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Post by hondobrode on Jul 14, 2014 23:44:17 GMT -5
Here's a few more.
Probably the most referenced comic cover in history.
             
There's another one I won't post with racist themes.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 14, 2014 23:55:07 GMT -5
I wonder if I'm the only one on the site who likes McFarlane's Spider-man I really like his Spidey, and his Hulk as well.
Liked him on Invasion too, however, from interviews I've read with the man, especially his Comics Journal interview, I respect what he's done but I dislike the man himself.
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Post by foxley on Jul 15, 2014 2:37:20 GMT -5
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Post by the4thpip on Jul 15, 2014 2:59:29 GMT -5
A different kind of homage:  |
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Post by Jesse on Jul 15, 2014 15:08:56 GMT -5
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Post by foxley on Jul 15, 2014 16:45:01 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse on Jul 21, 2014 18:53:51 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse on Jul 26, 2014 8:48:34 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 26, 2014 10:19:48 GMT -5
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Post by tolworthy on Jul 26, 2014 10:41:57 GMT -5
How many? (Another too-serious tolworthy reply coming up:) 400-600 online, comprising 100-150 printed covers, and the rest are fan art etc. At least, that's my estimate based on a very extensive search for homages to FF issue 1. For the FF I got 180 homages (55 printed covers, the rest fan art etc.) and couldn't help but notice how often my search came up with Action 1 instead. Obviously I wasn't searching for Action specifically, but I used a lot of different methods to uncover the hard-to-find FF homages, and the strong impression I got is that there are at least twice as many Action 1 homages: there may be as many as three times as many, but I doubt there are more, because (1) homages were not a big thing before the 1970s: old covers were not routinely accessible (2) since the 1970s Marvel has outsold DC, and this would bias folks toward himaging Mavrel stuiff. But not enough to cancel out the huge lead that Action 1 has, simply to being the first great superhero cover and such a memorable scene. The other image that kept coming up for me was Amazing Fantasy 1. I would estimate that it's been homaged roughly as much as FF1, maybe up to 50 percent more, giving its range as 180-270 (55-75 printed covers) While on the topic, what do you guys think of this one? I doubt it was a deliberate homage, but may have been influenced by a vague memory? The cover of Action 1 was not widely reprinted in 1961, and lifting a car was not uncommon (largely due to Action 1), and it seems clear that Kirby was not working from a picture (or we would expect a tyre in the bottom right)... but Action 1 was not completely unknown, and Kirby had recently worked for DC. It's the two guys at the left who make me think this MIGHT be a dim memory of the iconic image. Or is it total coincidence? What do you think?  |
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Post by tolworthy on Jul 26, 2014 11:48:27 GMT -5
BTW, did M C Escher draw the original cover? I'm trying to wrap my hear around how the car is facing towards the reader, yet is crashing BEHIND a mound of earth that is BEHIND the car.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 26, 2014 13:35:14 GMT -5
Re: Working for DC. If you weren't working for Mort Weissinger, you weren't working on Superman. Kirby did draw some back-ups for Worlds Finest, but he never struck me as the type to actually read comics looking for his work. And I never got the sense he thought about/particularly cared for superheroes per se.
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Post by tolworthy on Jul 26, 2014 14:00:22 GMT -5
Re: Working for DC. If you weren't working for Mort Weissinger, you weren't working on Superman. Kirby did draw some back-ups for Worlds Finest, but he never struck me as the type to actually read comics looking for his work. And I never got the sense he thought about/particularly cared for superheroes per se. Did Kirby ever go top the DC offices? I hear that in later years they had big pictures on the walls: is it possible they had a blow up of Action 1 on the wall when Kirby visited? |
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Post by foxley on Jul 26, 2014 18:59:33 GMT -5
The guy in purple fleeing in the background and the guy running towards the reader makes me lean towards deliberate.
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Post by foxley on Jul 30, 2014 6:01:36 GMT -5
Another couple:   |
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