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[Jamie]

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call that a ripoff. Certainly they're in vaguely similar poses, but it's not really all that original a look to begin with -- certainly nowhere near a swipe as seen elsewhere on the board.

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[Red Oak Kid]

Twilight Girl 1 (http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=90438431333%201)

Tomb of Dracula 26 (http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=88722352224%2026)

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[Paradox]

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True, I wouldn't call it a ripoff either... but there are some strong similarities.

I'd be more inclined to say there's a vague, slight similarity. Strong it definitely isn't.

[Red Oak Kid]

Superman 243 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24554&zoom=4)

Jonah Hex 91 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=40066&zoom=4)

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[benday-dot]

The crying child from Frontline Combat #10 went on to achieve a measure of fame all it's own

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/834/400/834_4_10.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2056/400/2056_4_028.jpg

I can't recall any other instances of homage right now, but I think the kid shows up in other times and places in the four colour universe as well.

[Paradox]

Hee, that MTU is one of the most awful works in existence, too. Nice cover, though. :biggrin:

[Red Oak Kid]

I can't recall any other instances of homage right now, but I think the kid shows up in other times and places in the four colour universe as well.


Sgt. Fury 94 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24807&zoom=4)

I think there may be a Rawhide Kid cover by Kane with the same kid.

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[benday-dot]

Sgt. Fury 94 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24807&zoom=4)

I think there may be a Rawhide Kid cover by Kane with the same kid.

Thanks ROK. I had seen that cover recently, but couldn't recall it when I posted last night.

Poor kid... all those tearful incarnations, Talk about unhappy childhood!

[Red Oak Kid]

I thought Kane had done a western variation of the crying kid, but I can't find it and I looked at all the Marvel westerns from the 70s.

But it looks like we've discovered a new genre. This is a French kid.

GI Combat 134 (http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=35540317034%20134)

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[benday-dot]

DC really took a shine to the cover of Weird Western Tales #14. And with great justification; the case proving the adage that imitation is the highest form of flattery.

WWT #14 really is a great cover (Love that stylized sun. And if you have a chance, check out those first 25 issues of Weird Western Tales. It seemed almost obligatory to included a large sun, or moon, in the background to frame the action)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2039/400/2039_4_14.jpg

Here is another go around with this theme, just 14 issues later

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2039/400/2039_4_28.jpg

One further example that I know of turns up once again when Jonah Hex gets his own series

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2378/400/2378_4_09.jpg

[KidCommando]

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/daredevil/43-1.jpg
and many years later...
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/captain-america/341-13.jpg

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[MDG]

A blatant swipe from Ron Frenz!?!? The mind boggles!

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[Kirk G]

Rawhide Kid #14 (Atlas series) (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=13539&zoom=4)
Rawhide Kid #42 (Marvel series) (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=18696&zoom=4)


Rawhide Kid #124 (#42 recycled) ( http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=28172&zoom=4)

I think that Marvel Rawhide Kid #42 with the "Yerby Yahoos" is probably a play on the name Kirby too! What do you think? Anybody read it?

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[Roquefort Raider]

Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man (DC/Marvel Treasury, 1976) (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=30562&zoom=4)
Shadowhawk #5 (Image, V2, 2005) (http://www.imagecomics.com/gallery2/g2data_373ph4nt/albums/comics/2005-09/shadowhawk_05.jpg)

Gah!!!

I'd be very embarassed to be caught copying like that. There's no way this can be construed as a homage or whatever; it's laziness, pure and simple. Good catch, D!

[MDG]

Well, that's a famous enough cover that they must've expected people to recognize it.

[MDG]

Avengers #141 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=29262&zoom=4) and Avengers #6 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=68294&zoom=4) (V.3).

Also http://www.flickr.com/photos/batsuff/3311204525/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/batsuff/3311204525/

[benday-dot]

Well, that's a famous enough cover that they must've expected people to recognize it.

I agree. While at times it is hard to separate the the swipe (a rather clandestine maneuver) from the homage (intended to invoke a recollection) this one, because the original is so familiar and inescapable and the return so deliberate and precise, can only be construed as, for better or worse, an homage.

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[Roquefort Raider]

If you place one of the covers below the other the central heads seem to aline almost perfectly. What do you think?

That is true, but there aren't that many ways to design a "giant head with multiple small characters" type of covers... I would expect the central figure to usually have roughly the same size.

Is that green fellow a version of Brainiac?

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LOL. :)
Perhaps they're both swipes of some third cover. :)

Heh! Entirely possible.

Not quite this one, though :

[benday-dot]

I don't know but something (or should I say someone) strikes me as being rather familiar in each of these three covers...

Eerie #5 (http://www.comics.org/issue/214568/cover/4/?style=default)
Eerie #9 (http://www.comics.org/issue/214572/cover/4/?style=default)
Eerie #13 (http://www.comics.org/issue/214575/cover/4/?style=default)

... it's well, just downright eerie if you ask me. :biggrin:

And regardless of what Roger Hill says, the first torso of that woman (on the cover to Eerie #5) still looks like Wood drew it IMO.

Nice catch, you'd think by the third go around she would look a little more blase about the whole "eerie" business.

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Let me go out on a limb here... these amazing "menaced jungle girl in bondage foreground butt shot covers" must have sold very well...

Jungle Comics #33 (http://www.comics.org/issue/2383/cover/4/?style=default)
Jungle Comics #91 (http://www.comics.org/issue/6003/cover/4/?style=default)

... and while we're at it, let's turn the other cheek (oh yeah, that's original :wink: )...

Jungle Comics #52 (http://www.comics.org/issue/3547/cover/4/?style=default)
Jungle Comics #138 (http://www.comics.org/issue/8960/cover/4/?style=default)

... well, perhaps they're not all that original. But I'd probably buy them. :biggrin:


Ha! Yes, that was pretty much a stock pose. (I do have a copy of Jungle Comics #91.) In the Jungle title it was usually a damsel in distress, or bondage, while in its sister mag, Jumbo Comics, the gal found herself less in peril and more in a position of putting the run to bad guys and beasts. Of course this was because the wonderful Sheena was the star of the latter.

[M. Bushbug]

WW #62 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=10884&zoom=4) and One of you is the real Wonder Woman! Step forward or the other two will die.

Um... how are you going to do that unless you know which one is the real Wonder Woman. all three dying... yeah, I get that, but the other two?!?!??

[M. Bushbug]

Gah!!!

I'd be very embarassed to be caught copying like that. There's no way this can be construed as a homage or whatever; it's laziness, pure and simple. Good catch, D!No way?!?!?

I've been clicking on the second ones to see if I recognized the covers before I saw the original. First thing I thought when I saw that one was "homage".

[Roquefort Raider]

No way?!?!?

I've been clicking on the second ones to see if I recognized the covers before I saw the original. First thing I thought when I saw that one was "homage".

Okay, okay, I've eaten enough crow about this one! :wink:

I must have been very crabby when I wrote that.