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Brian Miller
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Posted: 02 December 2023 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Maybe...but I don't know how!
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GCD suggests Star Brand #1's published cover may have been pencilled by Bret Blevins and inked by Tom Palmer or Al Williamson (looks more like Palmer to me). Marvel Age #47 featured two unused covers to Star Brand #1, JRJR's one and another one one by Blevins and Williamson, which was later used for Star Brand #10.

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Doesn’t look like a Blevins face to me.
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Thanks for the thread title fix. There’s so much going on behind the scenes that “rejected” just seemed disrespectful.
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Yeah, I was thinking that a proposed cover sketch would surely be submitted for approval rather than bothering going through the trouble of a full rendering only to have it be rejected.
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Since we changed the thread title, I can post this one!  I have no idea if it was a commission or what, but I like it!  Gene Colan was the best!
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The thread title change should not be seen as opening the door to posting images that are not really unused covers. I’ve done a truckload of commissions representing imaginary covers, and none of them could tuly count as “unused”.

The thread title change was to make it MORE accurate, not LESS.

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Unused cover for Avengers 37 by interior artist Don Heck, and the published version by Gil Kane.
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I remember reading once where Stan said something to the effect of "Avoid showing the backs of the Heroes on the cover" .  Something about any particular comic may be someone's first and need to catch their eyes.

May have been what happened on the above images.
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I went through a ton of covers for a personal project once and I came across one SPIDER-MAN and one HULK (magazine) cover each with the hero's back to the reader--and it did indeed strike me as a little weird!
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I remember reading once where Stan said something to the effect of "Avoid showing the backs of the Heroes on the cover" . Something about any particular comic may be someone's first and need to catch their eyes.

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My first issue of UNCANNY Chris wrote me a splash page where pretty much everyone had their backs to the camera.

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Mr. Byrne,

Do you have any behind-the-scenes information on why the beautiful X-Factor #2 cover you created was not used (and why the final version is almost identical to your work)? 

Thank you!



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