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Bert Kruger
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Brian Miller
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I bought that AS-M issue JUST for the cover. 
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I’d actually done that spidery Spider-Man cover quite a while before it saw print. The editor rejected it, and it languished in a drawer until a new editor decided to use it. Became one of my most popular spider-covers.
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Mike Baswell
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Possibly not an option, but an Artifact Edition of JB covers would be great I think.
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Dave B Stewart
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How about just a collection of JB covers?  

For the ASM 296 cover, it could have come straight out of the 60s.  I distinctly remembering doing a double take when I originally saw it.  Figured it was going to be a reprint and Marvel wanted a new cover to match the tone of it.

It just oozes Ditko weirdness.
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That ASM 296 cover is scary as hell. I love it.

Dave S. is right that it oozes Ditko weirdness, but I think it also has a John Romita feel to it as well. But it seems to be a nearly perfect Spider-Man cover.
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Bert Kruger
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All of these Spider-Man covers are great. Love the #3 and #4 of Web of Spider-Man covers (used to have all the early issues of that series at one time). Somehow I've never seen that Amazing Spider-Man #296 cover which is fantastic. I've been getting all things I can find drawn by JB for almost 20 years and still see stuff I've never seen. So prolific. I don't think it's any secret that the reason there are so many Byrne covers during the 80's is because they sold comics.
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That G.I.Joe cover with Clutch falling is
my favorite from the entire Marvel run.I
wish IDW and Hasbro could come up with a
good idea to relaunch the I.P. with JB on
pencils. I miss G.I. Joe.
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Hope I won’t lose any friends for saying this, but aside from some of the larger vehicular toys I have no interest in the Joes. Those covers were done as a favor to the editor (as were the POWER/FIST covers).
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