25 ChatGPT Prompts for Comic Book Covers

Comic book covers are the first thing readers see. They tell a story before you even open the first page. A great cover can make someone stop browsing and pick up your comic. It sets the mood, introduces characters, and hints at the adventure inside.

These days, creating comic book covers has become easier with chatGPT. You can generate professional-looking covers in minutes instead of spending weeks on design. I’ve tested 25 different prompts that produce amazing results.

You can use these prompts on chatgpt.com or copilot.microsoft.com since they both use similar image generation models. Just copy and paste any prompt below to get started.

Cosmic Superhero Adventures

1. Starbound Sentinel

Prompt: Create a cosmic superhero comic book cover in a sleek modern style, 2:3 aspect ratio, depicting a caped figure hovering above a shattered planet ring, energy flares, lens bloom, and Kirby crackle effects. Include text: title “Starbound Sentinel,” issue “#1,” tagline “Dawn Over Dying Worlds,” and a corner box with character headshot and price “$3.99.” Add a metallic logo finish.

This prompt gives you that classic cosmic superhero feel. The shattered planet rings create drama while the Kirby crackle effects add that vintage comic book energy.

2. Orbital Requiem

Prompt: Create a space opera comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing a starship dogfight over a ringed gas giant, laser trails, cockpit reflection on hero’s visor, and panel framing elements. Include text: title “Orbital Requiem,” issue “#1,” tagline “The Siege of Helios,” and a corner stats box. Include price and month.

Space battles always look incredible on covers. The cockpit reflection adds a personal touch while the laser trails create movement and excitement.

Horror and Dark Fantasy

3. Midnight Midway

Prompt: Create a horror comic book cover in retro EC-comics style, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing a haunted carnival at midnight with skeletal ride operators, faded posters, and moonlit fog. Include text: title “Midnight Midway,” issue “#13,” banner “Terror Tales,” and a blurb “Step Right Up… To Your Doom!” Use distressed fonts and a stamp “Approved by the Chiller Code.”

Haunted carnivals never get old. This prompt captures that classic EC Comics horror vibe that made Tales from the Crypt so memorable. The distressed fonts and approval stamp add authenticity.

4. The Black Tide

Prompt: Create a cosmic horror comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, with a lighthouse bending under impossible stars, tentacled shadows, and a mariner clutching a forbidden tome. Include text: title “The Black Tide,” issue “#1,” blurb “Whispers from the Deep,” and a faux “Eldritch Approved” seal plus barcode.

Lovecraftian horror works perfectly for comics. The impossible geometry and tentacled shadows create that unsettling cosmic horror atmosphere.

5. Red Dusk

Prompt: Create a noir vampire comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, depicting a 1930s city street, crimson umbrellas, and a suave vampire in a fedora reflected in a blood-streaked storefront. Include text: title “Red Dusk,” issue “#3,” tagline “The Bite of Broadway,” price “10¢,” and a faux “Night Code Approved” seal.

Vampire noir is a great genre combination. The 1930s setting with the 10¢ price creates that vintage pulp magazine feeling.

Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk

6. Titan Frame

Prompt: Create a sci‑fi mecha comic book cover in detailed line-art with painterly color, 2:3 aspect ratio, featuring a colossal urban mech towering over a neon skyline, rain streaks, holographic ads, and drone swarms. Include text: title “Titan Frame,” issue “#0,” tagline “Prototype Unleashed,” tech spec callouts around the mech, and a barcode.

Giant mechs make for impressive covers. The rain streaks and holographic ads create that perfect cyberpunk atmosphere. The tech spec callouts add authenticity.

7. Blackglass

Prompt: Create a cyberpunk heist comic book cover in neon-magenta and cyan palette, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing a masked hacker team sprinting across a glass bridge as corp security drones chase, digital glitch overlay. Include text: title “Blackglass,” issue “#2,” tagline “Run the Skyline,” and a sticker “Variant Cover A.” Include a faux parental advisory.

Cyberpunk heists are always exciting. The neon color palette and digital glitch effects capture that high-tech, low-life aesthetic perfectly.

8. Ghost Protocol: Zero

Prompt: Create a techno-thriller comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, featuring a bio-augmented agent sprinting through a data vault, electric blue particle effects, and schematics overlay. Include text: title “Ghost Protocol: Zero,” issue “#2,” banner “Firewall Breach,” price “$3.99,” and a minimal corner box.

Bio-augmented agents and data vaults create that perfect near-future thriller vibe. The electric blue effects and schematics add technical detail.

Fantasy Adventures

9. Crown of Embers

Prompt: Create a fantasy epic comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, capturing a warrior-mage on a cliff with a dragon circling a ruined citadel, dramatic clouds and god rays, ornate border filigree. Include text: title “Crown of Embers,” issue “#1,” subtitle “The Oathbreaker’s Rise,” and a heraldic publisher seal. Add price and date in a classic corner box.

Epic fantasy needs dramatic scope. The dragon, ruined citadel, and god rays create that sense of ancient power and destiny.

10. Thornspire

Prompt: Create a gothic fantasy comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, with a castle perched atop needle cliffs, thunderclouds, murder of crows, and a sorceress with a burning sigil. Include text: title “Thornspire,” issue “#2,” blurb “The Witch’s Bargain,” ornate serif masthead, and publisher crest. Add barcode bottom-left.

Gothic fantasy combines the best of both horror and fantasy. The needle cliffs and murder of crows create that perfect dark fairy tale mood.

11. Bastionfall

Prompt: Create a high fantasy siege comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, with battering rams at moonlit walls, griffin riders, flaming arrows, and a glowing runic shield. Include text: title “Bastionfall,” issue “#2,” blurb “The Night of Arrows,” price bug, publisher crest.

Siege scenes show action and stakes clearly. Griffin riders and runic shields add that magical element that separates fantasy from historical fiction.

12. Grimoire Ash

Prompt: Create a dark wizardry comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, featuring a scholar in a ruined library, pages spiraling into a spell vortex, candles guttering green flame. Include text: title “Grimoire Ash,” issue “#1,” tagline “Do Not Read Aloud,” and publisher emblem with price/date.

Dark magic in ruined libraries creates instant atmosphere. The spiraling pages and green flame suggest forbidden knowledge and dangerous power.

Superhero Teams and Origins

13. Unity Force

Prompt: Create a superhero team comic book cover in dynamic splash composition, 2:3 aspect ratio, five heroes lunging toward the viewer with speed lines and debris, city backdrop, bold color blocking. Include text: title “Unity Force,” issue “#5,” banner “Crisis Arc—Part 1,” and character roll call along the left edge. Add barcode and publisher logo.

Team covers need to show all the heroes clearly while maintaining visual impact. The character roll call helps readers identify everyone.

14. Static Origin

Prompt: Create a superhero origin comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing a teen discovering glowing powers in a storm-lashed alley, puddle reflections forming the emblem, comic speed lines. Include text: title “Static Origin,” issue “#1,” tagline “When Lightning Chose,” and a bright price circle with month.

Origin stories work best when they show the moment of transformation. The puddle reflection creating an emblem is a nice visual touch.

Action and Adventure

15. Relicbreaker

Prompt: Create a mythic adventure comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, featuring a modern archaeologist confronting a colossal stone guardian in a jungle temple, vines, falling dust motes, golden backlight. Include text: title “Relicbreaker,” issue “#1,” blurb “The Idol of a Thousand Eyes,” and a circular price bug. Use rugged, chipped lettering.

Modern archaeology meets ancient mysteries. The stone guardian and golden backlight create that Indiana Jones adventure feeling.

16. Emerald Rift

Prompt: Create a jungle adventure comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, depicting explorers on rope bridges above bioluminescent ruins, giant moths, and a volcano rumble. Include text: title “Emerald Rift,” issue “#3,” blurb “Temple of the Living Moths,” and a stamp “Expedition Series.” Add barcode.

Jungle adventures need exotic elements. Bioluminescent ruins and giant moths create that sense of discovering lost worlds.

17. Wasteland Run

Prompt: Create a post-apocalyptic road-warrior comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, featuring a spiked interceptor car bursting through a dust storm, rust textures, sunflare, and scavenger silhouettes. Include text: title “Wasteland Run,” issue “#1,” banner “Fuel, Fire, Fury,” and a bold price tag “$4.99.” Add barcode and publisher icon.

Post-apocalyptic road warriors are pure visual excitement. The dust storm and scavenger silhouettes suggest a dangerous world.

Martial Arts and Eastern Influences

18. Iron Lotus

Prompt: Create a martial arts comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing a lone fighter on a rain-slick temple stair, fluttering talismans, and a looming masked rival above, dynamic brush ink strokes. Include text: title “Iron Lotus,” issue “#1,” blurb “The Silent Stair,” and a kanji-inspired logo with small price/date box.

Martial arts covers need to show both skill and philosophy. The temple stairs and fluttering talismans add spiritual elements to the combat.

Monster and Kaiju Action

19. Leviathan King

Prompt: Create a kaiju attack comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, featuring a colossal sea monster rearing over a suspension bridge, helicopters circling, water sprays, and terrified crowds. Include text: title “Leviathan King,” issue “#1,” banner “Cityfall,” and a badge “Premier Issue.” Include price and barcode.

Kaiju covers are all about scale. The suspension bridge provides size reference while the helicopters and crowds add human elements.

Mystery and Paranormal

20. Suburban Haunt

Prompt: Create a paranormal mystery comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing a suburban house levitating, furniture drifting, spectral fingerprints on the windows, and a flashlight beam. Include text: title “Suburban Haunt,” issue “#1,” tagline “Do Not Open the Attic,” and a sticker “Collector’s Edition.” Add barcode.

Suburban horror is effective because it takes familiar settings and makes them threatening. The levitating furniture suggests poltergeist activity.

21. Casefiles

Prompt: Create a detective anthology comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing four mini-scenes in inset panels: crime scene, interrogation, chase, reveal; bold central silhouette. Include text: title “Casefiles,” issue “#7,” tagline “Four Clues, One Killer,” and a barcode with price.

Anthology covers can showcase multiple stories. The four panels suggest different aspects of detective work while the central silhouette unifies the design.

Time Travel and Sci-Fi Concepts

22. Chrono Split

Prompt: Create a time-travel comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, with fractured clock faces, Roman numerals spiraling, a hero reaching toward multiple versions of themselves. Include text: title “Chrono Split,” issue “#1,” banner “Paradox Begins,” small corner box with date/price, and publisher sigil.

Time travel covers need to suggest temporal confusion. Multiple versions of the same character and fractured clocks work perfectly.

Spy and Thriller

23. The Glass Cipher

Prompt: Create a spy thriller comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, with a split-diopter layout: tuxedo agent at a gala and a silenced pistol over blueprints, neon reflections. Include text: title “The Glass Cipher,” issue “#2,” banner “Trust No One,” price “$4.99,” and barcode.

Spy covers benefit from showing the contrast between glamorous covers and deadly reality. The split layout emphasizes this duality.

Urban Fantasy

24. Third Rail

Prompt: Create a urban fantasy comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, showing a graffiti mage casting sigils on a subway car, sparks illuminating posters and rats, moody teal/orange. Include text: title “Third Rail,” issue “#1,” blurb “The Sigils of Line 6,” corner box with price/date.

Urban fantasy works by mixing magic with everyday settings. Subway cars and graffiti magic create that perfect modern mysticism feel.

Western Adventures

25. Ash & Aster

Prompt: Create a western revenge comic book cover, 2:3 aspect ratio, with a lone rider against burning mesas, bullet casings in dust, sunburst silhouette, distressed wood texture. Include text: title “Ash & Aster,” issue “#1,” tagline “No Graves Left,” and a star badge price bubble.

Western covers need that sense of wide open spaces and personal vendettas. The burning mesas and bullet casings tell a story immediately.

When using these prompts, you might want to adjust certain elements. Change character names, locations, or color schemes to match your story. The key is getting that professional comic book layout with proper typography and design elements.

Most of these prompts specify a 2:3 aspect ratio, which matches standard comic book proportions. The text elements like issue numbers, prices, and barcodes make the covers look authentic.

Try different variations of the same prompt. AI tools sometimes give you unexpected results that might work better than what you originally had in mind.

These prompts should give you a solid starting point for any comic book project. Each genre has its own visual language, and these covers capture those essential elements that make readers want to pick up your comic and start reading.