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Got these two oldies in the mail today. It's been a while since I've seen Red labels. Both graded 1/4/2001

Jimmy Durante 1 (UK) Does anyone under 50 even know who this guy was?

I couldn't resist... I "needed" to pick this one up.

Marwood..... or possibly "Mr Holmes". Well done.

And it's definitely a foreign comic since that's the cover to Action 245, unless..... a promotion comic?

I completely agree with you about low resolution hiding or slightly changing things.... but it's clear that unless there's some kind of "tape pull" that's altered the type, the "Shrinking Superman" copy is completely different and perhaps there's a different title. I would love this mystery to be solved.

In the photo it doesn't appear to have the title, "The Shrinking Superman" which really makes it a mystery.

I didn't even see that. It makes it even better.

Yes! I think "Deliberate" is a word to attach to the definition.

But this Swipe by Bob Kane for Detective 27 is NOT an Homage.... Bob Kane couldn't draw so he swiped everything

I see a swipe/steal as more of a lazy artist trying to meet a deadline. I see an Homage as inspired by another artist, and possibly honoring a previous piece of work, but I don't think any ad copy needs to be noted if its obvious. There's simply no doubt that this Mary Jane cover is an Homage to Avengers 57. No extra ad copy is needed.

The ironic thing is that Avengers 57 is a cover that has had SO many covers created as an Homage to it, and yet IT is an Homage itself.

I'm trying to differentiate between all the Swipes, which I don't see as "Homage", with a cover that's an intentional Homage. Even Action 8..... seems like more of a "swipe to meet a deadline" than an homage. Although... most "swiped" art gets changed a bit to try to disguise the swipe, and Guardineer's cover swipe is not changed... so maybe it is an homage. I guess it's tough to know for sure in some cases.

Congrats. That's a valuable book.

The label says cover swipe, but I think this could be an Homage cover.

What comic cover is considered the first "Homage" cover? I'm not talking a blatant steal, I'm talking an actual homage by an artist in referencing a prior artist's work to honor it and not to steal from it. I know there's lots of Homage covers in the Bronze age and I'm sure there's at least a few from the Silver age (Avengers 57 comes to mind where the cover image is an homage to the first drawing of the Golden age Vision in MMC 13). Are there any examples of homage covers in the Golden age?

Ended up going for $600 + buyers premium of 17%

And yet..... he's swinging thru the city with no problem, and is adept enough that both Electro & the Vulture think he's the real thing. Give me web-shooters and I assure you I could not swing thru the city. I agree that he has no spidey-strength or spidey-sense though.

So Duane gave her the suit?

Yes, just scratch out where he says "Duane" and ink in "Miles" Great page

Any identification help on these 4 Gobots/transformers figures would be greatly appreciated.

I was paging thru a Bronze comic from 1974 and saw this "Black Spider-man" and thought, "Miles Morales?" Obviously, no. It did make me think it might be the 1st Black Spiderman though. Would that make it a minor key? Guess what comic I found it in....

Thanks Zzutak, that was super interesting. In the last paragraph the author says he considers these Gilberton Classics to actually be WECA books even though his definition of a WECA book says they go from "March 1941 to the end of 1946" and these Classics start in 1947. Hmmmm....

I feel dumb..... what is "Post-WECA"?