{"id":3375,"date":"2011-12-06T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2011-12-06T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:47:46","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-88-squadron-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-88-squadron-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #88 Squadron Supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"

After looking at hundreds of comic book covers, it becomes quickly apparent that not every cover is 100% original. Whether done intentionally or even underhandedly, there’s something about uncovering these “swipes” that adds a new element of fun to reading and collecting comics.<\/font><\/p>\n

Mark Gruenwald <\/strong>wrote hundreds of comics but the story that he was most proud of was Squadron Supreme<\/em>. After he died, Marvel Comics published a trade paperback collecting the twelve-issue limited series and Gruenwald’s ashes were mixed into the ink! A new cover was provided for the collection by Alex Ross <\/strong>and was later paid homage to by Gary Frank<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Squadron
\nSquadron Supreme TPB
\nAugust 1997
\nAlex Ross\n<\/td>\n		\"Squadron
\nSquadron Supreme vol. II #1
\nMay 2006
\nGary Frank\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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On Ebay<\/u>: Squadron Supreme<\/a>
\nOn AtomicAvenue<\/span>: Squadron Supreme<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After looking at hundreds of comic book covers, it becomes quickly apparent that not every cover is 100% original. Whether done intentionally or even underhandedly, there’s something about uncovering these “swipes” that adds a new element of fun to reading and collecting comics. Mark Gruenwald wrote hundreds of comics but the story that he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swiped-comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}