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Post by MWGallaher on Dec 20, 2018 9:21:51 GMT -5
These two pairs of covers interest me. Both are consecutive issues of a series. In both cases, I suspect that the publisher decided to use a cover that had been rejected/reworked for the previous issue. Hit Comics (Quality):  Quality had a lot of "go-to" cover themes that must have been successful for them, but I can't imagine it was a good idea to use such a similar pin-up two issues in a row. How many kids would have overlooked that second one thinking they already had a copy from last month? Beware the Creeper (DC):  These two are a lot different in layout, but they depict essentially the same scene. The series was evidently in chaos behind the scenes as Ditko was to exit the book after penciling only half of issue 6, so I can imagine different scenarios where they had Gil Kane pencil a cover for issue 5, only to then have Ditko deliver his own, then using Kane's on 6 since the book was already cancelled and they had a decent cover completed. Then again, maybe (I can't remember) this was the cliffhanger scene that spanned both issues and DC figured it was the only event that provided a memorable cover scene in either of them. In any case, it's a little odd to see consecutive covers depicting exactly the same thing. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 20, 2018 14:20:47 GMT -5
MWGallaher , great observations. I've seen identical covers used before, but never in such close proximity. Oh, and a very quick check on #5 reveals that the two cover scenes are indeed the cliffhanger scene at the end of issue 5. Still, they are both so good: no harm, no foul. Here's the penultimate page in #5: 
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Post by comicsandwho2 on Dec 24, 2018 18:19:04 GMT -5
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Post by comicsandwho2 on Dec 24, 2018 18:25:54 GMT -5
www.collect-mad.com/englishcoversite/ Cover gallery for British Mad. I recall reading that when the US version spoofed The Golden Girls, that show had only been on for a few months...so the UK version substituted a spoof of one of their long running soap operas, instead, and the GG article ran a year or so later, by which time that show was running (and was just as popular) over there.
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Post by rberman on Jan 22, 2019 16:00:20 GMT -5
I ran across a 2016 interview in which Keith Giffen discussed the undue influence Jose Antonio Muñoz had on his work for a while:
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Post by MDG on Jan 22, 2019 16:57:16 GMT -5
I ran across a 2016 interview in which Keith Giffen discussed the undue influence Jose Antonio Muñoz had on his work for a while: I can buy this. After all, why would you swipe a style that's going to totally alienate your fan base? |
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Post by rberman on Jan 22, 2019 17:12:24 GMT -5
I ran across a 2016 interview in which Keith Giffen discussed the undue influence Jose Antonio Muñoz had on his work for a while: I can buy this. After all, why would you swipe a style that's going to totally alienate your fan base? I count myself among the alienated. I enjoyed Steve Lightle's work replacing him on LSH. I did like Giffen/Mahlstedt's cleaner previous style though. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 22, 2019 17:22:37 GMT -5
www.collect-mad.com/englishcoversite/ Cover gallery for British Mad. I recall reading that when the US version spoofed The Golden Girls, that show had only been on for a few months...so the UK version substituted a spoof of one of their long running soap operas, instead, and the GG article ran a year or so later, by which time that show was running (and was just as popular) over there. Just seeing this. Fun to find Alfred E. supping ale in t' Rovers on Corrie Street... as the Uncle Albert Tatlock character.  Just to show what a mad soaper I am, that's Len Fairclough, Stan Ogden, Ena Sharples, Hilda Ogden and Alf Roberts L-R around him.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 23, 2019 1:03:33 GMT -5
I ran across a 2016 interview in which Keith Giffen discussed the undue influence Jose Antonio Muñoz had on his work for a while: That's all well and good, except he was aping Kirby's style, at Marvel, looked rather Adams-ish on Claw the Unconquered (at DC), was swiping design motifs from Druillet, in Legion, before he went whole hog Munoz. He's doing a heck of a lot of absorption, over his career. That said, he used molded it into something more his own, over time (his style was drastically different when he came back to comics, after leaving Marvel). I thought he was at his best in the Great Darkness Saga era of Legion, though that is where the Druillet touches were coming in. He's nowhere near as bad as Liefeld or Rich Buckler, where they are swiping panels and entire pages. That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish. Still, swiping has been a time honored tradition in comics, newspaper and comic books. Sheldon Moldoff borrowed heavily from Flash Gordon, on Hawkman, everyone swiped Caniff (especially on things like Blackhawk); Infantino borrowed a thing or two, including the design of a uniform in Flash Gordon (Flash's Powerman uniform, which was reddish-orange, with yellow boots and a lightning bolt on the chest). Giffen probably got more flack than he deserved for Munoz; but, I suspect is previous "absorptions" had a factor in making him a target. Plus, a lot of that began with the Comics Journal, who delighted in taking potshots at hot mainstream artists. Sometimes they were dead on, some times they were reaching. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 9, 2019 1:34:11 GMT -5
Just read where Gerry Conway was saying he was contracted to produce 100-150 pages a month for DC in the 80s. He admitted he was grinding a bunch of it out and it wasn't necessarily good work except the books he actually cared about.
So there you have it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 9, 2019 6:48:14 GMT -5
That’s an insane amount of pages. I only ever remember him being really good in Spider-man. Actually, I don’t really associate him with any other book that I collected.
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Post by rberman on Mar 21, 2019 21:13:33 GMT -5
Here's a 1983 photo of Carl Potts, Walt Simonson, Arthur Adams, Linda Medley, and Al Milgrom.  |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 21, 2019 21:54:21 GMT -5
Well, this is different.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 21, 2019 23:18:24 GMT -5
Brujas is witches. "Stories of Witches"? What is the bruja, ha? Thorry.  |
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Post by rberman on Mar 22, 2019 21:44:47 GMT -5
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