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Brandon Carter
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Did this cover make anyone else think of the grocery chain Kroger?
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Yup!
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Wallace Sellars
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Double yup!
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Matt Hawes
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"KROGARR," The new mascot for Kroger Groceries! Buy from us, or he'll eat you!"
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Michael Penn
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What's that white "thing" in the wreckage on the left? Just debris... or something else? Almost looks skeleton-ish, but that can't be right.
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Nathan Greno
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Charles Nago: Nathan, In my opinion, a cover's primary
purpose is to sell the book by grabbing your attention. Many times the
cover shows a scene from the story (but not always, as the Deceptive
Cover thread suggests). A pin-up, as far as I can tell is a bonus for the fan . . . allowing the artist to "show off". I don't think, in this case, a rose by another name is still a rose.
I was making a joke :)
Pin-ups are another one of those "fun" things that are missing from comics these days. When I was a kid I cut out the Guardian drawing from Alpha Flight #3 and tacked it to my wall. I used to look at it every day -- it made me happy! A few years ago I bought the original art from that page. A childhood dream come true!!! :) :) :)
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John Harris
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Great topic Charles! I love the old marvel pin ups also. Here are a couple of Ditko classics I remembered liking alot as a kid. They are from reprints of Amazing Spider-man Annual 1 & 2.
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Brad Brickley
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One of the earliest back issues I ever bought was Spider-Man Annual 1. It was a beat-up, tattered copy I paid about $10.00 for. I still have it somewhere. I thought I scored the day I found that.
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John Harris
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One of the earliest back issues I ever bought was Spider-Man Annual 1.
Brad Brickley
I love that one too Brad.That issue may be my all time favorite Spider-man issue ever. It really did have almost everything you could want ...villians, guest stars, humor, and fantastic Ditko artwork!
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Richard Patton
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Love every image I'm seeing here. Damn, Ditko was good! That Sandman
is about to come off the screen at me. I remember a fair length series of
his pin-ups for the Spider-Man foes. Does anyone have the rest?
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Brad Monje
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I was just thinking the other day, what a great sculpture that Kiby pin-up of the Think would make. I first saw that pin-up in a pocket book collection of FF #1-6. It als had pin-ups of the other three members. I always like the Reed Richards page, because it was one where he demonstrated and explained his powers for the curious fans that had been writing in. I remember seeing one or two where Spider-Man did the same.
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John Byrne
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Let's read the copy on that Sandman pin-up, and
contemplate later "ineterpretations" of the character.
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John Byrne
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Now, THAT is a THING! What a pity that version didn't last.++++ Interesting that you think it's a pity, JB - I think that The Thing's paving stone look is one of the greatest and most distinctive designs in comics...so few artists - aside from Kirby and you of course - could draw it 'right' *** Don't be too quick to misunderstand me, Ian. You'd have to travel a long way to find a bigger fan of the Thing's "rocky" look than me -- but the very fact that it can be called "rocky" or "paving stone" indicates where the character has gone "wrong". If Ben had emerged from the crash looking as he does today, I cannot imagine anyone dubbing him "the Thing". "Rockpile" maybe. "Sandstone". "Granite". Basically anything with a rocky motif. But he no longer has the undefinable monstrousness that would leave people stumped for anything to call him but -- as Sue did -- a "Thing". Side Note -- when I was a wee lad in England my father and uncle paved the small front yard (about 4'x8') of my grandparent's house with what was known as "crazy paving". Looked sorta like this: 
Portents of things to come, huh? (Pun intended.) Incidentally, for those seeking the "trick" to it, when I draw the Thing, I think of a dry riverbed, like so: 
Too many people -- including, it seems, many put in charge of sculpting the Thing for toys -- think of his hide a cobblestones. Not right at all!
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