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Post by foxley on Feb 19, 2016 3:57:57 GMT -5
I can understand older and somewhat obscure Presidents not appearing on comic covers. But was Gerald Ford ever cover featured? PS-I will pardon you if you can easily find an example I know of one, but it is post-2005 and so ineligible. Plus Ford appears as part of a parade of presidents on it. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 19, 2016 4:36:30 GMT -5
I'll go for a classic  |
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 19, 2016 5:41:53 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2016 6:07:01 GMT -5
I can understand older and somewhat obscure Presidents not appearing on comic covers. But was Gerald Ford ever cover featured? PS-I will pardon you if you can easily find an example I know of one, but it is post-2005 and so ineligible. Plus Ford appears as part of a parade of presidents on it. Maybe Ford doesn't get remembered for his time in office and thus gets short shrift in these types of magazines. Although, Chevy Chase made a living out of playing him and falling almost every episode of SNL. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2016 6:07:56 GMT -5
I'll go for a classic Not for nothing but, this cover is one of the great covers of all times. It has everything in it. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 19, 2016 6:26:27 GMT -5
And it features Jimmy Carter in the front row having a blast with Batman and Sonny Bono. Gerald Ford is also there along with his wife   The Phantom disapeared on the US edition, but here in Europe we got it  |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 19, 2016 6:45:10 GMT -5
I love this cover, one of the very first undergrounds I ever bought! Rand Holmes was on fire. Great body of work and amazing life! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2016 7:32:06 GMT -5
And it features Jimmy Carter in the front row having a blast with Batman and Sonny Bono. Gerald Ford is also there along with his wife The Phantom disapeared on the US edition, but here in Europe we got it I wonder why the Phantom was taken out. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 19, 2016 8:50:40 GMT -5
Well, DC probably didn't have the right to pblish him then, while some european publishers of DC had, I'm sure it's that simple.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 9:45:55 GMT -5
And it features Jimmy Carter in the front row having a blast with Batman and Sonny Bono. Gerald Ford is also there along with his wife The Phantom disapeared on the US edition, but here in Europe we got it I wonder why the Phantom was taken out. I think he was put in, as Arthur suggests, because that doesn't look like a Neal Adams drawing. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 19, 2016 10:33:04 GMT -5
I wonder why the Phantom was taken out. I think he was put in, as Arthur suggests, because that doesn't look like a Neal Adams drawing. The Phantom is covering somebody up, between smiley lady with a perm and the guy who looks a bit like Geraldo Rivera. Is this person being covered up because Europeans would object? Or maybe just because they wouldn't know who it is? |
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Post by Farrar on Feb 19, 2016 10:58:22 GMT -5
Here's a cover I've been considering submitting for a few days now. It's listed in Comicvine, but if it's ineligible, just let me know--I have some back ups.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 11:13:00 GMT -5
I think he was put in, as Arthur suggests, because that doesn't look like a Neal Adams drawing. The Phantom is covering somebody up, between smiley lady with a perm and the guy who looks a bit like Geraldo Rivera. Is this person being covered up because Europeans would object? Or maybe just because they wouldn't know who it is? I think that guy is Tony Orlando. Why Adams would have included him in there, I'm not sure. He was popular and had a TV show; maybe DC and whoever produced his show had a connection. I don't think Europeans would ahve objected to him, unless they were repelled by blandness and lack of talent. He was probably the lowest of the Z-list celebrities on the cover and b/c the Phantom has always been extremely popular outside the USA, and as Arthur surmises, they popped him in there because they could. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 19, 2016 11:23:17 GMT -5
The Phantom is covering somebody up, between smiley lady with a perm and the guy who looks a bit like Geraldo Rivera. Is this person being covered up because Europeans would object? Or maybe just because they wouldn't know who it is? I think that guy is Tony Orlando. Why Adams would have included him in there, I'm not sure. He was popular and had a TV show; maybe DC and whoever produced his show had a connection. I don't think Europeans would ahve objected to him, unless they were repelled by blandness and lack of talent. He was probably the lowest of the Z-list celebrities on the cover and b/c the Phantom has always been extremely popular outside the USA, and as Arthur surmises, they popped him in there because they could. The face being covered up is not at all like Tony Orlando. (I think that's Tony Orlando right above smiley lady with a perm.) The face that I called Geraldo Rivera is only partly obscured by the Phantom. There's another guy who is completely covered by the Phantom. He's blond or blondish, with short hair, wearing a green tie. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 11:58:26 GMT -5
I think that guy is Tony Orlando. Why Adams would have included him in there, I'm not sure. He was popular and had a TV show; maybe DC and whoever produced his show had a connection. I don't think Europeans would ahve objected to him, unless they were repelled by blandness and lack of talent. He was probably the lowest of the Z-list celebrities on the cover and b/c the Phantom has always been extremely popular outside the USA, and as Arthur surmises, they popped him in there because they could. The face being covered up is not at all like Tony Orlando. (I think that's Tony Orlando right above smiley lady with a perm.) The face that I called Geraldo Rivera is only partly obscured by the Phantom. There's another guy who is completely covered by the Phantom. He's blond or blondish, with short hair, wearing a green tie. I hope you'll forgive my fallibility, Hoozh. In carrying the picture from memory to a larger version, I thought it was Orlando who was missing (maybe wishful thinking.) According to www.glitterrock.org/mc0423.html, which reprints the code from the original, the guy sitting next to Jenette Kahn (replaced by the Phantom) is Ron Howard (!) (?). I don't see it myself, but maybe he still had hair then. The guy next to him isn't identified, but to me he looks like Leroy Nieman. Please accept my apologies. |
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