I was searching for the most fascinating Captain America comic book covers of all time when I stumbled upon a pattern in early Captain America issues. Most of the covers of the first 50 Captain America comics featured Bucky in a situation where he’s tied up in some way. It’s like he has a thing for bondage or something. I realize there’s no actual point in showing you some of these covers but hey, why the hell not? Click on the images to enlarge.

Captain America: “DAMMIT, BUCKY. I TOLD YOU TO QUIT HANGING OUT WITH NAZIS!”

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Because nobody demanded it, a new blog series! In this new series, I shall cover (hyuk! hyuk!) awesome comic book covers just because. This is exactly the same kind of dickery I pulled in Face Rockery with the blog series Face-Rocking Covers. So yeah, this is basically me making fun of comic book covers. High five?

For this inaugural Cover Carnival entry, we’ll be looking at a few covers of Batman. Unless you were living under a stupid rock (I mean, who does that? Really.) for the last year, you’ll understand why I find Batman covers to be appropriate for this initial offering. The Dark Knight spelunked (New word!) into theaters last week and Batman is understandably in everybody’s consciousness right now. This is how I’m celebrating this most awesome of awesome movies.

The Bat-Signal. ON THE MOON. And it’s daylight where the signal is coming from. Think about that for a moment, will you?

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