{"id":3499,"date":"2012-01-10T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2012-01-10T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:19:12","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">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&#8217;s something about uncovering these &#8220;swipes&#8221; that adds a new element of fun to reading and collecting comics.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><em>Avengers <\/em>#70 featured the first major appearance of the <strong>Squadron Sinister <\/strong>(and their first cover appearance). It was a team of villains meant to be analogous to DC&#8217;s Justice League. Hyperion = Superman. Whizzer = the Flash. Doctor Spectrum = Green Lantern. Nighthawk = Batman. An alternate universe version of the team, the Squadron Supreme, has since been more prominently featured in the Marvel Universe and included even more heroes that were derived from DC characters.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/avengers-070.jpg\" alt=\"Avengers #70\" title=\"Avengers #70\" \/><br \/>\nAvengers #70<br \/>\nNovember 1969<br \/>\nSal Buscema\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/a-next-10.jpg\" alt=\"A-Next #10\" title=\"A-Next #10\" \/><br \/>\nA-Next #10<br \/>\nJuly 1999<br \/>\nRon Frenz\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22avengers%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Avengers<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22a-next%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">A-Next<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On AtomicAvenue<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=avengers&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=a-next&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">A-Next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s something about uncovering these &#8220;swipes&#8221; that adds a new element of fun to reading and collecting comics. Avengers #70 featured the first major appearance of the Squadron Sinister (and [&hellip;]<\/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-3499","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\/3499","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=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}