I love 90s gimmick covers, I thought they were great, I never read chaos comics so I didn't know about them, I agree, they did it best. One from marvel you didn't have that I think is interesting is a new warriors cover where it's actually a photograph of a model dressed as namorita. Back then I think it was the first live person on the cover of a comic.
Man it was so much fun back then!! And yeah the new quantum and Woody series from valiant. Each issue for the last few months had been a different 90's gimmick!!
My favorite gimmick cover was Eclipso #1 which had a plastic gemstone embedded in the cover. I also really liked the Turok #1 cover, even though it wasn't crazily excessive by the standards of the day. I also remember some indie books that had actual bulletholes fired through them, and the interior art reflected the massive hole going through the book. Probably the best glow in the dark covers were the ones The Spectre had.
Tip for filming glow in the dark covers: remove them from their polybags. Polypropylene and polyethylene have some degree of UV protection, so they'll limit the absorption from your UV flashlight.
Love the video! Also, Marvel did do some more hologram covers. The main ones I remember are Web of Spider-Man #90, Spider-Man #26, The Amazing Spider-Man #365, and The Spectacular Spider-Man #189.
Thank you man. Great video. I was really surprised and in awe with most of them but also had the best of laughs with everything else. Keep up the great work. U just got a new sub. Also, I recently got into collecting comics, sad to look at my bank account rn but gotta collect T.T Any tips on not breaking the bank..
great video and couldn't agree more about being a fan/collector in the 90's. it was such a special time. while today's comics i believe for the most part are better written nothing is really a game changer like stuff from the late 80's and 90's. i'd like to see a video like this featuring back covers, there really are some awesome ones out there and probably a lot i've never seen.
Thank you! A special time it was! That is a great idea! The back cover of the magic eye book has spawn in the back cover?!?! WTH is spawn doing on a continuity book?!?! Could be interesting to find out!
Awesome video pal. I have your number one book - Forceworks. I am not sure if I even knew it was a pop-up book lol. I am also pleased to own that legendary X-Men 25 hologram cover. I thought the coolest cover had to be the Blood cover. That is just epic. Such a cool variety of books shown. A really interesting vid with some great info.
I miss the days of being able to spend a buck more for a better book. Or books with ads to offset the price and make the books cheaper! The 90's were definitely a great time.
Sandman Special didn't have the first glow in the dark cover. It was the third. The first was Ghost Rider 15 in July 1991. Second was Cyberrad 5 in October 1991. Then it was Sandman Special a month later.
Hi My friend 😀.. Now that's funny..I have that Force Works book .. And I was afraid to open it... Now I know what's inside..lol😁... Great video thanks for sharing.. Have some of those same Books...👍....✌️ my friend and have a great weekend..👍👍😉
The last honorable mention comic cover from Chaos comics the Dead King, looks like Batman. Also you've kinda missed Image comics the Shadowhawk #1 with the die-cut out black cover with aluminum silver inlet of the Shadowhawk character inside when you open the book. And Shadowhawk #2 A foldable cover of Shadowhawk mask by gently opening up the cover upright to unveil his mask to see who he is. And the Shadowhawk II aluminum embossed cover also, Shadowhawk #0 all white virgin cover of Shadowhawk crawling like pose on the cover. I used to have all those Shadowhawk comics in fact in truth Shadowhawk #1 was my first Image comic in the early '90's, then i ended up buying more of these issues. Jim Valentino's, work. One of the greats. Cool video.
I appreciated Shadowhawk's gimmicks back in the day because they weren't really done to increase sales, they were done because Jim Valentino was such a nerd who enjoyed exciting comics. Eventually people complained about the price and he compromised by still doing gimmick covers, but charging standard indie cover price.
this is like the 20th time in the last year that i have seen this video.I love this guys voice and the way he makes his videos.I also say evil earnie straight to hell like he does now ^_^
Also I started doing my own comic hauls. I dont want to advertise on your channel so I'm putting it here. You and Jim and thechinest have really helped me get into comics more.
@@StaySqueezy12 it was an amazing time to be a comic fan! It was almost like every other person you ran into read comic books! Not a problem! I will definitely check them out!
One of the colorform covers is Superman: Man of Steel #30, the other is Worlds Collide #1...a tie-in to the DC/Milestone crossover (also the better colorform cover imo). They are cheap to find, too.
People often rip on the embossed/foil/hologram/etc covers of the 90's...but whats the difference between that and doing 8 different variant covers for every issue put out today? Oh...and Fantastic Four 371 was my fav gimmick cover.
I've seen quantum and Woody having a 90's style gimmick cover every month or so for the last year. Oh the print runs were insane on some of these books. But everyone was buying them, it was awesome!!
Chromium covers were my favorite! Gorgeous, with the linework etched. Could just stare at them for hours.
I totally agree!
I love 90s gimmick covers, I thought they were great, I never read chaos comics so I didn't know about them, I agree, they did it best. One from marvel you didn't have that I think is interesting is a new warriors cover where it's actually a photograph of a model dressed as namorita. Back then I think it was the first live person on the cover of a comic.
I don't think I've ever seen that!
Wow great video.I'm with you the 90s was so underrated.kind of funny how some of those covers are comming back today.
Man it was so much fun back then!!
And yeah the new quantum and Woody series from valiant. Each issue for the last few months had been a different 90's gimmick!!
My favorite gimmick cover was Eclipso #1 which had a plastic gemstone embedded in the cover. I also really liked the Turok #1 cover, even though it wasn't crazily excessive by the standards of the day. I also remember some indie books that had actual bulletholes fired through them, and the interior art reflected the massive hole going through the book. Probably the best glow in the dark covers were the ones The Spectre had.
Gimmick covers are always so much fun. I do remember the gemstone cover!
I was expecting to see scratch and sniff covers in the honourable mentions 😥
Sadly I did not have any!!
Omg I had a lot of those comics you showed off! My personal favorites were glow in the dark.
They are so much fun to own!
1.25 for big boobs in the 90s was so affordable back then. naked eye "eventually CV saw the sailboat"
It really was!! And I'll never be able to see that damn sailboat!
Thank you for opening that force works. Was always worried I'd ruin it somehow lol.
Not a problem, that's what I'm here for! 👍
Great collection!! Some really cool covers!!
Thank you!
Tip for filming glow in the dark covers: remove them from their polybags. Polypropylene and polyethylene have some degree of UV protection, so they'll limit the absorption from your UV flashlight.
Thanks for the tip!
Love the video! Also, Marvel did do some more hologram covers. The main ones I remember are Web of Spider-Man #90, Spider-Man #26, The Amazing Spider-Man #365, and The Spectacular Spider-Man #189.
Thank you! And I wish I could find all gimmick covers!!!
Your Mr. Hand is on point 👌 Mr. Bill would wonder if Slugo was coming😁
You know it!
I had to come watch this when you mentioned it in your new vid and you have some great comics
Thanks! Can't wait to do the part 2 to this video.
They also have scratch sniff cover, skydisk hologram cover, lenticular covers, sketch covers.
All of these were so awesome!
Thank you man. Great video. I was really surprised and in awe with most of them but also had the best of laughs with everything else. Keep up the great work. U just got a new sub.
Also, I recently got into collecting comics, sad to look at my bank account rn but gotta collect T.T
Any tips on not breaking the bank..
Thank you so much!!
And I tell everyone, my go to place for cheap books is eBay. There are great deals to find as long as you're patient.
Nice video man. I’m falling in love with that kind of comics. Nice comics you Got there. :)
They are so much fun, you cant help but love them!!!
Really enjoyed this video!
Awesome! Thank you!
Another awesomely entertaining video. Thanks
And thank you!!!
great video and couldn't agree more about being a fan/collector in the 90's. it was such a special time. while today's comics i believe for the most part are better written nothing is really a game changer like stuff from the late 80's and 90's.
i'd like to see a video like this featuring back covers, there really are some awesome ones out there and probably a lot i've never seen.
Thank you! A special time it was!
That is a great idea! The back cover of the magic eye book has spawn in the back cover?!?! WTH is spawn doing on a continuity book?!?! Could be interesting to find out!
Some of them were simply bad-ass!!!
They were such fun!
Pop-ups! I specialize in collecting pop-up books.....They are wonderful too! Thanks CV......
I love that cover and it only took me 20 years to be brave enough to open it!!
awesome video! Man the golden age of covers!
Thanks! And that is the perfect way of putting it!!!
Awesome video pal. I have your number one book - Forceworks. I am not sure if I even knew it was a pop-up book lol. I am also pleased to own that legendary X-Men 25 hologram cover. I thought the coolest cover had to be the Blood cover. That is just epic. Such a cool variety of books shown. A really interesting vid with some great info.
Thanks for watching!! I love this video, it was so much fun to put together!
This video was so fun! I was super young in the 90s, and it looks like I missed a lot of fun stuff, haha.
Thank you! And this video was serious fun to put together. The 90's get a bad rap, but they did have that something comics are missing today.
LOL i did not even know that was a pop up cover that is nuts.
Took me 20 years to get the guts to open it 😆
Such goodness. I love the 90s. Marvel doesn't even use covers anymore. It's just a front page with a price tag. Oh memories.
I miss the days of being able to spend a buck more for a better book. Or books with ads to offset the price and make the books cheaper!
The 90's were definitely a great time.
3:55 one of the greatest comic images to ever exist. this cover is magic to me
Wow it is really is. That book introduced allot of people to Alex Ross
images for sure.As far as content --snore
Amazing video, thank you, keep the excellent work!!
Hey!!! Good seeing you again! Thanks for watching!
Sandman Special didn't have the first glow in the dark cover. It was the third.
The first was Ghost Rider 15 in July 1991. Second was Cyberrad 5 in October 1991. Then it was Sandman Special a month later.
That's great info!
Now its gimmick variants times haven't changed much.
They really haven't, it was just more fun back then.
Hi My friend 😀.. Now that's funny..I have that Force Works book .. And I was afraid to open it... Now I know what's inside..lol😁... Great video thanks for sharing.. Have some of those same Books...👍....✌️ my friend and have a great weekend..👍👍😉
Glad you liked it! And it only took me 20 years to get the nerve to open that cover!!😆
Just realized at 11:47 you called gen X #1 Gen 13 #1 haha it happens =]
Yeah my brain gets confused 😆
wildcats 2 is my fav gimmick cover of the 90s
I still own many copies of it. I love it!
The last honorable mention comic cover from Chaos comics the Dead King, looks like Batman.
Also you've kinda missed Image comics the Shadowhawk #1 with the die-cut out black cover with aluminum silver inlet of the Shadowhawk character inside when you open the book. And Shadowhawk #2 A foldable cover of Shadowhawk mask by gently opening up the cover upright to unveil his mask to see who he is. And the Shadowhawk II aluminum embossed cover also, Shadowhawk #0 all white virgin cover of Shadowhawk crawling like pose on the cover. I used to have all those Shadowhawk comics in fact in truth Shadowhawk #1 was my first Image comic in the early '90's, then i ended up buying more of these issues. Jim Valentino's, work. One of the greats.
Cool video.
Thank you! And those are some covers I have not seen, but will look for!!
@@ComicVantage You're welcome.
I appreciated Shadowhawk's gimmicks back in the day because they weren't really done to increase sales, they were done because Jim Valentino was such a nerd who enjoyed exciting comics. Eventually people complained about the price and he compromised by still doing gimmick covers, but charging standard indie cover price.
REAAAAALLY cool top ten !!!! 90's rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!! I love it!!!
This was a great video!
Thank you! It was a blast to make!
this is like the 20th time in the last year that i have seen this video.I love this guys voice and the way he makes his videos.I also say evil earnie straight to hell like he does now ^_^
Haha! I appreciate that! Thank you!
Wolverine 50 is prob my fave 90s cover along with his brother punisher warzone 1.
I loved how it was a secret file of wolverines past you open it and it has all this cool stuff and like as a kid i didnt even know this stuff.
@@zeroforever5679 books just seemed to be so much cooler back then!
@@zeroforever5679 Silver Surfer #50 will always have a spot in my collection.
Thanks for showing the covers those were neat
Thank you! I had a great time putting this video together!
I really wish I could have been around for the early 90s comics. I love over the top stuff.
Also I started doing my own comic hauls. I dont want to advertise on your channel so I'm putting it here. You and Jim and thechinest have really helped me get into comics more.
@@StaySqueezy12 it was an amazing time to be a comic fan! It was almost like every other person you ran into read comic books!
Not a problem! I will definitely check them out!
I dig me some gimmick covers. I guess that's from growing up in the 80's and 90's.
You really couldn't beat them! Publishers were always trying to outdo each other!
Awesome stuff my friend :D I am always happy to see some malibu and shiny at that lol you know me :D sand man great stuff too:D
Hey thanks!! Had alot of fun putting this together!
Ghost Rider #15 has the best glow-in-the-dark cover. No honorable mention of lenticular covers or the "colorform" covers DC did? Great vid!
I will look for it!!
I do not remember those covers!! I hate to say it but I wasn't a reader of DC in 90's
Thank you!
One of the colorform covers is Superman: Man of Steel #30, the other is Worlds Collide #1...a tie-in to the DC/Milestone crossover (also the better colorform cover imo). They are cheap to find, too.
@@InvisiRay I will check them out!!
90's Comic Book gimmick covers kick ass. 😀👍
And then some!!
the nineties totally rocked
They were definitely a great time!
Check out the popup cover for Shadowhawk II #3, it's very creative
Oh that I have to see!!!
I noticed this new warriors got alot of gimmick covers kind of surpising
Better for us. I love these things!
Thx for the video and have a great Halloween.
You are welcome and you as well!!
Great video!
Thank you!
Shadow hawk had a glow in the dark cover.
I need to find that!
People often rip on the embossed/foil/hologram/etc covers of the 90's...but whats the difference between that and doing 8 different variant covers for every issue put out today?
Oh...and Fantastic Four 371 was my fav gimmick cover.
Exactly! They just did it with flair in the 90's 🤣
90s were a money grab yes it was a creative time but it clearly hurt the hobby.
Great video, I see a trend with some of these gimmicks books coming back these days , dark ages Print age of comics nah they huge print runs era ,
I've seen quantum and Woody having a 90's style gimmick cover every month or so for the last year.
Oh the print runs were insane on some of these books. But everyone was buying them, it was awesome!!
Wish Comics these day had comics prices from the 90s price is slowly creeping up
@@TimmyCanadianComicHunter big problem is lack of advertising in comics The advertising revenue used to keep book prices down.
I really liked the gimmick covers, but they still wouldn’t be enough to entice me to purchase books I have no interest in.
I get that. They definitely were a 90's thing and I don't think anyone would fall for them again.
This was dope
Thanks! That was fun making!
Do your top 10 favorite comicbooks of DC?!😊
Got to admit. I only recently started reading DC. So I think that video wouldn't be that great. But maybe once I have more read, I will!
Nice video
Thank you!!
Welcome
I subbed
Thank you! I appreciate every sub I get!
the chromium age rules all. nothing will surpass it. comics so good they infused chrome into it 💪💪💪💪
First time I saw I chromium cover I was hooked!
Namor had the worse artwork back then. Unreadable.
Has anyone ever told you talk with your hands too much?
Not at all
I think the 90's gimmick books have better quality cover than today's gimmick. DC's foil paper is just flimsy.
The covers back then were so nice. The quality was amazing. Today's marvel books, the color rubs off on the backboard!
@@ComicVantage I couldn't agree more
Just a hand half the vid wtf
Um, yes?
The 90s didn’t rock
Yes they did