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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 30, 2019 14:58:46 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 30, 2019 15:13:27 GMT -5
The Windy and Willy series,as you probably know, consisted of redrawn stories from Dobie Gillis, which accounts for the similar astrology covers.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 30, 2019 15:38:02 GMT -5
The Windy and Willy series, as you probably know, consisted of redrawn stories from Dobie Gillis, which accounts for the similar astrology covers. No, I didn't. Interesting.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 30, 2019 15:38:58 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Oct 30, 2019 16:53:40 GMT -5
Egads i love me some Archie covers! Splendiferous fun indeed that's always guaranteed to bring a smile upon your face. I miss seeing silly and gag covers like these on the spinner racks. Not to mention true action oriented covers because these days the posed and stale covers just don't have any real energy or provide an impulse towards buying it to see what happens inside! Take me back to the Paradise City, where the comics were fun and the girls all pretty! Ohhhhhooohhhhhooooohhhhh won't you take me baaaaaaaack...
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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 31, 2019 11:36:44 GMT -5
Meanwhile, sort of connected to my earlier post, I found that an *extremely* common theme on teen comic covers (esp. those published by Archie) involves some kind of gag tied to horoscopes (a few also appear in the aforementioned cover contest): For a comic book called "Pep", that's a particularly low-energy logo, there.
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Post by berkley on Oct 31, 2019 11:52:40 GMT -5
Meanwhile, sort of connected to my earlier post, I found that an *extremely* common theme on teen comic covers (esp. those published by Archie) involves some kind of gag tied to horoscopes (a few also appear in the aforementioned cover contest): For a comic book called "Pep", that's a particularly low-energy logo, there.
They should have put "Needs More" in fine print at the top, a la Tomb of Dracula.
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Post by tarkintino on Nov 1, 2019 9:48:13 GMT -5
A small sampling of another well-known Gil Kane motif...
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Post by MDG on Nov 1, 2019 10:35:50 GMT -5
^^^ I wonder if they had Kane do some "generic" covers they could slot in when there was a deadline problem.
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Post by tarkintino on Nov 1, 2019 13:06:48 GMT -5
^^^ I wonder if they had Kane do some "generic" covers they could slot in when there was a deadline problem. If that was the case, it shows just how confident they were in Kane being able to just produce those covers and still make them look like something special.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 1, 2019 13:21:06 GMT -5
A small sampling of another well-known Gil Kane motif... Even a sampling should include the most important one ever!
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Post by tarkintino on Nov 1, 2019 17:42:36 GMT -5
The trope of characters fighting giant creatures close to swallowing them whole is very old, but I wanted to show how often this kind of cover found a home on superhero covers (and the expected fantasy covers, to boot). I left giant sharks out of the selection process, as too many covers increased in number after the release of Jaws (1975), and some were just poor cash-ins on the various A and B-sheets for that film.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 29, 2020 15:41:38 GMT -5
I don't remember if this has been posted, but I know there are a batch of others in this category. Just stumbled across it looking for Foreign Legion comics:
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 5, 2020 14:54:03 GMT -5
Two similar stories with almost all the same characters and a few of the same elements on the cover (throne; underworld rulers, etc.) a few years apart.
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jul 5, 2020 16:30:02 GMT -5
Two similar stories with almost all the same characters and a few of the same elements on the cover (throne; underworld rulers, etc.) a few years apart. Oh my gods. The Cat King. Selina's never mentioned before brother. Who thankfully, never appears again in comics.
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