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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 4, 2020 13:52:42 GMT -5
Remember back in the early 1980s (the late summer of 1980 and the autumn/winter of 1981 to be precise) when the covers of your favorite Marvel comics had those obnoxious banner ads right on top, often ruining some otherwise gorgeous cover art? You know, one of these:
So, you mission this week - should you choose to accept it - is to find me some of those excellent covers marred by these marketing atrocities. No restrictions: it can be any series, it just has to be a Marvel comic with one of those *#$&%$*!℅ℓ☼€₯ⅎ₤@* banners! To start off, here's possibly the only one of these covers not made any worse by the banner ad:
Rules: Post one classic cover that fits the theme of the contest. Cover must be from a published comic book or collected volume published before March 2010. Covers must be posted before voting begins. Voting takes place on Tuesday, March 10th, beginning at 12:01 am PST and ending at 11:59 pm PST. Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or whose cover you simply like the best. Put your choice's name in bold. The winner of the contest is the entrant with the most votes after the voting period ends. The winner chooses the theme for the next week's contest. If you don't think a cover fits the theme, don't vote for it. Please don't post disparaging remarks about it. If a cover is more recent than the classic time frame, kindly point that out so that the poster can choose an alternate before voting begins. Two posters may not use the same cover.
Have fun!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2020 14:00:14 GMT -5
-M
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 4, 2020 14:07:00 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 4, 2020 14:54:19 GMT -5
I remember this as the best cover (Michael Golden)... Bonus, original art:
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 4, 2020 14:57:14 GMT -5
Not an entry but here is what those *#$&%$*!℅ℓ☼€₯ⅎ₤@* banners robbed people of as the Avengers Annual #10 cover!
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Post by tarkintino on Mar 4, 2020 15:33:09 GMT -5
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Post by foxley on Mar 4, 2020 15:33:56 GMT -5
Definitely not improved by the addition of the ad: (I honestly could not bring myself to use Avengers #200 for this contest)
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Mar 4, 2020 15:37:49 GMT -5
Not an entry but here is what those *#$&%$*!℅ℓ☼€₯ⅎ₤@* banners robbed people of as the Avengers Annual #10 cover! Is...is that actual art of what could have been?!
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Post by rberman on Mar 4, 2020 15:46:27 GMT -5
Not an entry but here is what those *#$&%$*!℅ℓ☼€₯ⅎ₤@* banners robbed people of as the Avengers Annual #10 cover! Is...is that actual art of what could have been?! Yes, this is the cover that Golden submitted.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2020 15:51:23 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 4, 2020 15:56:36 GMT -5
Okay. This is my entry. Not an entry...but I had never seen this comic before. Wow...this post was a mess.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 4, 2020 16:09:39 GMT -5
And the original, just so you can see the effect of that wretched banner:
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Post by tarkintino on Mar 4, 2020 16:15:20 GMT -5
And the original, just so you can see the effect of that wretched banner: ...and the bar code. That was always a distraction on Marvel's reprint titles.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 4, 2020 16:21:48 GMT -5
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Post by badwolf on Mar 4, 2020 16:23:46 GMT -5
Golden years...go-o-o-wop wop wop
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