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Comics Cover Credits?

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Zonker

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I don't think we've done this one before...

 

On another thread I was commenting about how DC hyped Kirby's arrival on the cover of the "Fourth World" books:

 

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While common nowadays to put big-name creators' names on the covers, that was pretty unusual at the time. I remember a couple of issues of DC Special singling out Infantino and Kubert, but that's about all from DC up until the "Kirby is Here!" mania.

 

The earliest Marvel I've found with a cover credit is

 

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(courtesy Grand Comics Database)

 

I guess at that time EC fandom was in full swing, and Woody's name was in the spotlight for that reason?

 

So... my questions:

 

1) What's the earliest cover credit you know of? I'm not counting signatures on the cover, or a byline as part of the cover logo such as "Will Eisner's Spirit" or "Hal Foster's Prince Valiant." It has to be a cover blurb hyping the name of one of the creators.

 

2) Other Silver Age examples apart from Daredevil 5 ?

 

Thanks!

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893applaud-thumb.gif Thanks!

 

I wondered if there might be an early S&K cover credit out there. I believe they were the first of the creators to be wooed away from one company to another way back when (and no doubt negotiated their by-line as a result).

 

Any earlier, anyone?

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