Esther toujours en apnée, nous a encore trouvé un site a visiter en urgence. coverbrowser.com présente une sélection de dizaines de couvertures de comics, classées par heros, par série il y a même un moteur de recherche alors pour tous les fans faites vous plaisir.


Description sur le site :

"Created in 2006, Cover Browser displays galleries of comic book (and book, pulp, games, DVD or magazine) covers for comic book fans like myself to explore & enjoy (there's also links to buy comics). At the moment, there are 243,994 covers from 2,380 different series available. Most of the covers and associated data have been assembled using the nice Yahoo Image API, eBay, the Google Web Search API, the Amazon API, the Yahoo Term Extraction API, different homemade crawlers, and manual sorting. I'm also working with collections you send in or homemade scans. You can read more on the technical background. Also see the Cover Browser Labs.

For feedback, please contact me at philipp.lenssen@gmail.com. New covers may be added constantly – your cover suggestions are welcome too. If you have a ZIP file of a full series (with large pics numerated like 1.jpg, 2.jpg) I might be able to add it directly.

Thanks to Alek Komarnitsky and Tony Ruscoe for early testing of this site. Many thanks to Adam of ComicCovers.com for sending in a lot of covers! Another very special thanks to Brad Fraser for sending along a lot of scans from his former collection! Thanks to Dan Clark, Peter Simonis, Shane Summers and Rick Helley for sending covers. Thanks to Peter Coogan and the researchers at Uclue.

Please note that the covers are presented here "as-is" – some are cool, and some are only of interest as historical artefacts; e.g. some pulp covers contain ridiculous racist stereotypes.

Tip: to open a specific group when linking to the Cover Browser homepage, you can use a syntax like this:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/#misc

Some icons used on this site are from FamFamFam's Creative Commons licensed icon set.

Some of the artists you'll find here: John Byrne, Barry Windsor-Smith, Frank Miller, Ivan Brunetti, Alex Ross, Todd McFarlane, Mark Bagley, Steve Ditko, Jim Lee, Daniel Clowes, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo, Jack Kirby, Andy Kubert, John Romita Sr. and Jr., Sam Keith, Dave Gibbons, Erik Larsen and many, many more... The latest series added here are Bestselling Music (2008), Bestselling Movies (2008), Bestselling Games (2008), Bestselling Comics (2008), Bestsellers (2008), National Geographic, Cover Designs by Juan Pablo Cambariere, Abbey Road Hommage Covers, Vegetarian Times, Log Home Living, Worst Xmas Album Covers, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Baseball Digest, Unusual Tales, Jet, Cincinnati Magazine, New York, Ebony, Popular Science and TV Guide.

The covers belong to their respective copyright-holders and are reproduced here within a fair use context. All other content has a Creative Commons license.

The different types of covers

Some of the cover sources for this site:
Freecovers.net | Comicbase.com | Mobygames.com | Zcom.com | Comiccover.de | Amazon.com | Digicoll.library.wisc.edu | Comiccovers.com | Cgi.ebay.com | Life.com | Philsp.com | Esquire.com | Thelegacy.de | Popularmechanics.com | Comics.org | Rpgnow.com | Library.duke.edu | Curtispublishing.com | Albums.photo.epson.com | Critcononline.com | ... and 444 other sources.

 

What people said about this site

“A wonderous comic book cover gallery made possible by various open APIs.”
– Panoptican at Metafilter

“I don't like CoverBrowser.com, I LOVE IT!!!!”
– David Wilkerson, Carrollton, GA

“VERY impressive ... good resource or just cool to skim (...) I will definitely be returning to 'flip thru my collection', as it were”
– Bob Constans, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

“A lot of sites have scattered images, but yours is really like going back in time and getting a second chance to plow through stacks of comics that were dumped out so many years ago.”
– Steve Feinstein, collector of Walt Disney Comics and Stories

“Your Cover Browser web site is PURE GOLD! I just discovered it yesterday; and I cannot tell you how many happy memories I've relived of my childhood comic collecting days back in the mid-1960s.”
– Rick Helley, San Jose, CA

“It's big fun finding the run of a particular title you used to read.”
– LesJones.com

“... my new favorite site ever. They have a metric assload of scanned covers and you will waste an entire afternoon at work looking at them.”
– David Campbell, Bainbridge Island

Responsible for this site: Philipp Lenssen, Rudolfstr. 8, 70190 Stuttgart, Germany"