The Best Cover in Comics

[Jesse321]

[bullhuh]

Originally Posted by ratchet

As Peter David tells it - McFarlane was becoming a superstar - when David agreed to let him be the artist on the book he was not very well known - but his Hulk run made people give him a look. MacFarlane really wanted to draw Spidey though - not Hulk - so he asked - and Marvel offered it to him some months later - McFarlane called PD up to tell him that he was leaving the book and PD went a little ape-sh!t - he asked him to consider staying on until Hulk #350 - where he was going to have the big Hulk/Thing showdown - Todd said no thanks - PD basically said that the book was just gaining traction and that as the numbers get higher they can both demand more money from Marvel - with that Todd hung up and said he would never work with PD again. I think his reasoning was that he felt PD was using him to try to get better paid by Marvel. He was under the impression that the only reason the book was selling as well as it was was due to his art - not the stories.

Although he did do the layouts for the next issue McFarlane left before the storyline was even concluded at #346.

This is all pieced together from articles from each party. McFarlane was pretty forthcoming in an article about why he would never work with PD again - and PD has said that he was not pleased and did not understand why Todd would want to leave a book that was gaining momentum - something that no other writer/artist team were able to do with the Hulk book for some time!

PD has a history of artists leaving his books suddenly...

Damn thanks for that info. Ill be thinking of that everytime I look at my copy.

[rilynil]

Here's some of my all-time favorites:

[rilynil]

Here are two recent covers that I'd love to have bit lithos of. These are instant classics, IMO.

Amazing Spider-Man 665:


Daredevil 8:

[Nitefall]

Originally Posted by rilynil

Here's some of my all-time favorites:

Great choices Rilynil.

My favorites of those are

[twoferflinchin]

My current favorite.

[Old Man Logan]

Originally Posted by ratchet

Do you know how he ended up with the cover to #340?

The history of that cover is pretty interesting because McFarlane really wanted to take a crack at drawing Wolvie and at that time NO ONE was allowed to use any of the X-Men without getting permission from the X-Writers. PD had to go and ask to use Wolvie, telling them his intent with W, and how it would fit into continuity - they said yes.

As a thank you to PD McFarlane gave him the original art to the cover - it even has "To Peter" written on it, doesn't it?

Anyways, I was always hoping to find out how the cover landed in a collection - if PD got rid of the cover out of spite.

I asked Bill he said that he got it from a dealer so PD must have sold it prior.

[VaultMan]

Originally Posted by rilynil

Here are two recent covers that I'd love to have bit lithos of. These are instant classics, IMO.

Amazing Spider-Man 665:


Daredevil 8:

There were prints of that Spidey cover at last years NYCC. Very cool

[ratchet]

Originally Posted by Old Man Logan

I asked Bill he said that he got it from a dealer so PD must have sold it prior.

Thanks for checking... I will have to try and email PD again to ask him about it...

[ALPH4T34M]

Originally Posted by ONEYE

Best team cover (fold out style).

Awesome.