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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2022 8:12:54 GMT -5
Is it too late to report these covers to the Advertising Standards Authority?
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Post by majestic on Jul 1, 2022 10:34:13 GMT -5
 I remember buying this issue when it came out. I never felt "cheated" or mislead by the cover. Instead when I read the story I was excited to discover it was an Earth 2 story. I was a big fan of DC's Earth 2 and loved stories involving those characters. |
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Post by james on Jul 2, 2022 1:15:54 GMT -5
 I remember being so excited to see a Sasquatch vs Thing battle when I saw this cover. Only to have it be the Super Skrull. I liked SS enough but back then I was all about Thing. |
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Post by james on Jul 2, 2022 1:18:29 GMT -5
The Avengers #59 (December, 1968).  The issue featured a misleading cover in that the flashback to Yellowjacket's "defeat" of Goliath was merely Pym spinning a tale for the sake of the other Avengers, so the cover--great as it is--suggests a kind of conflict that never happened. I love this cover to the extent I’m going to get it blown up and framed. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 2, 2022 6:07:04 GMT -5
That was the first issue of Avengers I ever bought new.
Cei-U!
I summon the 10-year-old me!
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Post by The Captain on Jul 2, 2022 6:20:44 GMT -5
driver1980 - I had been thinking about doing a thread exactly like this entitled "The Old Bait and Switch" for a while now, but life has kept me busy and I never got around to it. Thanks for getting it started! badwolf - my inspiration for the thread I'd hoped to start was that exact same Alpha Flight comic. I bought it out of the $1 bins recently, because I'm a sucker for weird, little used villains (Diablo, U-Foes, Psycho Man, etc.) and was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed when I read it and found that it was all a flashback in Gilded Lily's origin story. Sure, it was only $1, but I still felt cheated.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2022 7:16:25 GMT -5
driver1980 - I had been thinking about doing a thread exactly like this entitled "The Old Bait and Switch" for a while now, but life has kept me busy and I never got around to it. Thanks for getting it started! Good to see you here! I’d been thinking about doing it for a while. I wanted to make sure I distinguished between the misleading covers and the symbolic ones. Even as a kid, I knew dead heroes on a cover wouldn’t be dead/stay dead. But, as we’ve hopefully shown here, what has been shared is in the realm of misleading. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2022 9:23:58 GMT -5
Incidentally, 1980s VHS covers and wrestling posters could be just as misleading. I remember seeing a poster for a WCW event that featured a wrestler who didn’t even appear at the event (I don’t believe he was planned to, he was just a big name - Roddy Piper - that some lazy WCW employee included without thinking about it).
There were some 80s VHS covers that featured action NOT seen in the films. It felt like whoever was commissioned to do the artwork for the tapes hadn’t been informed of what the film was about - or hadn’t seen it.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 2, 2022 11:04:35 GMT -5
Big special issue every Avenger fan was waiting anxiously. Last issue for Steve Englehart's run. Grab it off the racks and race home to read...6 pages of new material and 12 pages of reprints. Sucker   |
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Post by jason on Jul 2, 2022 19:20:49 GMT -5
 Ok, first, none of the three Joes pictured on the cover (Lady Jaye, Sci-Fi, Flint) were the brainwashed ones. Second, while the two brainwashed ones (Clutch and Rock and Roll) DO enter the Pit, it's at the end of the story, setting up the next issue's plot. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 2, 2022 19:28:39 GMT -5
Incidentally, 1980s VHS covers and wrestling posters could be just as misleading. I remember seeing a poster for a WCW event that featured a wrestler who didn’t even appear at the event (I don’t believe he was planned to, he was just a big name - Roddy Piper - that some lazy WCW employee included without thinking about it). There were some 80s VHS covers that featured action NOT seen in the films. It felt like whoever was commissioned to do the artwork for the tapes hadn’t been informed of what the film was about - or hadn’t seen it. The case I had for the original film, The Wrestler (with Ed Asner, as a promoter and Verne Gagne as the world champion) has images from something short 20 years later, though Asner appears on the back cover. If you want really bad, I picked up Genesis 2 and Earth 2, at the same time, from the Warner Archive (in the early days) and Genesis 2 had still images from some entirely different movie, in either the front or back cover. They fixed it, later. |
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Post by badwolf on Jul 2, 2022 19:33:13 GMT -5
badwolf - my inspiration for the thread I'd hoped to start was that exact same Alpha Flight comic. I bought it out of the $1 bins recently, because I'm a sucker for weird, little used villains (Diablo, U-Foes, Psycho Man, etc.) and was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed when I read it and found that it was all a flashback in Gilded Lily's origin story. Sure, it was only $1, but I still felt cheated. Ah well... hope you still enjoyed the story!
I like all of those villains too!
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Post by badwolf on Jul 2, 2022 19:36:36 GMT -5
Big special issue every Avenger fan was waiting anxiously. Last issue for Steve Englehart's run. Grab it off the racks and race home to read...6 pages of new material and 12 pages of reprints. Sucker  That reminds me of this one... a couple framing bits were added at the beginning and end, but the main body was a reprint. Nothing like this cover happens in the issue:
Many years later I learned that it was a victim of dreaded deadline doom.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 11:11:04 GMT -5
Not a misleading cover as such, more of a “fun entry” in this topic:  When I first saw this on the shelves, I was tempted to say to the comic store guy, “Is Spider-Man teaming up with the A-Team in this one?” Those webs are a peculiar addition to that cover. |
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Post by jason on Jul 3, 2022 12:19:51 GMT -5
Not a misleading cover as such, more of a “fun entry” in this topic: When I first saw this on the shelves, I was tempted to say to the comic store guy, “Is Spider-Man teaming up with the A-Team in this one?” Those webs are a peculiar addition to that cover. I think it's supposed to be a concrete wall being smashed. |
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