BRONZE AGE BONANZA completes another year with the best of the best… — 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. — Welcome to our sixth BRONZE AGE BONANZA annual wrap-up! That’s right, BAB has been a 13th Dimension staple for six years now, and for the third year in a row, our TOP 13 COVERS of the year were voted upon by the site’s regular (and recurring) contributors, via weighted ballots. (I used to do it all by my lonesome.) Anyway, here’s how the vote worked: I took the winners of each month and included a couple of wild-card picks, as we do every year. (Gotta have 13, right?) One monthly winner didn’t make the final cut simply because some months were stronger than others. For example, a No. 2 in Month A might be a better pick than a No. 1 in Month B. It’s all subjective but it gives a better survey of the year overall. Here, by the way, is the No. 1 pick that missed the final cut, from February: Great cover, to be sure, with an outstanding pedigree. It’s the just that, to me, the Conan magazine covers start to look samey after a while, so it fell just short. But, hey, 14th out of an entire year of covers is no shame. OK, so who voted, besides me? A Murderer’s Row of comics writers, artists, experts and superfans: Paul “The Celebrated Mr. K” Kupperberg; Mighty Jim Beard; Prolific Peter Bosch; Merry Kerry Callen; the singularly named Franco; Cavortin’ Chris Franklin; Wallopin’ Walt Grogan; Ramblin’ Rob Kelly; Bill “The Thrill” Morrison; Pistol Pete Stone; Dapper Des Taylor, Scrappy Scott Tipton; Fab Freddy Van Lente; and newbies Dakota Alexander and Jason Czernich, who haven’t earned their nicknames yet. Each voter listed their preferences in order, with 13 points going to the top pick, 12 points to the No. 2 pick, and so forth. The max number of points, then, was 208. (There were a record 16 of us this year!) For each entry, you’ll see the point total, overall observations, whether someone picked the cover as No. 1, plus the comments (slightly edited) I made in the monthly BRONZE AGE...