Pete Poplaski, Cover, Batman: The Dailies, 1944-1945 (1990, Kitchen Sink)

Here’s another great piece of cover art by the extraordinarily talented Pete Poplaski, who drew the covers for the Batman and Superman comic strip reprints for both Kitchen Sink and IDW Publishing (LOAC).

Dick Sprang. Al Plastino. Carmine Infantino. You name the artist. Pete’s remarkable ability to create brand new material in any and all of these classic styles is astonishing.

Many if not most of Pete’s covers (front and back) feature his own hand-drawn lettering, but this one does not. Also, the final crop for the published book cover is tighter, so the end result of both of these details is that there much more art visible on the original than in the final published version.

I’m fortunate enough to own a few of these covers --- and many of them are prominently displayed.