BRONZE AGE BONANZA: George Perez and Mike Grell make their debuts! — Welcome to BRONZE AGE BONANZA — our monthly series that looks at the greatest covers of the Bronze Age — exactly 50 years later. For more info on this feature, click here. — This was one of the tougher months to pick 13 COVERS to rank. There was a lot of solid work, some of it great, but nothing I would call transcendent. So if you were to, say, check out Mike’s Amazing World, you might have a very different list. But, hey, this is why they pay me the big bucks, right? I gotta choose! It’s in my contract. And, either way, we get Mike Grell and George Perez’s first published comics covers! Plus, a lotta groovy Gil Kane and John Romita. Dig the TOP 13 COVERS OF DECEMBER 1974 — RANKED: — 13. Werewolf by Night #27, Marvel. I swear, artists were competing with each other every month to see who could come up with the most disgusting, horrifying monster. As we’ve seen in previous installments, Joe Staton was particularly strong in the WTF category. This month? Gil Kane and Tom Palmer. — 12. Plop! #10, DC. Then again nobody — and I mean nobody — was more disgusting than Basil Wolverton. — 11. Monsters Unleashed! #10, Marvel. Though, huge round of applause to Vicente Segrelles for this monstrous entry. (And is it just me or does the woman look like Julie Newmar?) — 10. Adam-12 #6, Gold Key. I’m a real fan of Gold Key’s colorful collage covers and I don’t think they get the credit they deserve. I’m especially taken with their Adam-12 covers because they had so much more pizzazz than the show itself. (Cool Jack Sparling illos there.) — 9. Charlton Bullseye #1, The CPL Gang. Might be the first time a fanzine cover has made this list — and it’s a terrific one by Al Milgrom. This was more than a fanzine, though. It was produced with the cooperation of Charlton as a way to compete with Marvel’s FOOM and The Amazing World of DC Comics. The CPL Gang included such up-and-comers as Bob Layton, Roger Stern, Roger Slifer, Duffy Vohland… and John Byrne. — 8. FOOM #8, Marvel. Speaking of FOOM… This is a case where the mag’s limited color palette worked...