Every week you'll get a brand-new comic cover theme game! The game works like this: I'll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a connection between all three characters, a locale, a creator, a trait all three creators share, SOMEthing. And it isn't something obvious like "They all have prices!" "They all have logos!" "They all feature a man!" "They are all Avengers (who ISN'T?)!" "They're all dead (who HASN'T been killed off?)!" "They've all been cloned (who HASN'T been cloned?)!" "They're all mutants! (who ISN'T a mutant?)" "They're all legacy heroes (who ISN'T a legacy hero nowadays?)!" etc.

In addition, please note that you must have some familiarity with comic book history to correctly guess these comics. You cannot guess the connective theme just by looking at the covers solely, you must have some knowledge beyond just the covers. The connections will ONLY have to do with connections in the actual comic books (so no incidental connections like "they share the same last names of Vice Presidents," etc. Now, if the three characters were each named Gerald Ford, that'd be another story, as that'd no longer be incidental).

If you come up with an answer that works outside of what I intended, I'll give you credit (well, provided I think it fits, of course).

One more thing - if there are floating heads on the cover, ignore them! They don't mean anything! Same thing with corner boxes!

If you think you know the answer, e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com. Don't answer in the comments. This way, people who check in at different times of the day can still get credit for answering it correctly!

Here is an archive of all the past cover theme games, plus their answers. Before each new installment, I'll post the answers to the previous week's game.

Good luck and enjoy!

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#3

Reader Cully tells me that this is the 100th one of these that I've done at Comics Should Be Good. In honor of that, I'm going to re-use the first Cover Theme Game from 2005 (it wasn't at CSBG)! If you were around back then, then you'll recognize it. If not, well, here ya go! Either way you can answer the theme, even if you remember the answer from back in '05!

HINTS: Since there are so many characters on the covers, I'll eliminate one from each of the cover. On the first cover, Hal Jordan is not part of the theme. On the second, Tempest is not part of the theme. And on the third, Blue Beetle is not part of the theme.