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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 16, 2019 0:27:00 GMT -5
We might have better participation with a few more clues. I have NEVER spent so much time trying to think of ways to search for an appropriate cover. I'd give up and then try again a few hours later. Eventually, I searched for "Classic Comics" and "Scotland" hoping that a Sir Walter Scott adaptation that I hadn't already looked for might show up, and I got The Scottish Chiefs. (Which isn't Sir Walter Scott.) I was thinking it had already been used, but then I remembered that Classic Comics would reprint their stories years later with different covers. I've found a few in the least likely of places... Looney Tunes-related titles, for example. That's the last hint... I mean it.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 16, 2019 1:02:29 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Dec 16, 2019 1:49:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree that in my cover Kull isn't wearing an actual kilt. I only posted it because I saw other people were interpreting the word loosely and I couldn't think of anything else (my personal rule for these contests is that I only post covers that I remember myself, even if only in a very vague sense, without doing a key-word search to find something appropriate for the week's subject).
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 16, 2019 4:30:24 GMT -5
That's true, but believe it or not, a little bird told me that there are several other Dell/Gold Key/Western/Whitman titles with kilt covers... And they're not all film or classic literature adaptations either. Just saying. And this is where my hint-dropping ends.(cue tuneless whistling here) Mark Twain even went so far as to blame Scott for the Civil War! Twain hated Scott, and Romanticism in general, which is why he named the wrecked steamboat in Huck Finn the Walter aScott. He hated Cooper, too; his parody of Cooper is a scream. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 16, 2019 9:14:21 GMT -5
Mark Twain even went so far as to blame Scott for the Civil War! Twain hated Scott, and Romanticism in general, which is why he named the wrecked steamboat in Huck Finn the Walter aScott. He hated Cooper, too; his parody of Cooper is a scream. Add Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane Austen to the list too... Twain was pretty much the Master Curmudgeon when it came to romanticism. come to think of it, outside of “Uncle Dan” Beard, Helen Keller and U.S. Grant, I think Samuel Clemens hated pretty much everybody.  |
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Post by MDG on Dec 16, 2019 9:45:27 GMT -5
There are far less Uncle Scrooge in a kilt covers in existence than I'd have imagined. I thought that too, but since he doesn't wear pants, why would he feel the need for a kilt? |
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 16, 2019 9:46:51 GMT -5
Twain hated Scott, and Romanticism in general, which is why he named the wrecked steamboat in Huck Finn the Walter aScott. He hated Cooper, too; his parody of Cooper is a scream. Add Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane Austen to the list too... Twain was pretty much the Master Curmudgeon when it came to romanticism. come to think of it, outside of “Uncle Dan” Beard, Helen Keller and U.S. Grant, I think Samuel Clemens hated pretty much everybody. He was also an early believer in the "Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare" canard. But I still love him, for Huck, "The War Prayer," Letters from the Earth, "The Mysterious Stranger" and a score of other stories and novels. |
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Post by foxley on Dec 17, 2019 3:35:45 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 17, 2019 3:44:42 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Dec 17, 2019 4:33:02 GMT -5
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surprisingly tough choice for me this week: I was very tempted by the Bushmiller cover, the MoKF, Rob Allen's Gold Key one, ...
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 17, 2019 6:24:52 GMT -5
EdoBosnar and the great Batman drawing by Quitely.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 17, 2019 7:36:11 GMT -5
Mister Spaceman
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 7:39:07 GMT -5
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Post by DubipR on Dec 17, 2019 8:34:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 8:53:20 GMT -5
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