In celebration of the Latest New Year, here is a selection of comic covers marking New Years from 1938-2024, featuring comic-book characters past and present from Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny through to Batman, Spider-Man and Dare Devil...
Dan Mora's art (Cover A) for Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1. Published, DC Comics, December 2023.
I'm still waiting for my copy, but here's what we know about the comic:
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN!
The four-part crossover event of a generation begins when a not-so-jolly St. Nick hits Gotham City to investigate a brutal crime in the days leading up to Christmas… What manner of man or beast could have committed such atrocities?!
With the help of his former student, Batman, Santa will team up with the heroes of the DC Universe to right this wrong or the world wakes up to coal in their stockings!
A brutal, two-fisted holiday tale of hope, wonder, and monster
hunting is the perfect treat to ring in the holidays it’s Claus in
canon!
And here's a scattering of preview pages, written by Jeff Parker with art by Michele Bandini.
And to add a little Christmas nostalgia, here's a seasonal Batman comic cover from days of yore, beginning with Batman # 27 from (curiously) Feb-March 1945...
It's been quite a while since I posted any comic cover-art, so here's a stunning new piece by Eisner Award-winner Christian Ward featuring Batman suspended upside down in a monstrous green tentacled grip against a lurid blood-red sky.
This dramatic creation is destined for the cover of Batman: City of Madness #2, to be published this December.
For the seventh and final issue of Marc Silvestri's Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo, comic-book artist 'Jock' (Mark Simpson) has created this variant cover (only 500 copies printed worldwide) that I really like for its sheer audacity in framing the Clown Prince of Crime's manic tombstone toothy grin within a bloody image based on the the Dark Knight's iconic silhouette.
Currently available at Forbidden Planet and other good comic vendors.
As someone who is only a casual purchaser of comic books – new or vintage – but who, nevertheless, is a complete sucker for exceptional comic cover-art, I've decide to curate a personal collection of randomly stunning covers on this blog: beginning with Batman #135, cover 'H' by Jim Cheung (Special Foil Variant), May 2023.
