A Lovecraft Comic Book Cover Gallery X:
Re-Animator
(Davidsen et al., 2015)

This is the tenth installment in our Lovecraft themed cover galleries. Below, we present covers from some Re-Animator series published in the United States by Dynamite Comics.

1

  • title: Re-Animator (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Nick Bradshaw
  • writer (adaptation): James Kuhoric
  • artist: Nick Bradshaw
  • issue: #0 (one-shot)
  • release date: 2005
  • cover: A cover
  • format: standard comic
  • commentary: Dynamite released a one-shot titled Re-Animator, numbered issue #0, in 2005. It ended with "to be continued". However, the series was not published until a decade later.

2

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #1 of 4
  • release date: April, 2015
  • cover: A cover
  • format: standard comic
  • commentary: Dynamite typically produces books with many cover variants. There are a few typical features of their release pattern. Often they get a high profile artist to make the A cover only for issue one, in this case Jae Lee. This was the only cover to the Re-Animator series created by Jae Lee.

3

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Francesco Francavilla
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #1 of 4
  • release date: April, 2015
  • cover: B variant
  • format: standard comic
  • commentary: The artist commissioned to create the A covers for each issue in the series, in this case Francesco Francavilla, gets bumped back to the B variant. Francavilla did create the A covers for issues 2, 3 and 4.

4

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Tim Seeley
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #1 of 4
  • release date: April, 2015
  • cover: C variant
  • format: standard comic
  • commentary: Because the first issue is usually the best selling issue, sometimes other artists are brought in to create additional variant covers to issue one. This was the case with Tim Seeley.

5

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Andrew Mangum
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #1 of 4
  • release date: April, 2015
  • cover: D variant
  • format: standard comic
  • commentary: Andrew Mangum created a series of themed covers, which appeared as the D variant for the first issue and the B variant for issues 2, 3 and 4.

6

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Francesco Francavilla
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #2 of 4
  • release date: May, 2015
  • cover: A cover
  • format: standard comic
  • commentary: All four of the covers by Francesco Francavilla feature this conflicting red and blue color scheme.

7

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Andrew Mangum
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #2 of 4
  • release date: May, 2015
  • cover: B variant
  • format: standard comic
  • commentary: All four of the covers by Andrew Mangum feature the three circular insets with campy inscriptions.

8

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Francesco Francavilla
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #3 of 4
  • release date: June, 2015
  • cover: A cover
  • format: standard comic

9

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Andrew Mangum
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #3 of 4
  • release date: June, 2015
  • cover: B variant
  • format: standard comic

10

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Francesco Francavilla
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #4 of 4
  • release date: July, 2015
  • cover: A cover
  • format: standard comic

11

  • title: Re-Animator (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite Comics
  • cover artist: Andrew Mangum
  • writer: Keith Davidsen
  • artist: Randy Valiente
  • issue: #4 of 4
  • release date: July, 2015
  • cover: B variant
  • format: standard comic

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