Each month, hundreds of comics are released to stores for the hungry masses of fans around the world. To stand out on the shelves, you have to put the great art up front. You can judge a book by its cover. This is Cover Story.
Welcome back to our continuing monthly column. With almost 40 covers this month, it’s fair to say it’s one of the more prolific months in recent memory.
DC launched a whopping number of issue #1s throughout June, and we wanted to include them all. We just about did, as they ranged from the punk (Annie Wu’s Black Canary), spine-tingling (Riley Rossmo’s Constantine: The Hellblazer), to the just plain different (Greg Capullo’s Batman). Bizarro barely bother to stick around to pose for his cover, but Amanda Conner might take the cake by trolling Lee Bermejo’s We Are Robin cover with her own Harley Quinn twist.
However, it might just be Jeremy Bastian who takes the cake with the sheer level of detail on the beautiful Cursed Pirate Girl Annual. Don’t forget to vote for your favourite in the comments section below!
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- Ant-Man: Larger Than Life #1 (Marvel) – Artist: Jung Sik-Ahn
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- Arcadia #2 (BOOM! Studios) – Artist: Matt Taylor
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- Black Canry #1 (DC Comics) – Artist: Annie Wu
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- Black Hammer #1 (Dark Horse) – Artist: Jeff Lemire
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- Batman #41 (DC Comics) – Artist: Greg Capullo
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- Batman/Superman #21 (DC Comics) – Artist: Jock
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- Bizarro #1 (DC Comics) – Artist: Gustavo Duarte
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- Conan the Avenger #15 (Dark Horse) – Artist: Eric Powell
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- Constantine: The Hellblazer #1 (DC Comics) – Artist: Riley Rossmo
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- Cursed Pirate Girl Annual #1 (BOOM!/Archaia) – Artist: Jeremy Bastian
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- Deep State #7 (BOOM! Studios) – Artist: Matt Taylor
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- Fables: The Wolf Among Us #6 (DC/Vertigo) – Artist: Chrissie Zullo
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- FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics #21 (DC/Vertigo) – Artist: Nathan Fox
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- Fiction #1 (BOOM! Studios) – Artist: David Rubín
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- Fight Club 2 #2 (Dark Horse) – Artist: David Mack
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- Grayson #9 (DC Comics) – Artist: Mikel Janin
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- Green Arrow #41 (DC Comics) – Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz
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- Groot #1 (Marvel) – Artist: Declan Shalvey
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- Harley Quinn #17 (DC Comics) – Artist: Amanda Conner
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- Hawkeye #4 (Marvel) – Artist: Ramon Perez
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- Hit 1957 #1 (BOOM! Studios) – Artist: Vanesa R. Del Rey
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- Howard the Duck #4 (Marvel) – Artist: Joe Quinones
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- The Kitchen #8 (DC/Vertigo) – Artist: Becky Cloonan
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- Midnighter #1 (DC Comics) – Artist: Aco
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- Nailbiter #13 (Image Comics) – Artist: Mike Henderson
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- Prez #1 (DC Comics) – Artist: Ben Caldwell
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- Rebels #3 (Dark Horse) – Artist: Tula Lotay
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- Robocop #12 (BOOM! Studios) – Artist: Todd Slater
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- Spider-Gwen #5 (Marvel) – Artist: Robbi Rodriguez
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- Southern Bastards #9 (Image Comics) – Artist: Jason Latour
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- Starve #1 (Image Comics) – Artist: Danijel Zezelj & Dave Stewart
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- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #6 (Marvel) – Artist: Erica Henderson
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- The Thrilling Adventure Hour Presents… Beyond Belief #4 (Image Comics) – Artist: Phil Hester
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- We Are Robin #1 (DC Comics) – Artist: Lee Bermejo
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- Weirdworld #1 (Marvel) – Artist: Mike Del Mundo
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- Woods #13 (BOOM! Studios) – Artist: Becky Cloonan
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