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Oddly Similar Comic Covers
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Ken Aldred

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On 11/20/2023 at 2:28 PM, Malacoda said:

MWOM #111 is clearly a repasting of GS Defenders #1, the Torch and the Thing have been completely re-drawn to replace Doc & the Surfer, but it looks like someone has used Gil Kane's Subby as the template for DD and just morphed Namor into DD.  

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That’s a good one. At least with the effort to use different figures in the same postures.

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On 11/20/2023 at 4:47 AM, Ken Aldred said:

I’d be interested in seeing more of these if you’ve found any. (thumbsu

 OK, let's end, for the moment, on a corker.   John Romita had only just done this cover for ASM when Tony Isabella re-tooled it as a SMCW cover.  The idea and the drawing of Spidey & the spider come straight off the original.....

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but the characters around the spider have been changed to match what was going on in SMCW that week.....but not with art from the comics it was reprinting.

The Spider Man story is ASM #66, but the picture of Mysterio is tweaked from an interior panel in ASM #67 (he looks better with purple gloves). 

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SMCW #68 reprints the Iron Man story from TOS #51, but the picture of the Mandarin is from an interior panel in TOS #50 

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and it reprints the first part of Thor #132, but the pics of Thor & IM are from the cover of GS Avengers #1

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though I suspect that pic of Iron Man (and variations) originates somewhere else because it was already Iron Man's logo pic by this time. 

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Malacoda

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On 11/20/2023 at 4:47 AM, Ken Aldred said:

I’d be interested in seeing more of these if you’ve found any. (thumbsu

OK, I'm throwing this one out to the group.....Cap & Iron Man are from Avengers #4, but where does Thor come from?  Looks like Kirby inked by Colletta, so probably an interior panel from their Silver Age run on JIM/Thor?  Anyone? Anyone? 

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Kevin.J

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On 11/21/2023 at 6:33 PM, Malacoda said:

OK, I'm throwing this one out to the group.....Cap & Iron Man are from Avengers #4, but where does Thor come from?  Looks like Kirby inked by Colletta, so probably an interior panel from their Silver Age run on JIM/Thor?  Anyone? Anyone? 

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I have had all of the above comics that you compare since I was a kid and I have to say, I didnt notice any of this lol

You are way more observant than me  (worship)(worship)(worship)

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On 11/22/2023 at 1:07 PM, Kevin.J said:

I have had all of the above comics that you compare since I was a kid and I have to say, I didnt notice any of this lol

You are way more observant than me  (worship)(worship)(worship)

There's loads that I didn't notice at the time.  A great one for UK covers is MWOM #129.  Steranko's original artwork made the Hulk look so psychotic with rage that Romita toned it down for KS Special #1, but we got Steranko's original. 

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On 11/22/2023 at 7:19 AM, Malacoda said:

Oddly, the Super Heroes never used Big John's iconic cover from Silver Surfer #1, but for issues 1 & 2, mashes up artwork from the FF. 

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Check the FF copper age cover for FF 72 swipe. There's also a FF 48 swipe

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On 11/21/2023 at 10:33 AM, Malacoda said:

OK, I'm throwing this one out to the group.....Cap & Iron Man are from Avengers #4, but where does Thor come from?  Looks like Kirby inked by Colletta, so probably an interior panel from their Silver Age run on JIM/Thor?  Anyone? Anyone? 

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Giant Size Avengers 1 also homages these cover layouts

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Kevin.J

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On 11/22/2023 at 2:42 PM, Malacoda said:

There's loads that I didn't notice at the time.  A great one for UK covers is MWOM #129.  Steranko's original artwork made the Hulk look so psychotic with rage that Romita toned it down for KS Special #1, but we got Steranko's original. 

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Aw man, thats just great, as a completist, you are killing me lol 

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On 11/23/2023 at 12:09 AM, Kevin.J said:

Aw man, thats just great, as a completist, you are killing me lol 

Well. here's one you probably have. I posted this elsewhere, but it seems to belong with the preceding ones. 

On ASM #79, Peter Parker is getting defenestrated which obviously presents some peril (can't change into Spidey in plain view).  However,  he has suited up in the Marvel Tales reprint, which makes no sense (since when did pushing Spider Man out of a window kill him) and then the UK version retains him being in costume, but changes the shape of the 'to prowl no more' blurb and adds speech bubbles for both Jonah and the Prowler....

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EXCEPT....that's not what happened. The UK reprint actually predates the US reprint, so they redrew PP as Spidey for the UK cover and then retained it for the US MT reprint, putting the 'to prowl no more' blurb back as it was (or just lifting Spidey off the UK plate).  Interesting to note how the colours change. Jonah's suit changes from brown to orange in the UK and back to a paler brown on MT, also his shirt & tie change colour. Also the sky and building are different colours in the UK print and different again in the MT reprint.  

Another fun difference is that for the UK reprint, they had to add more buildings to the NY back drop because the UK covers were wider, but when they did the US reprint, there's actually less of NY even than the original because the title takes up more room. 

Also when they reprinted for MT, they took out the nonsensical speech balloons. 

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