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Post by MDG on Jun 14, 2019 9:34:34 GMT -5
Nick Cardy's framing here from 1972 looks rather familiar.  I get the feeling someone else is in the Facebook "Comic Swipes" group. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 14, 2019 9:54:24 GMT -5
I dunno.. I don't count these "characters interacting in similar ways" conceptual swipes as "swipes." The camera angle is different! And we have two really strong, clever layouts... and also Giant-Man. Sorry TTA! (Is that Kirby? Kirby is generally a little more... what's the word... not-awful. I can't read the signature box. Dick Ayers is also better than this, 99 times outta hundred.) We-e-e-e-ll, if you want to be super-strict, okay, I guess then that we should start a thread for tropes, as in "Covers with Erased Characters." And in this case, as in many another, we can probably lay the similarity of the stories and villains at the feet of editors and writers; thus the artists went a'searching for similar cover ideas. It's Heck on the Marvel cover. Came out about three years before Batman 188. PS: Do you really want to tap Giant-Man's @$$? That'd be ludicrous!  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 14, 2019 10:05:12 GMT -5
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Post by rberman on Jun 14, 2019 11:15:29 GMT -5
Nick Cardy's framing here from 1972 looks rather familiar. I get the feeling someone else is in the Facebook "Comic Swipes" group. Yep! I swipe the most interesting swipes from there. |
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 14, 2019 13:41:00 GMT -5
The old "Grim Bus Driver" trope, from September '75 and November '73, respectively.   And just a few issues later, that bus driver's trolling for hitchhikers, while back in 1972, someone was thinking of an Emily Dickinson poem...   Yeah, DC loved using that theme. It must have been pretty popular with readers to be used so much. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 14, 2019 14:08:14 GMT -5
tarkintino, I am sure there are more of these. Oh, this is what happens when you steal the ghost's car... 
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 14, 2019 14:52:23 GMT -5
DC's The Witching Hour also used the "secret coffin invitation" on two covers:  TWH #25 (November, 1972). Art by Nick Cardy. TWH #37 (December, 1973). Art by Nck Cardy. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 14, 2019 15:01:37 GMT -5
DC's The Witching Hour also used the "secret coffin invitation" on two covers: TWH #25 (November, 1972). Art by Nick Cardy. TWH #37 (December, 1973). Art by Nck Cardy.Variations on Kubert's hiding Nazis... |
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 18, 2019 14:03:04 GMT -5
  Action Comics 156 (May, 1951) - Al Plastino Superman 76 May-June, 1952) - Curt Swan |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 27, 2019 15:29:47 GMT -5
We can argue about who's as good, but there's no better cover artist than Kubert, is there?   |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 15:19:39 GMT -5
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Post by rberman on Jul 10, 2019 14:45:53 GMT -5
Everybody knows Brian Bolland's iconic cover to The Killing Joke, right?  There's currently a brouhaha surrounding the work of photographer/cosplayer Anthony Misiano, a.k.a. "Harley's Joker". He sells his unlicensed reproductions for a living, but apparently DC is cool enough with it that they collaborate with him on occasion. This is actually a retouched photomontage, not just a single original photo. OK, it looks pretty cool too.  Artist Arthur Suydam thought it looked pretty cool too, because he used it as the basis of his own homage to Bolland for DC's "DCeased" event.  Suydam admits using Masiano's photo as a "reference," but it appears to be more of a Photoshop retouching, judging by the pixel-by-pixel comparison.  Pros such as Bill Sienkiewicz (no stranger to photo reference) have weighed in denouncing Suydam for this stunt, and more generally as well. |
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 11, 2019 18:20:30 GMT -5
Detective Comics #395 (January, 1970). Cover by Neal Adams. Captain America #277 (January, 1982). Cover by Mike Zeck and John Beatty. 
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 13, 2019 18:50:33 GMT -5
Someone else was reading their DC comics, right down to the direction the hero is crashing out of the window, to a body of water in the background... Batman #168 (December, 1964). Cover by Carmine Infantino (pencils) with Joe Giella (inks). The Savage She-Hulk #3 (April, 1980). Cover by Rich Buckler (pencils) with Al Milgrom (inks).  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 26, 2019 9:27:37 GMT -5
Stumbled on this Foreign Legion cover, from 1955, which made me think of the OAAW cover from 1966. Check the "Tropes" thread for more on this.   |
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