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Comic Books
Alex Ross’ ‘Secret Wars’ #8 cover features Super, subtle cameo
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Benjamin Kaye | July 18, 2015 @ 9:10 AM |
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Last week, we pointed out that Wes Craig’s variant cover for
The Flash #44, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Green Lantern,
featured one Galactus-sized cameo. Marvel has now returned the favor with an even subtler guest appearance on one of its own front splahses.
Alex Ross’ cover for
Secret Wars #8 is a gorgeous work of art, with Mr. Fantastic and Dr. Doom clashing in the middle as reality rips and explodes around them. You can see the origin of the Hulk; the death of Elektra; the birth of Franklin Richards; and even a ride with the Rawhide Kid, Kid Colt, and, oh, let’s say the Dakota Kid. Down in the bottom left corner of the cover is, of course, Spider-Man. But this isn’t a depiction of just any old “Spider-Man on a radio tower” scene, and he’s actually not alone in that image.
If you look just below his right leg, there’s the tiniest splash of red there. See?
Why, whatever could that be? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Superman! Well, it’s Superman’s boot, at the very least.
Yes, that particular pose that Ross has Spider-Man in is an homage to the 1976 crossover
Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century, with a cover designed by Carmine Infantino and Ross Andru, with dikk Giordano on inks.
Secret Wars #8 should hit in November, and you can check out how Ross bringing Superman back to the Marvel Universe fits into his whole puzzle below:
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Covers
‘The Flash’ Green Lantern variant has an unexpected, giant-size cameo
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Kevin Melrose | June 12, 2015 @ 2:46 PM |
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Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, knows a good planetary buffet when he sees one, and he’s apparently willing to cross universes — and
publishers — to get to it.
Among
the covers debuted this afternoon by DC Comics to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Green Lantern is Wes Craig’s fun variant for
The Flash #44, which depicts Barry Allen and John Stewart racing through space, just ahead of a battalion of Parademons. (Is that what you call them, a
battalion? A sleuth? A murder?) Scattered throughout the background are tiny cameos by the likes of Ambush Bug, Superman, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Starman Mister Miracle, Orion and even Mister Mxyzptlk. But that’s not all …
If you squint and look in the lower right-hand corner, you’ll spy Galactus and his herald Silver Surfer, clearly scouting that tasty, tasty Multiverse platter. And, hey, who can blame them? They don’t call it “the hunger that does not cease” for nothing.
DC’s Green Lantern variants arrives in September, followed immediately by Earth’s — or, rather,
Earths‘ — delicious doom.
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