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Steve Coates
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | 1
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I just recently pulled Captain America #255 and like every other time I've seen the cover, it struck me as weird. The art is by Frank Miller and Joe Rubinstein. What do you think?
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Steve Coates
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | 2
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Have you experienced the same feeling?
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | 3
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It works for me; an homage to older, simpler times.
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | 4
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Oh, okay.
The hand-holding...?
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Rebecca Jansen
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | 5
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I bought one when it came out circa Christmas 1980 along with X-Men #143. I had been buying Cap when I could find it but I did miss a couple of the Byrne issues earlier.
That cover jumped out at me as it was like an old '40s movie poster, although it could have been more subtly colored for that effect to really come across. That title lettering was new, a change from what had been on the comic for ages, and later they brought it back as the regular cover lettering. If it'd gone straight from this issue into a Stern, Byrne & Rubenstein story with The Invaders two-parter I'd have been really thrilled. I did hang around through some fill-ins and we got Zeck art which I was pretty happy with, and there were eventually some very good stories by DeMatteis.
I wouldn't say Rubenstein brought anything to Frank Miller, although he is one of my favorite inkers for JB... Terry Austin on Miller is pretty weird and I usually like that quite a lot, but Klaus Janson is my ideal Miller inker (and for Colan too). Would I want this original art? Probably not.
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | 6
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What I find weird or odd is the composition. I think it has been flopped. The original is not to be found on the internet. I think it would look better and draw the reader to turn the page if the composition was more like:
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | 7
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This actually raises another question that has never really occurred to me before: which hand does Cap use to hold his shield?
Mike Zeck's OHOMTU pic had him holding the shield using his left arm. Many other pictures show him using his right arm (inlcluding the famous Annual cover versus Wolverine). But not all. It makes sense for throwing, that he would use his right arm (assuming Cap is right handed), but would defend using his left, so that he can more easily punch with his stronger hand -- although obviously Cap can punch with either hand.
Going back to this cover. It is odd they are shaking hands using their left hands, but I'm not convinced it has been flopped. The wings on Cap's head look somehow more natural to me in the as-printed version, where they face to the left.
The original Kirby/Simon Captain American #1 cover has Cap socking Hitler with his right hand and the shield is on his left arm -- which is the way Miller has it on the published cover.
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| Posted: 23 April 2024 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | 8
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That does work better but I'm not sure I can understand why. More of a left to right flow?
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 23 April 2024 at 10:08pm
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Well, for one thing they're shaking right hands like normal people. The left hands are one of the first things I've noticed every time I've seen that cover.
But the action going right and the characters looking right (toward the future rather than the past, in my mind) is also more pleasant to the/my eye.
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I have thought that was a great cover since it was released. Whenever JB drew
an issue, I preferred that he did the cover art as well. This was a rare instance
when I wasn't disappointed!
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I picked up that issue off the stand to look through it because of the cover and it being the 40th anniversary. But JB's artwork on the inside is the reason I bought it.
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| Posted: 24 April 2024 at 7:23am | IP Logged | 12
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The swastika (armband) is accurate on the published cover, but turned the wrong way on the flip. It could have been altered, I suppose, but it's so small that it's likely to have been left alone even if wrong.
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