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Marin Balabanov
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| Posted: 16 October 2019 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | 1
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Celebrating the classic Dark Phoenix epic with alternate covers: https://www.cbr.com/marvel-x-men-dark-phoenix-40-anniversary -variants/
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Koroush Ghazi
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| Posted: 16 October 2019 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | 2
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Just when you thought the movie wasn't enough to insult the Dark Phoenix legacy, out come these covers.
I like the Excalibur cover because it looks the least like a promo for a video game, and the closest to an actual comicbook cover. The New Mutants one looks like Wolverine is fighting in zero gravity based on the floating debris. All of them are too garishly coloured in my opinion.
My preferred covers are of course JB's originals, but I discovered the Dark Phoenix saga in 1984 via the TPB, so this Bill Sienkiewicz cover evokes a lot of memories:
My copy of that TPB says Third Printing, so it must have been popular. Funny thing is I sold all of my comics in 1987 because my parents convinced me I was getting "too old" for them (I was 16), but I couldn't sell my Dark Phoneix TPB because I'd laminated the cover... so it's one of only a few original comicbooks I have from my youth :)
Anyway, congrats again to JB, Terry and Chris for creating such an enduring story.
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Eric Smearman
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| Posted: 16 October 2019 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | 3
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I have the trade with the Sienkievicz cover. Picked it up just a few years ago for about 15 bucks.
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Doug Centers
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My tpb has issue #136 as it's cover. The back of that trade has several cover versions of the Saga.I like the 1999 tpb cover by JB.
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Neil Lindholm
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My first X-Men comic was #129 so I got into comics at the perfect time. With X-Men, Miller on Daredevil, Buscema doing Conan and so many others, I think I got lucky.
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David Schmidt
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| Posted: 17 October 2019 at 12:48am | IP Logged | 6
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Dark Phoenix Saga was the beginning of my love story with american comic books. I didn't realize at the time it was a little revolution (for good and for bad). I was impressed by the pace of the story and by it's dramatic conclusion. And of course by the art which made me follow everything that John Byrne guy was doing when it was possible.
That covers thing make me think of this one that always move me even if it's Jean Frisano redrawing Uncanny X-Men 137 cover and not Mr Byrne's original art.
Mr Frisano drew almost every covers of Lug Marvel magazines until his death and I loved his strange "painting style" rendition of classic covers.
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Vinny Valenti
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I have that Sienkiewicz TPB! I believe mine is the second printing, bought around 1988. I love how it's still practically like new after all these years, without any attempt to preserve it.
Interesting to note how there was no attempt to give a name to the story at that point, the cover was considered to be enough.
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John Byrne
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Interesting to note how there was no attempt to give a name to the story...•• Or credit the authors.
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John Byrne
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•• Hm. I don't remember that scene taking place on a bright, sunny day.....
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Koroush Ghazi
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| Posted: 17 October 2019 at 7:42am | IP Logged | 10
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Or Spider-Man being blue...
Vinny Valenti wrote:
| I love how it's still practically like new after all these years, without any attempt to preserve it. |
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That's it, rub it in! For some reason I was a paranoid kid, so any paperback of value to me would quickly be laminated shortly after purchase.
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John Byrne
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When I was in my middle teens, my father brought home a roll of transparent, self adhesive wallpaper, which we then started using to "laminate" the dust jackets on our hardcover books. My set of hardcover James Bond novels got the treatment, for instance, as a result of which they are in pristine condition more than fifty years late.
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David Schmidt
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Hm. I don't remember that scene taking place on a bright, sunny day.....
It didn't. But I guess the cover is just... white.
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