija

Walter Durajlija is an Overstreet Advisor and Shuster Award winner. He owns Big B Comics in Hamilton Ontario.

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Chris Meli
5 years ago

I gave this one some thought but it didn’t make it into my short list. It gets close to the “not comic booky enough” line, but the over the top adventure/fight aspect keeps it in the camp from my perspective. I think the one thing that killed it for me was the yellow shark. I showed this cover to my son, and he said that at first he thought it was Spider-Man fighting a banana. For me the classic comic cover fish fight is Whiz #19. (There is the Fine cover as well, I forget which one that is, I guess it is the gold standard for fish fights.)

I am still trying to keep up but I have yet to make it to operating much in advance. My #30s:

Astonishing
Fight
Mystery Men
Startling
Vault of Horror