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Wallace Sellars
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I liked the corner boxes, and if I were still a Marvel reader would enjoy
seeing them again.
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Eric Jansen
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I liked the corner boxes. They meant that no matter what the cover art itself portrayed, the hero would always be present on the cover. It worked especially well for team books--the cover art could spotlight one member (or a villain) while the rest of the team were still up in the corner. The cover could be artsy, the hero's costume could be torn to shreds, a supporting character could be the main figure in peril, etc.
It got a little tricky sometimes if the corner box hero was the same size or pose as he'd be in the main image. DC for a while had a fairly big image of Superman flying above the logo--and sometimes he was bigger there!
Edited by Eric Jansen on 11 March 2017 at 4:11pm
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Philippe Negrin
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Incredible ! ...I just saw for the first time, that Puck was jumping OUT of the corner box...despite having seen and looked at that Alpha Flight cover for about 40 years...Internal personal facepalm.
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Trevor Smith
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So, Philippe, you could say it just sort of leapt out at
you? (PS: fuck you, spell check - "leapt" is perfectly
correct).
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Philippe Negrin
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yes and i meant more than 30 years of course...
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Raj Dhami
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I loved the corner boxes!
Particularly when the creative team made it their own e.g. from X-men 123 (moving to Dave Cockrum's to John / Terry's) and also everything John did on Fantastic Four. At one point I'm sure the cover box changed every issue on FF under John's tenure. For me added a special additional level of detail and "ownership".
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Matthew Wilkie
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Incredible ! ...I just saw for the first time, that Puck was jumping OUT of the corner box...despite having seen and looked at that Alpha Flight cover for about 40 years...Internal personal facepalm.
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If it makes you feel better, Phillipe, it was only when I revisited the cover that I realised that he jumps from behind the logo and then in front of it. With Puck almost exploding off the cover, it gives the image even further depth.
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Brian Hague
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There are 17 figures on that Puck cover, not counting his hairy logo. Characters like Puck, or the Flash, or Spider-Man may as well be team books for the number of times the figures are drawn.
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Mike Norris
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I grew up with the corner box and the banner across the top. That's Marvel to me.
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Brian Hunt
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I liked the corner boxes because most of them contained
John Byrne artwork. If the figures and heads weren't by
JB, the boxes didn't matter to me.
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Jason Larouse
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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.
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Until we got to the 90s and they started putting Wolverine's head in the corner of books that he wasn't in to trick childhood me into buying them!
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Roy Johnson
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Aww, did da poor Marvel zombies lose cover space?
Gaze upon this (awesome) cover by Ernie Chan. Look at how much real estate is eaten up with text.
Edited by Roy Johnson on 13 March 2017 at 9:34pm
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