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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 10, 2015 22:58:32 GMT -5
I'm looking at the cover art, not the price being asked for it. Blank 'sketch' covers allow artists to create individual pieces of cover art...I thought that one was particularly nice. Ah. Never heard of this. Are there many other blank covers besides Zero Hour?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 23:16:36 GMT -5
I'm looking at the cover art, not the price being asked for it. Blank 'sketch' covers allow artists to create individual pieces of cover art...I thought that one was particularly nice. Ah. Never heard of this. Are there many other blank covers besides Zero Hour? A lot of modern comics offer a blank variant for first or special issues, DC even tied them to the We Can Be Heroes fundraiser they sponsored a few years back. They are usually one of a couple different variants offered for the issue though (unlike Zero Hour where it was the only cover). I have bought a bunch over the years but have only commissioned sketches on 3 of them so far (a Wonder Woman and a Thanos sketch and a Sabrina as the Scarlet Witch). Here's the Dan Parent Sabrina sketch... The Thanos sketch...by Rick Deschene and an upside down pic of the WW sketch by a local self-publishing cartoonist I have blannks for everything from Flash Gordon to THUNDER Agents to theShadow to Green Arrow and Supes and Bats I plan to get sketches on at some point when I go to a con with an artist I want to commission them from. I haven't paid more thna cover price for any of the blank variants (sometimes less in bargain bins) and sketches depend on how much the artist charges (iirc the Sabrina was $35, Thanos $40 and WW $15, but I had bought a page of his art at the charity auction earlier so he gave me a good price for the sketch as a thank you). -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 11, 2015 0:02:57 GMT -5
Thanks for the info, m. I should get out of my cave every so often.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2015 7:16:21 GMT -5
My guy in my LCS gave me a blank cover for Savage Dragon#200 and I gave it back. I wanted actual art on what I'm buying.
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Post by MWGallaher on Nov 11, 2015 11:01:17 GMT -5
This might be the first (almost) blank cover: Daredevil Comics #82 from January 1952:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 11, 2015 11:45:26 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 11, 2015 12:48:47 GMT -5
DC accidentally printed the cover for Wasteland #6 on issue 5, so #6 came out like this:
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2015 19:06:21 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2015 22:22:45 GMT -5
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 11, 2015 22:28:36 GMT -5
What even happens in that issue ^? Do I want to know?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2015 23:22:48 GMT -5
What even happens in that issue ^? Do I want to know? No. No you really don't...here it is anyway. In this 48 page masterpiece of madness simply titled Billy Ray Cyrus, it features the country music star traveling through time to fight ghosts, dragons, and evil knights, with nothing but the greatest mullet that has ever been featured in the comics medium.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 12, 2015 10:27:17 GMT -5
If you ignore the ludicrous subject matter, though, that's actually a nicely composed, well-rendered cover. It wouldn't entice me to buy such an abomination but this cover art isn't bad. Cei-U! I summon the achy-brea... nope, I just can't do it!
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Post by MDG on Nov 12, 2015 11:28:09 GMT -5
Paul S. Newman and Dan Barry?!?! This must've been close to the last thing in both of their long careers (and as far as I know, maybe the only times they've worked for Marvel?). Wonder what the story behind that was? A chance to give a couple old-timers a good-paying assignment?
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Post by the4thpip on Nov 12, 2015 15:20:52 GMT -5
What even happens in that issue ^? Do I want to know? No. No you really don't...here it is anyway. In this 48 page masterpiece of madness simply titled Billy Ray Cyrus, it features the country music star traveling through time to fight ghosts, dragons, and evil knights, with nothing but the greatest mullet that has ever been featured in the comics medium. Rebel begs to differ: With alternates!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 17:07:34 GMT -5
No. No you really don't...here it is anyway. In this 48 page masterpiece of madness simply titled Billy Ray Cyrus, it features the country music star traveling through time to fight ghosts, dragons, and evil knights, with nothing but the greatest mullet that has ever been featured in the comics medium. Rebel begs to differ: With alternates! Hmmm not bad not bad...but we need some behind the head shots to compare to those of Billy Ray.
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