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Post by tarkintino on Jul 13, 2019 12:18:57 GMT -5
^ I've always liked those kind of large and small themed covers, especially when it flipped the expected.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 13, 2019 12:30:04 GMT -5
^ I've always liked those kind of large and small themed covers, especially when it flipped the expected. Like this one?
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 13, 2019 18:28:18 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 13, 2019 18:30:06 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 13, 2019 18:30:58 GMT -5
Whew!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 23, 2019 20:41:19 GMT -5
Nothing like a good "torn from today's headlines" cover. There are plenty of these, but this is one I hadn't seen.
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 25, 2019 13:09:02 GMT -5
Nothing like a good "torn from today's headlines" cover. There are plenty of these, but this is one I hadn't seen. Yeah--I can't say I've seen that one, either. I do like how the act of bursting through a newspaper (at times) seems more of a call to action than the regular superhero comic cover.
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 25, 2019 13:10:16 GMT -5
Here's the "mini figures around the larger subject" motif. There's a ton of this kind of cover, but the four were the first to come to mind:
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Post by brutalis on Jul 25, 2019 13:20:57 GMT -5
I can't post pictures but you all are missing out on a LOT of Western tropes, motifs and themes! The hero swinging in on a chandelier in the saloon hall, the lone gunslinger facing a gang of ruffians, the cowpoke riding headlong into action/danger, the Indian's attacking, the gun-slinging hero saving the beautiful lady, the villain hiding/waiting just around the corner to shoot the hero, the cowboy as coward and much more.
Let the Google searches begin!!!
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Post by james on Jul 25, 2019 13:35:33 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jul 25, 2019 13:42:16 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 26, 2019 9:44:34 GMT -5
I posted these two comics that seem related over in the "homages" thread. Perhaps the earlier one was the inspiration for the one from 1966. Who knows? But it's also clear that the ida of a blind combatant being guided by another was a popular trope, at DC Comics anyway. The iconic example is surely "Eyes of a Blind Gunner," from OAAW 113 (1961), but it was actually preceded by this Johnny Cloud story dated February of '61 and the Gunner and Sarge story from 1959. But there was this All-Star Western from 1956. And it happened to Rock in 1965.
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 26, 2019 15:47:26 GMT -5
So, you found more! Comics seemed to love the bandaged and/or blind soldier as a cover subject.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 26, 2019 16:08:14 GMT -5
So, you found more! Comics seemed to love the bandaged and/or blind soldier as a cover subject. Yeah, and I think there must be more. Certainly there's also the variation of the blind hero, q.v. ...
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 24, 2019 7:55:15 GMT -5
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