10 Terrible Comic Book Covers Marvel Wants You To Forget

Comic book cover gimmicks and the nineties went together like peas and carrots, but they didn't always look terrible. When they worked, they looked rather impressive and added a little something to a cover that would otherwise have been somewhat dull.

In those rare instances when a cover worked well with something like a foil emboss, it was incredibly important that nothing went wrong in the printing or embossing process or people would notice in all the wrong ways.

That's exactly what happened with Silver Surfer #50. When it was done well, the foil embossed over the title letters as well as the Surfer himself. Showing the Silver Surfer in reflective silver foil was innovative for the time and looked great. Sadly, it didn't always work.

There are hundreds of examples of this book making it to store shelves with messed-up foil. This would often involve a book with no foil at all, the foil patched on in places it shouldn't be, or most often, with the foil not set on the image in the way it was supposed to be. This book's problems were more about quality control than anything, but it stands as an example of how things can go wrong on a cover.