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Robert Bradley
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Adam - That's a "2018"
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Bill Collins
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Steranko`s pic look as if Superman is about to `snog`
the Stars and Stripes!
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Adam Schulman
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Here's a preview of a Dan Jurgens/Kevin Nowlan wrap-around cover for ACTION #1000.

I think Knowlan kinda messed-up Jurgens' attempt to draw a Wayne Boring-style Superman, but otherwise I really like this.
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The original is... fine. It's original.

The next three, variations among them, surely, but... it's Superman, and consistently so, from the 40s through JB in the 80s.

The next two...?!?! WHAT THE...?! 

I suppose that neatly sums up what happened to comicbooks back then!
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Michael, when you say the original, do you the Shuster treatment of Superman, or the rocket from Krypton?

I don't dislike any of the images excessively, and I feel that I can identify most of them... but I frankly feel that Art Thibert etc., would have been a far better choice to ink this than Kevin Nowlan. Nowlan does a nice, dark effect, and for certain styles of Superman stories (such as "Superman vs. Alien", "Superman vs. Predator", "Superman vs Terminator"), that type of inks would be swell.

But Boring-esque or Swan-esque are insulted by this type of inking, I feel. The standard I would put up against this is "Infinite Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds", in the Superman museum, where Mr. Perez drew variations on Superman, with the artists identified in Interlac... which I remember a tiny bit of to match up to "Swan", "Byren", "Shuster", etc.
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I meant the original Superman costume, Eric. It's the first, so it's fine. The standard that followed it for decades is the great costume. 
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The face of the foreground/modern Superman on that Jurgens-Nowlan cover gives me a distinct Boris Karloff vibe. Which is unfortunate, because I kind of like the rest of it.
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I do like that the JB Superman is recognizable by the pose alone.
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Adam Schulman
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Nowlan is a great artist but his inks tend to overpower other people's pencils. Even Gil Kane's!

The Shuster, Swan and Byrne-style Supermen (Supermans?) are still recognizable. 
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And yet another one! (I think)


Hard to not like this one!
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Adam, I think you have to log into the site to see what you are trying to share
with that link.
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Wallace Sellars
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I agree that the fourth Superman looks like JB's. It would look better to my
eyes if the artist had drawn him flying upward a bit to better segue from the
figure before it.

The face on the foremost Superman is a little creepy.
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