Ellery uses his mastery of color to amazing effect here!  A fabulous piece of art!

It's strange to call the embodiment of death beautiful, but Ellery's work here is absolutely gorgeous!

Beautiful!  Adriana is immensely talented.

And none of these Jimmys has learned to stop calling Perry White "Chief".

Mignola did wonderful work on this series.  He gave Krypton an otherworldly feel that took Byrne's redesign of the world to the next level. 

Both characters are beautifully done here, but I also need to point out how impressive the building in the background looks.  Nowlan outdid himself. 

Bradshaw has the amazing talent to cram a ton of detail into every spot on the page while not making the overall work look too crowded.  An excellent cover by an artist whose stuff is so much fun to look at.

Marvin deserved better!  But he'll live in our memories forever thanks to the scene interpreted so excellently in this piece of art.

I truly felt bad for the Black Knight during this story.  I started reading Avengers shortly after he had rejoined the team, so for me he was one of the key members.  Simonson really did him dirty here.

Fused Transformers is still the stuff of nightmares.

Loved this book as a kid. I can't even begin to count how many times I must have read it back then.

I love this page and still recall the first time I read this issue when it was brand new.  My brother was collecting the monthly Transformers title at the time, which meant I didn't need to buy it since I could read his copies.  This issue stuck out at me because it presented the new characters so differently from their simply showing up out of nowhere in the cartoon series.  I really enjoyed how they were introduced here, and for reasons I still can't fully articulate, the final panel with the Autobots arriving on Earth really hit nine year-old me (in a good way).

I loved Titans Hunt.  I also remember the frustration of the issues being chronically late.  But when they did hit the stands?  Pure excitement that few titles could outmatch for me at the time.  

I love Willingham's Justice League art, so much so that I have a clear memory of the first time I read this issue the day after it hit the stands back in 1989.  Awesome pickup!

Great page from a great series.  And the Blisters would have been one of the worst superhero team names ever.

Powerful imagery by Cullins.  I can see why this page stuck with you after so many years.  Congrats on picking up such a personally meaningful page (which to me is the best kind of OA).

Wonderful cover that brings back memories of renting VHS tapes in the 1980s of old superhero cartoons like Aquaman, Shazam! and Superman that I otherwise never would have seen as a kid.  And it's great to see Tusky get some overdue respect with a cover appearance!

I'm a huge fan of recap issues, and nobody did them better than George Perez.  A wonderful page from one of the best ever runs on the Avengers.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the work of Frank Robbins.  Love seeing his take on Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

Ah, Extreme Justice.  A title that exemplifies the strange state of superhero comics in the mid-1990s.  This page has some great shots of Maxima, and I really like the image of Firestorm in the bottom corner.  Also, great recap video from OAX 2025!  Only 8 months until OAX 2026!

Beautiful piece!  Nobody does these color portraits better than Stelfreeze.

I love seeing Wanda in her classic costume by an artist as talented as Jusko. A fantastic pickup!

No living artist does cosmic better than Starlin.  Awesome pages!

So. Damn. Good.  Pacheco at his absolute best!

This page is from a book that states on its cover that it was REJECTED by the Comics Code Authority.  I hope you don't get in trouble with the Comics Code Cops for owning this!

The guy eating in the bottom corner of the page is being treated to a delightful show to go along with his meal.  Good deal!

Aparo clearly had a good feel for drawing Metamorpho even before he drew the character monthly in "Batman and the Outsiders."  Very cool page of Rex in action!

Awesome shot of Colossus in that first panel, but I'm glad they didn't turn the thing he's wearing into one of his regular costumes.  It may look sorta cool while he's in metal form, but not so much when he switches back to human form. On the other hand, I like Rogue in the yellow-orange ensemble.

Love the level of detail on this.  Ramos has come a long way from his early days on Impulse.  

Super dynamic image of Lord Vader.  The look of the helmet gives me classic Carmine Infantino vibes.

If it were up to me, Jerry Ordway would be drawing new books featuring Golden Age heroes every month.  This is a wonderful commission!

There's no better Avengers art team than Big John Buscema and Tom Palmer, although I've been wondering ever since this issue first came out how Chairman Kang's facial hair works with the mask. 

I'm still mad that Jim Shooter never approved a Dazzler vs. Care Bears crossover in the mid-1980s.

I've long believed that Taylor Swift is a mutant with the ability to compel people to buy tickets to her shows.  It's the only logical explanation for the Eras Tour.

The original Dazzler series would have been much more interesting if she'd had a computer like Synergy and her main villains were a rival band consisting of members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. 

Cory Smith shows that he has what it takes to compose a great action scene with multiple characters.  Really nice looking page!

Peter David and Larry Stroman gave us such a cool take on a team of Marvel's mutants that it still feels fresh today. 

Beautiful!  Buckingham clearly loves these characters as you can feel that love emanating from this piece.

Bob Hall's Shadowman was the most consistently good of the original Valiant books in my opinion.  This is a fantastic sample from that classic run!

Each panel is an absolute gem, but nothing can beat that first panel of the team waiting on the steps like kids waiting for their friend to get home so they can play.  

Nowadays kids report cards are often sent via email or a web portal. I guess if Archie were in a similar scenario today, he'd be infecting his parents' computers with a virus while smashing their iPhones with a hammer.

Fabulous depiction of the Master of the Mystic Arts by one of the masters of the comic book arts.

If McManus ever wanted to do a Plastic Man series set in the 1940s, I hope that DC would give it to him.  He clearly has the talent to pull it off.

Byrne beautifully captures the majesty of flying through space.  Too bad Hawkman had to go ruin it by being such a jerk in the final panel.

Yu seemed to come out of nowhere when he started drawing Wolverine, but he quickly established himself as one of the best Wolvie artists around.  I still think of him first as a Wolverine artist thanks to amazing pages like this one.

Reis and Albert really conveyed quite effectively the creepiness that should be inherent in a scene where multiple superheroes and villains return from the dead to cause chaos.  In the hands of other artists, this scene could have come across looking silly.  There's nothing silly looking here.  

A great example of a Wally Lombego script inspiring artists to do excellent work!

Beautiful shot of the Falcon flying towards a planet.  Growing up in the 1980s, Marvel's Star Wars comics were one of the few places where we could get a regular dose of a galaxy far, far away.  The fact that they had great artwork like this is why those stories are still so well-remembered decades later.  Congrats on the awesome pickup!

Wood combined the sexy and the spooky seamlessly on this splash page. A really great looking piece of art!

I see that Perkins was giving us a sexy take on Hela even before Cate Blanchett showed us in the MCU that being tho Norse goddess of death doesn't mean you can't be attractive.  Really great looking page!