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Post by Prince Hal on May 3, 2021 9:44:03 GMT -5
Lots of puppet covers out there, but just discovered this similarity between two of DC's big team books:   |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 3, 2021 11:50:14 GMT -5
Just a few years apart: 1964 and 1968   |
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Post by tarkintino on May 15, 2021 15:32:54 GMT -5
Captain America Comics #25 (April, 1943). Cover by Syd Shores. Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #32 (July, 1966). Cover by Dick Ayers.  Fitting that a Sgt. Fury cover would be inspired by a Captain America cover since the Silver Age would see retconned history of Fury fighting alongside Captain America and Bucky during WW2. That, and CA's cover was illustrated (as noted above) by Syd Shores, who would go on to be one of the best inkers for Kirby on Captain America in the late 60s.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 15, 2021 17:08:29 GMT -5
And the Black racer's pose looks an awful lot like Fury's.  |
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Post by MDG on May 28, 2021 8:54:26 GMT -5
This recent pickup from @mrp looked a little familiar...   |
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 18, 2021 15:10:51 GMT -5
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #2 (Prize Group, July-August, 1955). Art by Mort Meskin. Marvel Visionaries - Jim Steranko #1 (Marvel, 2002). Art by Jim Steranko (obviously taken from his page in Captain America #113 from May, 1969). 
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 6, 2021 10:57:55 GMT -5
Seeing the Avengers cover in this week's contest made me think of a similarly designed JLA cover that was almost its exact opposite in meaning.   |
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2021 10:25:11 GMT -5
Just a few years apart: 1964 and 1968 Great covers but I always thought the homages were more same cover designs but on 2 different titles. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 7, 2021 10:53:36 GMT -5
No, james, we've never been strict about the rules. In fact, a title like Our Army at War/ Sgt. Rock, repeated cover ideas more than once in some cases, and that wasn't just the same kind of cover in the same title, it was usually the same artist, Joe Kubert. It's sometimes difficult to tell if something is a true swipe, an homage, or just the re-use of a particular idea. The fun comes from just spotting a similarity. |
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2021 13:19:06 GMT -5
No, james , we've never been strict about the rules. In fact, a title like Our Army at War/ Sgt. Rock, repeated cover ideas more than once in some cases, and that wasn't just the same kind of cover in the same title, it was usually the same artist, Joe Kubert. It's sometimes difficult to tell if something is a true swipe, an homage, or just the re-use of a particular idea. The fun comes from just spotting a similarity. I know there is no rule. I just always thought that's what it meant. |
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2021 13:23:02 GMT -5
 These may have been already posted, and possibly by me, but i can't remember and its one of my favorites. Byrne doing Byrne |
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2021 13:26:29 GMT -5
Though this was pretty cool  |
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 7, 2021 14:05:40 GMT -5
The Avengers #23 from December of 1965 (with Kirby pencils, Romita inks and touch-ups) and The Avengers #125 from July of 1974 (with Ron Wilson pencils, Romita inks and touch-ups).  I've always felt #125 was an homage to #23, right down to the oversized villain vs four Avengers.
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Post by james on Jul 7, 2021 14:14:20 GMT -5
After looking at these homages I started to wonder does anyone have a favorite of the ones they have posted? I for one like Avengers 23 cover over the Avengers 125
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 7, 2021 15:28:16 GMT -5
After looking at these homages I started to wonder does anyone have a favorite of the ones they have posted? I for one like Avengers 23 cover over the Avengers 125 I like both thanks to Romita's inks and obvious touch-ups, but I would have to say #23 would be the favorite, due to Kirby already being an accomplished artist, so his layout was far more dynamic than Wilson's, the latter just starting at Marvel at the time, so his work was not a fluid as it would be only a couple of years later. |
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