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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 30, 2012 15:30:35 GMT -5
These are low grade. One (#53) was in my sale stock priced "Free" because I just wanted someone to take it. Marvel's Greatest Comics #47  Marvel's Greatest Comics #53  Defiant1 |
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Post by gowaltrip on Dec 31, 2012 15:44:01 GMT -5
Like anyone, I'm not a big fan of reprint books, but these books with covers in recolored or recropped and sometimes redone, to me come from an era when the reprints were actually cool in their own right. Especially with different logos for titles. It just gives it a nice new dynamic to what's been seen before. They were pretty much "variants" from the way back days.
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Post by Defiant1 on Dec 31, 2012 15:46:44 GMT -5
Like anyone, I'm not a big fan of reprint books, but these books with covers in recolored or recropped and sometimes redone, to me come from an era when the reprints were actually cool in their own right. Especially with different logos for titles. It just gives it a nice new dynamic to what's been seen before. They were pretty much "variants" from the way back days.
They're called picture box covers on the *censored* board. I think they are smart. It pulls your eye into the center of the cover and makes you focus on the action which they DO deliver.
Nevermind. I was thinking those were the ones with a square around the image. they aren't. they still make you focus on the pictures to draw you into what it's selling. Defiant1 |
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Post by gowaltrip on Jan 2, 2013 13:02:04 GMT -5
Like anyone, I'm not a big fan of reprint books, but these books with covers in recolored or recropped and sometimes redone, to me come from an era when the reprints were actually cool in their own right. Especially with different logos for titles. It just gives it a nice new dynamic to what's been seen before. They were pretty much "variants" from the way back days.
They're called picture box covers on the *censored* board. I think they are smart. It pulls your eye into the center of the cover and makes you focus on the action which they DO deliver.
Nevermind. I was thinking those were the ones with a square around the image. they aren't. they still make you focus on the pictures to draw you into what it's selling. Defiant1 I know what books you mean. They do represent a certain time-frame very well and have a collectivity built in about them. That being said, as much as I appreciate them, I'm glad that era was short lived. That's one thing that makes it a good thing and not a bad thing. |
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 2, 2013 14:49:08 GMT -5
John Romita Sr. was in charge of covers back then. I think that's what made them so good. Stan Lee sat him down when he started working for Marvel and explained to him why Kirby's art was so compelling and pulled the reader into the stories. The art is lost today.
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