The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982) 15 15

[Get Marwood & I]

Redrawn cover?

[Malacoda]

I'll leave it for a day so everyone can take a swing at it.  Check back tomorrow for the exciting answer. If you can bear the suspense. 

[Malacoda]

On 10/17/2023 at 1:19 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Redrawn cover?

Keep going....you're very warm. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/17/2023 at 1:32 PM, Malacoda said:

I'll leave it for a day so everyone can take a swing at it.  Check back tomorrow for the exciting answer. If you can bear the suspense. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/17/2023 at 1:33 PM, Malacoda said:

On 10/17/2023 at 1:19 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Redrawn cover?

Keep going....you're very warm. 

By redrawn I meant completely new. If the opposite is how you took it. 

[Malacoda]

On 10/17/2023 at 1:37 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

By redrawn I meant completely new. If the opposite is how you took it. 

No, completely new is the right direction. 

[themagicrobot]

Perhaps the Scarlet Witch is depicted on the cover but doesn’t feature in the actual story?

[Malacoda]

On 10/17/2023 at 2:13 PM, themagicrobot said:

Perhaps the Scarlet Witch is depicted on the cover but doesn’t feature in the actual story?

A clever and subtle answer because sometimes they did re-edit the reprints so even someone who was in the original could get chopped out.  

But no. 

Edited October 17, 2023 by Malacoda

[themagicrobot]

1960s DCs often had misleading covers. Is that Blackhawk top right? He doesn’t feature in this comic. Nor do the JLA. I think the only person on this cover inside the book besides the Inferior Five is Robin ( for a couple of panels). And how can Superman and Superboy be side by side. See also issues of Wonder Woman where she teams up with Wonder Tot who was supposed to be Ww when she was a child according to Kanigher.

Edited October 17, 2023 by themagicrobot

[themagicrobot]

Regarding the MTA 29, clutching at straws here. Perhaps the Comic Code stamp has been pushed out and down from its usual position due to the “Still 25 cents” logo?

[Malacoda]

On 10/17/2023 at 3:38 PM, themagicrobot said:

Regarding the MTA 29, clutching at straws here. Perhaps the Comic Code stamp has been pushed out and down from its usual position due to the “Still 25 cents” logo?

That is true and a good spot, but not unique.  Not even unique for MTA. 

Edited October 17, 2023 by Malacoda

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/17/2023 at 1:10 PM, Malacoda said:

I've probably bored you with this one before, but just in case I haven't, can anyone tell the class what's unique about this cover? 

Is it something to do with the combination of Kirby and Adkins - only Avengers cover they did, something like that?

[Malacoda]

On 10/17/2023 at 4:58 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Is it something to do with the combination of Kirby and Adkins - only Avengers cover they did, something like that?

Lamentably not.... 

 

But stay on Kirby, you're heading in the right direction.  

Edited October 17, 2023 by Malacoda

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/17/2023 at 5:12 PM, Malacoda said:

Lamentably not.... 

I said something like that, not actually that. No need to show off.

Kirby old school aside, is it that the Wasp is the only one without an enormous letter of the alphabet on her forehead?

 

[Malacoda]

Yes. You got me.  That was it.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/17/2023 at 5:27 PM, Malacoda said:

Yes. You got me.  That was it.

[themagicrobot]

Two pages missing from the story. They often did that with the reprints, particularly Marvel Tales where they even rearranged/removed panels making plots incomprehensible.

[rakehell]

On 10/16/2023 at 5:45 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Ring any bells?

Just a tinkle. 

I went back through a load of posts looking for it & I don't remember a third of my own entries.  I need to work less.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/18/2023 at 10:58 AM, rakehell said:

Just a tinkle. 

I went back through a load of posts looking for it & I don't remember a third of my own entries.  I need to work less.

It's terrible isn't it. The amount of times I go back and think "Who wrote that sh--" and then go "Oh, it was me" 

[Malacoda]

OK, here comes the answer.....

 

In the 1960’s, Kirby was Marvel’s pre-eminent artist, but also by some margin the pre-eminent cover artist (he did runs of 101 straight FF covers, no exceptions, 95 JIM/Thor covers with 3 exceptions, about 80% of TOS,  76% of TTA,  as well as Avengers, Xmen, DD, ST & Sgt Fury and others). 

In the 1970’s,  Marvel became the reprint kings, with many dedicated reprint titles (MT, MTA, MDF, MA, MGC, MSA, MS, MSH and all the monster titles), some headline titles that became all reprint (Xmen, ST, Sgt Fury) and, of course, all the one-off  ‘dreaded deadline doom’ reprints. 

In many cases, they created new covers.  Quite exactly what determined if a comic got a new cover or not was pretty baffling.  Some horrendous covers were kept outright or just ‘pepped up’ a bit, while some properly iconic covers were replaced. I mean, these are great covers…..

 

but seriously, who looked at 48 and 49 and decided they needed replacing?   50 maybe. 

 

The pre-eminent cover artist of Marvel in the 70’s was of course, Gil Kane.  So this meant that at one point or another, he replaced just about everyone’s art.  At one point, he even looped right round and replaced his own……

But as the King was the number #1 cover artist of the 60’s and Kane was the number #1 replacer of that art in the 70’s, this meant that Sugar Lips replaced more of the King’s art than anyone else’s (that’s a supposition, btw, feel free to prove me wrong).  

 

Then in 1976, Kirby returned to Marvel and got used, once again, for a surprising amount of cover art, some of which was for reprint titles.   However, despite a number of examples of Kane covers replacing Kirby’s, as far as I know, the only example of a Kirby cover replacing Kane is MTA 29.  

I imagine someone will now prove me wrong. My money is on @Garystar