The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Someone Stole Marvel's Crayons!

Monochrome covers, baby! How cool were they? During the late 60s/early 70s, Mighty Marvel experimented with a few--sometimes to awesome effect! Now all of the following comics aren't purely monochromatic--there are some other colors, but usually only two or three (I drew the line at more than three colors--that's why you don't see Avengers #73). It's like, the colorists only had two or three crayons with which to create these masterpieces. Were stolen crayons really involved? Did the colorists just get lazy? Was publisher Martin Goodman trying to save some moolah? Only Irving Forbush knows for sure--and he ain't tellin'!

Cover art by Gene Colan and Dan Adkins

Cover art by John Buscema

Cover art by Gene Colan and Vinnie Colletta

Cover art by Marie Severin and John Verpoorten

Cover art by Dick Ayers and John Severin

Cover art by Herb Trimpe and John Severin with John Buscema

Cover art by George Tuska with John Romita

Cover art by Jack Kirby and Vinnie Colletta

Cover art by Don Heck and George Tuska

Cover art by Jim Steranko