Cover Browser

October 17, 2006 1:20 AM

Cover Browser. A wonderous comic book cover gallery made possible by various open APIs. [via mefi projects]
posted by panoptican (8 comments total)

I'm surprised that comic cover databases are so popular... how many sites have we seen featuring them? I would have thought we'd see more comic-influenced fiction, or animations.
posted by ®@ at 4:50 AM on October 17, 2006

Thanks panoptican. All those Marvel covers take me back to, you know, my childhood.

*gets a litttle misty eyed about, you know, getting old*
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:25 AM on October 17, 2006

The internet is a wonderful thing.
posted by marxchivist at 5:48 AM on October 17, 2006

Cool, if odd, collection.
posted by Thorzdad at 10:33 AM on October 17, 2006

Neato. I don't think I've ever seen the cover of Action Comics, #2 before.
posted by crunchland at 11:22 AM on October 17, 2006

Too bad they are all in low-res, but cool nevertheless.
posted by Vindaloo at 1:29 PM on October 17, 2006

Nice find, panoptican. I like being able to see the changing cover art, like Batman as an example. From all wacky and smiling to some twisted huge guy in a cape pounding the crap out of people and things. Or in Conan's case, it hasn't changed much at all, except for the girl in peril not showing up so much.
Browsing the Mad Mag. covers, it seems that it was National Lampoon that did the parody I was thinking of, not Mad. Nice to have that straight.
Also - I must re-read all of the Asterix series. Simply amazing.
posted by Zack_Replica at 2:48 PM on October 17, 2006

If there's any comic series suggestions to add, let me know and I'll try...

Also, I hope some of the resolutions aren't that bad...
posted by philipp at 3:05 PM on October 18, 2006