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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 3, 2022 12:26:15 GMT -5
Not a misleading cover as such, more of a “fun entry” in this topic: When I first saw this on the shelves, I was tempted to say to the comic store guy, “Is Spider-Man teaming up with the A-Team in this one?” Those webs are a peculiar addition to that cover. I think it's supposed to be a concrete wall being smashed. It’s a first-person view of what Benjamin Grimm sees through his baby blues… after an all-night rave with the Yancy Street Gang.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 13:46:59 GMT -5
jason, my friend, how many concrete walls have you seen that look like that? I must be looking in the wrong places.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jul 3, 2022 16:02:34 GMT -5
Perhaps I was more excited to learn how Superman could get a haircut than I should have been, but man, what a cover! What do we get inside? A quickly rushed answer to the question just so they say that technically, they answered the question and then on to a story about Superman's fan mail.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 16:06:17 GMT -5
Folks, I’m gonna build a case with these covers. I’ll be reporting them to the Office of Fair Trading and the Advertising Standards Association. I may even seek compensation, which I will share with you!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 6, 2022 22:50:55 GMT -5
Folks, I’m gonna build a case with these covers. I’ll be reporting them to the Office of Fair Trading and the Advertising Standards Association. I may even seek compensation, which I will share with you! So not a hoax, not a dream, not an imaginary story?
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 10, 2022 14:11:48 GMT -5
Find the DC comic.... While looking for a comic for the Cover Association thread, this one popped up and struck me as looking like a Charlton cover, not one from DC. The muted palette and the combination of light green, light yellow, and light blue struck me immediately as being Charlton-like, but there's more! You've got the clunky design with the hero shunted to an unflattering pose and position, and that decidedly unthreatening giant firefly, which come to think of it, is maybe a poor choice for an antagonist. When the back end of your threat has to be the focus of the menace, the artist can't focus on a frightening face. Then you have bizarre anatomy of the usually graceful and dynamic Adam Strange. Where is his right shoulder, and why are his legs curved so awkwardly? Plus, Adam is using a "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" bug sprayer instead of his ray gun. He looks positively dainty going after the bug's ass. WTF? Hard to believe this was an Infantino design and pencils. Granted, we have the usual enervating Joe Giella inks, but Carmine was usually able to rise above those on the covers. Anybody can have a bad day, I guess, even a comic genius. I'm wondering now if Giella was guilty of the old Colletta trick of just not inking large swaths of the panels. Compare any Infantino pencils he inked with those inked by Anderson and Greene, whose inks were alwas lush and meticulous. Giella saps the life out of everyone's pencils; he even did the same to Gil Kane, fer cripes' sake. Not to mention that undetailed cityscape and those flames like the ones I drew in fourth grade.
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 10, 2022 18:45:35 GMT -5
I'm wondering now if Giella was guilty of the old Colletta trick of just not inking large swaths of the panels. Compare any Infantino pencils he inked with those inked by Anderson and Greene, whose inks were alwas lush and meticulous. Giella saps the life out of everyone's pencils; he even did the same to Gil Kane, fer cripes' sake. Not to mention that undetailed cityscape and those flames like the ones I drew in fourth grade. I tend to agree with your view of Giella, particularly when his inks are compared to Anderson or Greene, who aided in making some of the most iconic covers, licensing art and panels of the Silver Age--perhaps all time for comics. I cannot recall any Giella-inked work having that kind of reach / impact.
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Post by jason on Jul 11, 2022 0:12:23 GMT -5
A rare example from a humor comic: There was no Rocky 4 parody in this issue (there would be in a future issue)
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Post by bsb65 on Jul 11, 2022 10:13:30 GMT -5
Jean Grey/Phoenix did not die in X-Men #136 (as the cover would imply). She technically died in #137, but even that turned out not to be true. 5 years later she was found alive within a cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay.
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 11, 2022 10:48:33 GMT -5
A rare example from a humor comic: There was no Rocky 4 parody in this issue (there would be in a future issue) Not sure that could be classified as a misleading cover, since satire magazines often used then-current pop-culture characters as a cover subject, even if they were not featured in the book. For example, Cracked had numerous M*A*S*H and The Godfather covers, but were rarely in more than one book as a series or movie satire.
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Post by james on Jul 11, 2022 11:54:48 GMT -5
Jean Grey/Phoenix did not die in X-Men #136 (as the cover would imply). She technically died in #137, but even that turned out not to be true. 5 years later she was found alive within a cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. When I saw this cover I didn't think she died necessarily. When I read the comic I was right not to jump to conclusions because i think it was more a depiction of her being so totally spent that she fell back to earth to be picked up by Scott. In regards to 137 is it misleading if at the time the intent of the creators was to have her die and never return?
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Post by Mormel on Jul 13, 2022 6:35:37 GMT -5
^Not necessarily a misleading cover per se, but in the vein of covers that feature fallen characters being held by other characters, there's one a couple issues later featuring Colossus with a chest wound. In the actual issue they have two fake-outs of Colossus sustaining that injury before he actually gets it. The first is when he intercepts a missile or a ray blast with his chest, the second is when someone blasts acid at him. The actual cause ends up being Deathbird stabbing him with a spear.
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Post by badwolf on Jul 13, 2022 8:56:39 GMT -5
^Not necessarily a misleading cover per se, but in the vein of covers that feature fallen characters being held by other characters, there's one a couple issues later featuring Colossus with a chest wound. In the actual issue they have two fake-outs of Colossus sustaining that injury before he actually gets it. The first is when he intercepts a missile or a ray blast with his chest, the second is when someone blasts acid at him. The actual cause ends up being Deathbird stabbing him with a spear. #155
If I remember correctly it was the acid that weakened his metal form so that Deathbird's weapon could penetrate it.
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Post by Mormel on Jul 13, 2022 9:42:54 GMT -5
^Not necessarily a misleading cover per se, but in the vein of covers that feature fallen characters being held by other characters, there's one a couple issues later featuring Colossus with a chest wound. In the actual issue they have two fake-outs of Colossus sustaining that injury before he actually gets it. The first is when he intercepts a missile or a ray blast with his chest, the second is when someone blasts acid at him. The actual cause ends up being Deathbird stabbing him with a spear. #155
If I remember correctly it was the acid that weakened his metal form so that Deathbird's weapon could penetrate it.
Yeah, that's how she got him. I just thought it was really neat how the issue plays with our expectations of how he's gonna get hurt.
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