A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

It was easy to see the cover of People magazine -- she was on the cover 80-odd times -- and see the glamorous dresses or the marital difficulties.