Favorite Cliche Comic Cover

[thunderbolt]

Man, where is samurainoir? this is a thread he was born for.

[thunderbolt]

Actually it's not....I think there were other similar covers before X-Men #136...I think I have a Wizard magazine 2-page spread where they showed them all...I'll have to dig it out....

The Xmen and crisis ones are much closer than any of the others mentioned. same exact positioning of the female body and same expression on the male's face.

[kingdom warrior]

To be honest, I never would have thought of that cover until you mentioned it and I wouldn't have even known about it except I was on a Ditko research kick a few months ago.

I totally forgot it was Ditko I just remember the cover and how it influenced all those other covers over the years.......Ditko ever the innovator

[kingdom warrior]

John Byrne's redone the FF #1 cover morethan a few times.

and Action #1 ....another cover that has been done to death.

[thunderbolt]

Byrne's swiped this one from himself, too

[thunderbolt]

[UnderdogDJLSW]

How about the character's word balloon that always proclaims doom? I always remembered these from my childhood

[kryptosmaster]

hmmm cant get it to shoiw

[madmarva]

Kirby's cover to Amazing Fantasy 15 always reminded me of Kane's Detective 27. The Batman one is a long shot, while Spidey is a medium shot. It was probably more of a subconscious thing than an homage, but it's a bit ironic because that cover is the part of source of Kirby's claim that he created Spidey.

[Brazoo]

This is a great thread!

How 'bout the one where a hero is holding a dead hero while other heroes look on....This one's been done to death (pun intended)....You know, ala Crisis #7 or X-Men #136:

This is the first type of cover I thougth of too! Personally I always think of Michelangelo's "The Pieta" as the source for this composition:

[babycyclops]

The drapery on that sculpture is sublime.
Those covers also remind me of this

[TrueDave]

Avengers #4 cover HAS to be the most "Tribute" cover ever. So MANY obvious redos . . . . . .

[boynightwing]

[david_b]

This is probably the most over-done cliche. Here's a few more....:

[Earth 2 Chris]

Man, DC went cheap on covers in the mid-70s didn't they? When Neal Adams and Nick Cardy had both left, they gave the covers to Ernie (Chan) Chua, and he did half-arse work there. He's a fantastic artist, but he phoned much of his DC work at the time in, and almost all the overs had absolutely no backgrounds!

There's a subset of cover cliche's during the late 50s/early 60s Batman comics. Batman and Robin encounter some strange creature, and Robin is seen in the lower right hand corner with his arms up in front of his face. And they are usually grossly out of proportion.

Chris