DC Comics Ink-Wash Covers ~ The 2nd Wave

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DC Comics Ink-Wash Covers ~ The 2nd Wave

By the late 1960's about the only title that occasionally featured an

ink-wash cover was the Kanigher edited title G I Combat...when

Carmine Infantino took over at the helm of DC he renitiated the

experimental use of wash covers and other production techniques on

their covers, including using mezzatint screens on ink-wash

illustrations which gives that scratchy feel to them...

Here's a batch of them...

Cover art by Nick Cardy, Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson,

Jack Sparling, Murphy Anderson & M. W. Kaluta

Neal Adams

5 Covers(Above a great example where we can see the wash

background seperate from the overlay of the cover below)

Murphy AndersonBerni Wrightson

(This original is a ink-wash illustration, never reproduced that way)

Berni Wrightson

The 1st Swamp Thing story!

(I had the comic out so I figured why not...)Berni Wrightson

(the background on this is actually just pencil, not ink-wash)Jeff Jones

his 3 ink-wash covers for DC

(border design on Sinister House cover by Tony DeZuniga)

4 great covers by

Jack SparlingThese 4 Shadow covers by M.W. Kaluta employed the
use of a ink wash background with a seperate

line drawing on a acetate overlay to achieve their look!

Joe Kubert