’75-’88, comic book art and covers

Wonder Woman N°240. 1978. Garcia Lopez et Dick Giordano.

Welcome, vintage mates, to another selection of comic book art, covers and ads. In this instalment we span the years 1975 to 1988 and feature a DC-heavy dose of amazing cover work from the likes of Garcia Lopez, Dick Giordano, Dan Jurgens, Karl Kezel, Ross Andru, Jan Duursema and Jack Kirby, along with DC adverts for Stick-ons, medallions and Superman: The Movie.

As always, thanks for looking 🙂

Tales of the Legion of Superheroes N°321. 1985. Dan Jurgens et Karl Kezel.

Superman N°334. 1979. Ross Andru and Dick Giordano.

The Super Friends N°45. 1981. Schaffenberger et Smith.

Atlas N°1. 1975. Jack Kirby.

Power Girl. 1978.

Arion N°6. 1983. Jan Duursema.

Superman Double Dynamite. 1979.

Superman: The Movie. 1979.

Superman 50th birthday medallion. 1988.

Wonder Woman newspaper strip. 1979.

DC Super-hero Stick-ons. 1979.

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25 thoughts on “’75-’88, comic book art and covers”

Agree with @spanishwoods – Awesome. I love Power Girl – was that a short-lived series?

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on May 3, 2019 at 13:42 said:

I don’t know any of her stories but I read she’s been going since the 1970s and is some sort of alternative reality cousin of Superman, with his same powers.

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Love, love the Wonder Woman opener, Red Dawn and Power Girl covers. They’re fabulous. Thank you for featuring super women!

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on May 1, 2019 at 07:28 said:

I loved doing that. I was dead lucky in that some recent lots I picked up had lots of super women in them, plus my active search for Wonder Woman print ads for a special WW post I’m working on 🙂

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- Resa on May 3, 2019 at 19:46 said:
  
  Ohhh, that sounds interesting! 😀
  
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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on May 3, 2019 at 21:53 said:
  
  Thanks Resa. She’s not as easy as I thought to track down, especially stuff from the Lynda Carter days. Many of the toy ads I already have of her are with Superman and Batman, but I wanted more of her alone. Keep searching. It’s a slow build post for me 🙂
  
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Some great covers here. I love the Wonder Woman and Superman covers (Opticus stole his eyes!?!?).

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 27, 2019 at 10:27 said:

Thanks J. I’ve yet to read that Superman comic – itching to find out who Opticus is and why he nicked SM’s eyes!
That Wonder Woman cover is absolutely brilliant isn’t it. Chilling in that you only see her image from the point of view of the ‘wanted poster’ … and that gun… you know her life is in peril!

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- J. on April 29, 2019 at 19:26 said:
  
  The Wonder Woman cover is definitely my favourite here. Definitely does a great job of building suspense and sense of danger.
  
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Oh these are so awesome. Thanks for sharing!

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 25, 2019 at 22:40 said:

Thanks spanish. I enjoyed putting this post together.

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RE-posted on twitter @trefology

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 23, 2019 at 11:27 said:

Thanks for the Tweet, Tref 🙂

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Great vintage comic covers! I always think they did way better covers back then than they do now. Ah, for the days when comics only cost 12p! 🙂

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 22:28 said:

12p yes! Pocket money seemed to go a long way back then.

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- Paul Bowler on April 23, 2019 at 15:26 said:
  
  LOL,, it sure did 🙂
  
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Nice choices TVTA! I like that Wonder Woman cover:) I don’t know how you work out inflation but a DC comic cost only 75 cents in 1985. 30 years later they range from $3.99 to $4.99. It’s an expensive hobby these days, but I still can’t escape it;)

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:24 said:

Thanks Gray! The prices are crazy aren’t they. I have a few ideas why: it could be that they were a lot cheaper to produce back then… In many cases the print and paper quality are far inferior to today’s standards. There also seems to be more printed adverts (good for me!) compared to now, which would have gone a long way to keeping the prices low. Maybe there’s even an element of cost in competing against today’s ‘cheaper’ digital comics? Or is it simply that the market is so much in bloom with superheroes lately that companies know they can charge what they like?

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Fantastic post. Some of these covers sucked me in…then disappointed me. I remember some of the Blackhawk covers….and then the story inside wasn’t like that. Oh well, the covers were probably drawn by someone else and done based on the original idea of the story.

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:11 said:

Cheers Anthony. Yes, many covers were done by an artist different to the story content. A kind of snapshot of what could be expected I suppose. But as 80smetalman pointed out earlier, sometimes the cover scene was like nothing that actually happened inside.

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Love these!

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:07 said:

Thanks Hawaii! I’ve another two batches of DC covers and content to upload soon as well.

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What has always amused me about super hero comics is that the cover of the comic shows the super hero getting his/her ass kicked but when you read it, nothing like that ever happens in the story.

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Anthony on April 22, 2019 at 01:34 said:

You are so right.

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The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:05 said:

Lol. That happens a lot actually.

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wibiwonder on May 2, 2019 at 22:24 said:

Agree with @spanishwoods – Awesome. I love Power Girl – was that a short-lived series?

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on May 3, 2019 at 13:42 said:
  
  I don’t know any of her stories but I read she’s been going since the 1970s and is some sort of alternative reality cousin of Superman, with his same powers.
  
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Resa on April 28, 2019 at 22:17 said:

Love, love the Wonder Woman opener, Red Dawn and Power Girl covers. They’re fabulous. Thank you for featuring super women!

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on May 1, 2019 at 07:28 said:
  
  I loved doing that. I was dead lucky in that some recent lots I picked up had lots of super women in them, plus my active search for Wonder Woman print ads for a special WW post I’m working on 🙂
  
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  - Resa on May 3, 2019 at 19:46 said:
    
    Ohhh, that sounds interesting! 😀
    
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  - The Vintage Toy Advertiser on May 3, 2019 at 21:53 said:
    
    Thanks Resa. She’s not as easy as I thought to track down, especially stuff from the Lynda Carter days. Many of the toy ads I already have of her are with Superman and Batman, but I wanted more of her alone. Keep searching. It’s a slow build post for me 🙂
    
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J. on April 26, 2019 at 23:07 said:

Some great covers here. I love the Wonder Woman and Superman covers (Opticus stole his eyes!?!?).

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 27, 2019 at 10:27 said:
  
  Thanks J. I’ve yet to read that Superman comic – itching to find out who Opticus is and why he nicked SM’s eyes!
  That Wonder Woman cover is absolutely brilliant isn’t it. Chilling in that you only see her image from the point of view of the ‘wanted poster’ … and that gun… you know her life is in peril!
  
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  - J. on April 29, 2019 at 19:26 said:
    
    The Wonder Woman cover is definitely my favourite here. Definitely does a great job of building suspense and sense of danger.
    
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spanishwoods on April 24, 2019 at 15:15 said:

Oh these are so awesome. Thanks for sharing!

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 25, 2019 at 22:40 said:
  
  Thanks spanish. I enjoyed putting this post together.
  
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tref on April 22, 2019 at 22:45 said:

RE-posted on twitter @trefology

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 23, 2019 at 11:27 said:
  
  Thanks for the Tweet, Tref 🙂
  
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Paul Bowler on April 22, 2019 at 20:21 said:

Great vintage comic covers! I always think they did way better covers back then than they do now. Ah, for the days when comics only cost 12p! 🙂

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 22:28 said:
  
  12p yes! Pocket money seemed to go a long way back then.
  
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  - Paul Bowler on April 23, 2019 at 15:26 said:
    
    LOL,, it sure did 🙂
    
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graycope14 on April 22, 2019 at 02:40 said:

Nice choices TVTA! I like that Wonder Woman cover:) I don’t know how you work out inflation but a DC comic cost only 75 cents in 1985. 30 years later they range from $3.99 to $4.99. It’s an expensive hobby these days, but I still can’t escape it;)

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:24 said:
  
  Thanks Gray! The prices are crazy aren’t they. I have a few ideas why: it could be that they were a lot cheaper to produce back then… In many cases the print and paper quality are far inferior to today’s standards. There also seems to be more printed adverts (good for me!) compared to now, which would have gone a long way to keeping the prices low. Maybe there’s even an element of cost in competing against today’s ‘cheaper’ digital comics? Or is it simply that the market is so much in bloom with superheroes lately that companies know they can charge what they like?
  
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Anthony on April 22, 2019 at 01:36 said:

Fantastic post. Some of these covers sucked me in…then disappointed me. I remember some of the Blackhawk covers….and then the story inside wasn’t like that. Oh well, the covers were probably drawn by someone else and done based on the original idea of the story.

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:11 said:
  
  Cheers Anthony. Yes, many covers were done by an artist different to the story content. A kind of snapshot of what could be expected I suppose. But as 80smetalman pointed out earlier, sometimes the cover scene was like nothing that actually happened inside.
  
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Superman Collector in Hawaii on April 21, 2019 at 22:47 said:

Love these!

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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:07 said:
  
  Thanks Hawaii! I’ve another two batches of DC covers and content to upload soon as well.
  
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80smetalman on April 21, 2019 at 21:35 said:

What has always amused me about super hero comics is that the cover of the comic shows the super hero getting his/her ass kicked but when you read it, nothing like that ever happens in the story.

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- Anthony on April 22, 2019 at 01:34 said:
  
  You are so right.
  
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- The Vintage Toy Advertiser on April 22, 2019 at 12:05 said:
  
  Lol. That happens a lot actually.
  
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