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The old GREEN LANTERN logo runs a close second to ROM in readability.

There are two basic schools of logo design: readability and recognition.
ROM and GREEN LANTERN and, I like to think, NAMOR fall into the first
catergory. SUPERMAN, FANTASTIC FOUR and various iterations of THE SUB-
MARINER fall into the second.
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ROM was just want you want in a logo - recognizable and extremely visible.

My favorites otherwise are some of the classic Marvel ones - the Fantastic Four, the Avengers with the arrow, and the original Spider-Man one with the web behind it being the best.

And my guess is that the Superman logo ranks right up there with some of the most recognizable brands anywhere (right alongside Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Disney, Nike, etc.)
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Fantastic Four
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I always liked this one, but it's not from the comic book:
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One of my favorites:
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Chad,

I really enjoy the Captain America and The Falcon logo as well and for much
the same reasons you posted.
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All time favorite: Superman.

Readable, recognizable, nicely designed. Pretty much the perfect logo for the character. Almost looks like it's flying towards the reader. Beautiful, but almost too beautiful since if DC were to change it in a massive way Superman's fans would be apoplectic. And that includes me. It's perfect, don't mess with it, hands off... back away from the logo.

The JLA design was really nice and is certainly readable but something occurred to me: You have to know what JLA stands for to get the title. Doesn't matter if a casual fan sees it and recognizes it if it doesn't tell you what it's about.

And a logo so perfectly matched to a character that they've hardly ever mucked around with it: The Warlord. The scroll and the font both tell you what kind of story it is (fantasy), and also lend an aura of class to the comic. The only thing missing in the logo would be some element to differentiate it from a normal fantasy story and work in the fact that the Warlord is from our world and has a gun. Though that could overcomplicate the logo.



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Love all the logos so far. For my website (link below... am I allowed to plug that?)  most of you should recognise the font, even if I did italicize it a little.
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Altho it definitely falls into both categories, readability and recognition, I will never have much love of the SHAZAM! logo. It, and the attitude that inspired it, just did too much damage to Captain Marvel.
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The JLA design was really nice and is certainly readable but something
occurred to me: You have to know what JLA stands for to get the title.

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See? Now you're thinking like all editors should think!
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