Cover Gallery: The Golden Age

[about_faces]

Today, I present the first of several upcoming looks at Two-Face cover appearances over the ages. Feel free to skim past my blathering and commentary to just look at the neato pictures, if you're so inclined

Comments

[1mercystreet]

Oh, Golden Age. Bless you with your lack of continuity and overuse of exclamation points

[thehefner]

I like to think people like Stan Lee and Roy Thomas read these and went, "You know what we need to do if we ever write comics? ADD MORE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!" I remember reading Thomas' Avengers epic The Kree-Skrull War and being distracted by the fact that literally every single statement ends in either an exclamation point or question mark

[mistressmarilyn]

Break 'em up so we can linger on 'em longer. Thanks for your hard work!

[thehefner]

Good call! Then that's exactly what I'll do! Thanks! :D

[abqreviews]

The funny thing about that cover for #66 is that because we don't see the other side of the crook's face, it STILL could be interpreted as a Two-Face cover. Early Batman comics had those kinds of weird cover problems a lot; the Joker appears on the cover of DETECTIVE #40, which is clearly based off the splash page for the second Joker story in BATMAN #1 but isn't in the story, and Doctor Death appears on the cover of DETECTIVE #35 event though he last appeared back in isue #30.

The Golden Age, 'twas a very silly place.

[thehefner]

Totally! Well, one has to ignore the fact that it's a regular suit, albeit with the good side's color and the bad side's pattern!

[lego_joker]

According to Mark Gold in the original "Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told" collection's afterword, Detective #40 was originally planned to carry the second Joker story in Batman #1. Yannow, the one where Joker accidentally stabs himself.

Stuff happened, and the story wound up getting lumped into Batman #1. Presumably, there wasn't enough time to re-draw the cover.