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Post by jason on Sept 8, 2021 0:38:37 GMT -5
So I found this video on Marvel's corner box art:
Made me think, what were some of your fav corner boxes?
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Post by badwolf on Sept 8, 2021 9:50:59 GMT -5
Cool video. The Byrne heads will always be the definitive corner box images for me. I liked when he changed them up (various action shots) on FF too.
I also liked when they had fun with them, like the Hulk one mentioned. I had forgotten how many Bill Sienkiewicz had done that were unconventional.
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 8, 2021 13:04:27 GMT -5
I loved early Creepy corner box art; Warren's horror magazines (pre-1969) started off with corner boxes also featuring the title, but once the character symbol took root, that remained a feature on the covers until their cancellation. Arguably one of the longest run for character box art. A sample from Creepy; note the changes in art style for Uncle Creepy over the years, where the final version (far right) was painted, instead of the ink work from issues #2 - 3:  |
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Post by String on Sept 8, 2021 13:25:29 GMT -5
Loved the corner boxes of Avengers & X-Men with their rotating headshots of members. Other than the cover itself, it was a quick and easy way to see who was on the team(s) roster every issue.
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 9, 2021 20:07:29 GMT -5
I don't think the corner boxes on Marvel's spookier books get enough love:  |
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 9, 2021 21:07:50 GMT -5
I don't think the corner boxes on Marvel's spookier books get enough love: Well, with the exception of Man-Thing's corner box art, the rest were sort of generic horror images, almost like that which is used on Halloween-themed merchandising, including Marvel's Frankenstein. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 9, 2021 23:19:25 GMT -5
I don't think the corner boxes on Marvel's spookier books get enough love: Those are definitely some of my favourites. As a kid I used to like the Werewolf by Night one, though the pose looks a little odd to me now. Kull was another favourite, and that one still looks good to me. I'll try to find some images later of the ones I remember best. I mostly favoured the full or half-length portraits over the floating heads, though Byrne's weren't bad. So for team books, I liked it when they just chose an individual member to represent the group as a whole. |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 10, 2021 0:14:39 GMT -5
I don't think the corner boxes on Marvel's spookier books get enough love: Those are definitely some of my favourites. As a kid I used to like the Werewolf by Night one, though the pose looks a little odd to me now. Kull was another favourite, and that one still looks good to me. I'll try to find some images later of the ones I remember best. I mostly favoured the full or half-length portraits over the floating heads, though Byrne's weren't bad. So for team books, I liked it when they just chose an individual member to represent the group as a whole. when they changed to Vision phasing out of the Avengers corner box, that was one of the best! |
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Post by berkley on Sept 10, 2021 1:32:25 GMT -5
Those are definitely some of my favourites. As a kid I used to like the Werewolf by Night one, though the pose looks a little odd to me now. Kull was another favourite, and that one still looks good to me. I'll try to find some images later of the ones I remember best. I mostly favoured the full or half-length portraits over the floating heads, though Byrne's weren't bad. So for team books, I liked it when they just chose an individual member to represent the group as a whole. when they changed to Vision phasing out of the Avengers corner box, that was one of the best!
Yeah I liked that one and I remember liking the old Thor one from the 60s better than the 70s one, though I'll have to go back and check to make sure I have that right. the Daredevil from the 60s was nice too, and the Romita Spider-Man that was already posted in the thread. I'll have to take a good survey to remind myself of the ones I liked back then.
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Post by MDG on Sept 10, 2021 8:17:49 GMT -5
Joe Jusko did a series of painted versions of corner boxes. A local guy has been selling prints of them (maybe 14" high) for years.  The ironic part is: if they were prints of the original line art, I'd be more inclined to get them |
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 10, 2021 10:00:33 GMT -5
I don't think the corner boxes on Marvel's spookier books get enough love: Well, with the exception of Man-Thing's corner box art, the rest were sort of generic horror images, almost like that which is used on Halloween-themed merchandising, including Marvel's Frankenstein. I can't deny that, but there was something cool about giving all these titles a unique (usually) horrific icon that I could really dig. The JIM boatman was a real favorite, which was re-used on a different title, and I think the Frankenstein one, generic as it may be, was far more moody and evocative than the cover art on most of the issues. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 10, 2021 10:25:50 GMT -5
A reminder, courtesy tarkintino 's post here: classiccomics.org/thread/6538/who-best-company-logos-marvel?page=2 that DC started to bring back corner images of their characters as early as issues in September 1968. They started with Action, Adventure, and Detective, maybe because the main character's name wasn't in the title, and so might be overlooked if comics were displayed overlapping each other on a shelf. Within a few months, we see corner images, or a variation on them, appear on Superboy, World's Finest, JLA,Tomahawk, Flash, Green Lantern, and by the August '69 issues, on Phantom Stranger, Bat Lash, Witching Hour,and both Houses ( Secrets and Mystery). The Showcase logo also changed to feature an enormous DC in a blazing circle. Not sure if this was something that spread from editor to editor, because some titles, like the war and romance lines, were late to the party, but by 1971, there was some art in the upper left corner of the whole line, so maybe there was a company-wide policy. NB: Thank you, Mike, @mike's Amazing Newsstand! |
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