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Charlie Brown
Bought for the cover Message 1 - 2011-02-08 at 17:41:09
Did you ever buy a comic book just because you liked the cover? I thought about that seeing the BOOM limited edition of WDC #715 with the Daan Jippes cover art: http://www.boom-studios.com/walt-disney-s-comics-and-stories-715-limited-edition.html
As far as I can remember I did this only once before: Gladstone Comic Album #18
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2005/11/us_gca_018a_001.jpg
Usually I buy comic book, because I like to read (and/or own) the content or I collect the series.
Patrick Hanifin
Bought for the cover Message 2 - 2011-02-08 at 20:42:33
That Junior Woodchuck's album cover is very nice!

I bought Gladstone WDC&S 601 for the cover only. It has a Carl Barks drawing of Sailing the Spanish Main beautifully colored by Susan Daigle-Leach. Unfortunately, to make the drawing fit the cover they had to chop off part of the sailboat's sail, but it still really pleases me.

Patrick
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GeoX
Bought for the cover Message 3 - 2011-02-08 at 20:59:45
I too purchased the limited-edition version of WDC715. I feel like I shouldn't be encouraging this kind of behavior, but I just liked it eighty-seven times more than the Van Horn version.
Matilda
Bought for the cover Message 4 - 2011-02-09 at 05:58:07
I'm buying the U$ 400 with the incentive "Obsession" (Jippes, I presume?) cover--how can I resist a cover that has not only Magica but also Miss Quackfaster on it? I probably won't ever get another chance to get an English-language-comic cover prominently featuring Miss Q.
I also bought BOOM's U$ 386A for cover alone--the Fernando Guell Viking ship, where U$ and the nephews are sheltering under one of the shields taken from the side of the boat, leaving Donald in the rain.
And I bought several of the Muppet comics with David Peterson covers for the cover alone (either I bought the TPB, in the case of King Arthur and Robin Hood, or didn't like the story, in the case of Snow White): King Arthur #1, with Kermit Arthur and the Lady of the Lake; Robin Hood #4, with Kermit Robin in jail; and Snow White #2, with Miss Piggy as the evil queen.
There's a much larger category of comics that I have *kept* for cover art alone--I generally keep only comics I'm actually going to want to re-read, but there are perhaps 20 or 25 comics that I keep for the covers, even though either they have no story I'm particularly interested in (e.g. U$ 317, with Rosa's "adventurer Scrooge vs. tourist Mickey" cover) or (more often the case) I have the story in better-paper-quality album form.
FAa
Bought for the cover Message 5 - 2011-02-09 at 06:50:55
I've bought several A and B covers of the same Boom! issue, even if I think it's pretty stupid :) I guess the collector in me takes over my reasoning sometimes...
But when I saw the covers of DD 350, I just had to buy both because I really liked the covers together! Side by side, they're like a two panel comic strip :)
Hedberg
Bought for the cover Message 6 - 2011-02-09 at 09:24:09
Works both ways...(?)
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4673/twoways.jpg
Coolwater
Bought for the cover Message 7 - 2011-02-09 at 09:57:50
I bought a couple of the late-80s Gladstone comic books by second-hand mainly because they had new covers for old Barks stories, drawn by Daan Jippes and Don Rosa. I had the Barks stories already in my CBLiC, but those covers were too nice to have.
MustangRockstar
Bought for the cover Message 8 - 2011-02-09 at 19:19:53
Quote from user: FAaI've bought several A and B covers of the same Boom! issue, even if I think it's pretty stupid :) I guess the collector in me takes over my reasoning sometimes...

But when I saw the covers of DD 350, I just had to buy both because I really liked the covers together! Side by side, they're like a two panel comic strip :)


I have a love/hate thing with the alt cover approach. Love the different art. Hate that I am a completionist. I have a hard time finding certain alt covers locally.
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