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Bert Kruger
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John Byrne
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I see no box.
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Anthony J Lombardi
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That was disappointing. I thought the link would be about Joe Jusko and the new paintings he had done. I hope this isn't considered high jacking the thread. If it is I'll remove the link.
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Doug Centers
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Corner isosceles triangle art.
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Matt Hawes
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I do miss the old corner boxes and welcome the return of them, or even something like them. Since Steve Ditko first came up with the idea, it had been a defining feature to Marvel Comics.
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John Byrne
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I was not a fan of the corner boxes. When they first appeared, the logos shrank, and I really liked those BIG side-to-side logos.
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Robert Bradley
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I wasn't a big fan of the rectangular corner box, but I did like the small figure in the upper corner from the 70's. In some cases they were able to work around a larger logo, although in some instances (like Captain America) they could get a little intrusive.-
Edited by Robert Bradley on 10 March 2017 at 8:29pm
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Flavio Sapha
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The worst thing was when it became cool to subvert the corner box and
they did some stuff that detracted from the cover art...like that crying
Watcher on a Classic X-Men cover...ruined it!
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Shane Matlock
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My favorite thing about the corner box was how many of them featured heads by John Byrne.
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Matthew Wilkie
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I always thought the corner boxes worked best for team books, with the headshots telling you the current line-up or, in the case of AF, which members were to be featured.
That said, this might just be my favourite use of the corner box:
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John Byrne
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The idea behind the corner boxes was a simple one: spinner racks. As a kid is flipping thru the possibly jumbled issues in a particular pocket, he might miss an issue he was looking for if there was not something up there in the corner to identify it.Or so the thinking went. That was not a problem I ever experienced, but, as we all know, I am a nearly supernatural genius, so I can handle spinner racks easily. Thing is, in addition to shrinking the logos (most of which already reached into that upper left corner), the corner boxes made the cover seem unnecessarily busy to my eyes. And once marvel started putting the cover art itself into boxes (as seen in that MARVEL FEATURE cover, above) the whole thing became a jumbled mess.
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John Popa
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Hmm, I would have thought the corner boxes were more for the long magazine racks/shelves where most of the cover might be covered by over-lapping of books to best utilize space. The logo may be covered but the corner may still be seen if the books are staggered across one another.
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