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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2022 9:02:32 GMT -5
Who's ahead, Modok... or this guy? (Reprint and original) way to use the ole noggin, Prince Hal! -M
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 28, 2022 1:40:35 GMT -5
How often could you find a cover prior to this 1965 one upon which the lead character was nowhere to be found? Even Imaginary Stories still featured "our" heroes even if the stories themselves didn't count and if the comic featured a future or past Superman or Batman, you can bet that DC made sure that the real McCoy were gaping in wonder next to him on that cover. Here? This isn't a team-up or an Imaginary Tale in which history diverged at some point, this is a spin-off in which the title character has been given the night off.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2022 11:18:20 GMT -5
Were these ahead of their time?
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 5, 2022 13:26:21 GMT -5
Were these ahead of their time? Personally, I do not think so. The frame populated by characters was just a branding template that's not new, and Marvel also used a version of it for the first hardback Marvel Masterworks books as seen below:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2022 13:36:10 GMT -5
I was thinking what driver1980 posted was ahead of its time, or at least very innovative, since the border and headshot design was used across every title that month. I'm not sure that had been done before on that scale, but I could be completely blanking on prior examples!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2022 13:43:34 GMT -5
I was thinking what driver1980 posted was ahead of its time, or at least very innovative, since the border and headshot design was used across every title that month. I'm not sure that had been done before on that scale, but I could be completely blanking on prior examples! Or it was a pun... a "head" of its time for all those headshots... -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2022 13:55:28 GMT -5
I was thinking what driver1980 posted was ahead of its time, or at least very innovative, since the border and headshot design was used across every title that month. I'm not sure that had been done before on that scale, but I could be completely blanking on prior examples! Or it was a pun... a "head" of its time for all those headshots... -M You might say it went right over my "head"!
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Post by badwolf on Aug 5, 2022 15:24:38 GMT -5
I can't see the image in driver's post. (I figured it out from context.)
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Post by tonebone on Aug 11, 2022 8:59:03 GMT -5
Or it was a pun... a "head" of its time for all those headshots... -M You might say it went right over my "head"!
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 11, 2022 9:35:11 GMT -5
Thor's giant head looks too well shaded, inked, colored, and lighted for something from 1968.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 11, 2022 10:16:58 GMT -5
A bit more recent: the cover of Howard the Duck magazine #5 was a collage. I liked it well enough, but it didn't start a trend.
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