The key thing about this Pep cover?
It's not crypto-phallic. At all.
Now, if only that giant receptacle were sloshing out some yellowish liquid, we'd have a call-back to the ureatic cover of issue No. 2: "I'll just toss these Nordicans into that briny stream with this industrial silt scoop -- sorry for the dunking, boys!" Yeah, then we'd have something.
Still it has that lenticular 5D action we noted on an earlier cover. Keep your transquartomuralistic Kirby-punch covers, you dead-souled Marvelites who need a punch in the face in order to feel anything! We introspective Golden Agers like to lose ourselves in the endless recesses of Pep covers an its action detective adventure.
Actually...actually, that really isn't a bad pose! But I'm really fascinated by the guy in the air over the Shield's head and shoulder. THAT'S a heck of an ass shot! Gil Kane would have been proud of that.
ReplyDeleteI'd count my blessings. Better crypto-phallic than Krypto-phallic.
ReplyDeleteNice use of one of those giant pavement-chainsaw thingies in the background, too. Don't see them nearly often enough on comic covers.
ReplyDeleteG-Man Extraordinary...
ReplyDeleteDoesn't quite have the ring of Super-Soldier does it?
Ah well... hey wait a minute! Whats with the ice spike in what looks like a warm day? (Lower-right corner.)
Did the shield make that so he could impale these guys... or do they randomly appear in the what I presume are the Alps?
ReplyDeleteI believe that's a splash of water from the guy that's about to land in the water.
ReplyDeleteOn a Shield cover time flows in both directions at once.