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Paolo Rivera’s wonderful art for a variant cover for 2018’s Amazing Spider-Man #15. With his art, I not only believe in the superheroes he’s depicting, but also in world they’re shown as being part of. There’s nothing generic about his New York City, for example. It feels so real
Margot Lane & Lamont Cranston, standing before a painting of the latter’s alter ego The Shadow, by Mike Kaluta, as used for the cover of 1981’s The Comics Times #5.
Sitting in the Bank Holiday sun reading stories from long ago.
Spectators at the Theatre, by Hippolyte Michaud, between 1840 & 1888.
Jimmy Olsen, colour guide cell, for 1968’s The Batman Superman Hour from Filmation. Bless him. The counter-culture just passed him by.
The Old Ships Draw to Home Again, by Jonas Lie, 1920.
Drawing by Max Fleischer featuring Metropolis centred on the Daily Planet for 1941’s epochal Superman cartoons.
James McMullan’s painted illustrations that accompanied Nik Cohn’s Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night in June 7th 1976’s issue of New York Magazine. Cohn’s story of White working class disco clubs was fiction sold as reportage, but McMullam did his homework & it shows.
1998 DC Comics promo poster by Val Semeiks & Prentis Rollins et al for the Grant Morrison-piloted DC One Million crossover. Book-for-book, I can’t think a company comics event that can match it.