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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 21 November 2023 at 10:22am | IP Logged | 1
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Here's an interesting one! The original by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer was delayed in the mail, so an emergency cover was pieced together with figures from previous issues on top of a photo of New York City. The original was finally colored and used for the cover of a TwoMorrows magazine.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 21 November 2023 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | 2
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Those, er, strange days of the good Doctor as an actual superhero!!
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 22 November 2023 at 10:18am | IP Logged | 3
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One of the most historic (in B&W and with new colors)...
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 22 November 2023 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | 4
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Here's the original Marie Severin cover for CAPTAIN AMERICA #125 and the Marie Severin cover that ended up being used. I'm a little surprised by this one--the first shows an exciting, more victorious Cap, while the second shows a rare defeated hero. But I suppose that was the point.
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 23 November 2023 at 8:48am | IP Logged | 5
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Here's the original cover from HULK SPECIAL #1, which I believe is by Marie Severin (with or without Herb Trimpe?). A lot of detail and nicely finished, but replaced by the simpler but more iconic Steranko version--which I can go into any Hobby Lobby today and buy a large canvas reproduction of that will fill half my living room wall! But I guess Marie had "the last laugh" after all since she was called in to alter the Hulk's face.
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Wallace Sellars
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| Posted: 23 November 2023 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | 6
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I prefer all three rejected covers Eric shared in his last three posts. The fact that Ditko's original cover wasn't used is criminal.
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 24 November 2023 at 10:32am | IP Logged | 7
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Here's some original art by P. Craig Russell and the hardly different--but I would say more polished--final cover (with Clea added) by Dave Cockrum.
Edited by Eric Jansen on 24 November 2023 at 10:34am
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Peter Martin
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Wow, seeing that P Craig Russel image in isolation, I never would have guessed it was from the 70s. There's something in the style of the details in the inking that conjures the 90s Image style.
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 24 November 2023 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | 9
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Here's an interesting example of (probably) a self-canceled cover! It looks like Neal Adams didn't like the cover he did for this new collection of his non-Batman DC work--or at least he didn't like Robin's pose! So, he did an overlay with a new In-your-face Robin. I can't say that the new one is much better than the original--both would have worked fine, but I appreciate the extra effort!
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Rebecca Jansen
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| Posted: 25 November 2023 at 3:20am | IP Logged | 10
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I have that Dr. Strange Annual and would've preferred the unused Russell cover.
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 25 November 2023 at 10:18am | IP Logged | 11
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This one is sort of amazing! As I understand it, for IRON MAN #23, the planned cover (by Marie Severin) was made an interior page and an interior page (the splash page, by George Tuska & Mike Esposito) was bumped up to be the cover!
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 26 November 2023 at 2:51am | IP Logged | 12
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Here's another MS. MARVEL (#19) example, where the Dave Cockrum/Bob Layton original was replaced by a John Romita Jr./Joe Rubinstein piece.
Edited by Eric Jansen on 26 November 2023 at 8:40am
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