I think this thread has long ago become "Hey here are two covers that sort of look alike" rather than actual homages or swipes.

In the case of the serpent/snake, both appeared on Warren magazine covers, and considering the period in which both pieces were produced, I would think its a stretch to suggest one did not influence the other. Too many similarities to be coincidence.

Regarding homages, there's not a strict definition where comic covers are concerned, in other words, examples need not be a direct copy+paste like the endless versions of Action Comics #1 or Amazing Fantasy #15 to fall under the homage category.

"Body coiled, head raised, mouth agape" is a pretty obvious action pose for a dangerous snake. In Tarkintino's defense, he did specifically note the body postures of the women on the two covers as well.

Look, I was not knocking the thread. I was just pointing out it has become more of a "tropes" thread, than homage, as Hal said.

The Hildebrandt brothers really jumped self-homage and landed on the "swipe" side with the cover of Urshurak, their 1979 novel (with Jerry Nichols), which bears more than a few similarities with their poster art for Star Wars (1977), which in turn, was based on the Tom Jung poster from the film.



From the blonde hero in white (posed with a sword), the heroine sort of squatting in front of him in an action pose with the right leg supporting her / right hand holding the weapon (both on a rocky mound illuminated from some undefined light source), to key locations and/or events of the story filling the backgrounds. I understand the Hildebrandts originally created Urshurak to be a film project, and ended up as a novel, but the Star Wars influence was all over the signature art.

Pretty shameless swipes. I imagine none of the artists involved thought anyone would be analyzing the inspiration for their work 8 decades later, but still...those aren't even trying to hide the inspiration.