{"id":4150,"date":"2012-06-05T08:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:17:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:17:53","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #114"},"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>Derivative heroes were big bucks in the 1990s. Iron Man had War Machine. Thor had Thunderstrike. Spider-Man had Scarlet Spider. Captain America had U.S. Agent. Superman even had four replacements! Ghost Rider got <strong>Vengeance <\/strong>and the hero took over the book with issue #46 &#8211; its cover harkened back to issue #1.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/ghost-rider-v3-01.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Rider vol. III #1\" title=\"Ghost Rider vol. III #1\"\/><br \/>\nGhost Rider vol. III #1<br \/>\nMay 1990<br \/>\nJavier Saltares\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/ghost-rider-v3-46.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Rider vol. III #46\" title=\"Ghost Rider vol. III #46\"\/><br \/>\nGhost Rider vol. III #46<br \/>\nFebruary 1994<br \/>\nRon Garney\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=%22ghost+rider%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Ghost Rider<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On AtomicAvenue<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=ghost+rider&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Rider<\/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. Derivative heroes were big bucks in the 1990s. Iron Man had War [&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-4150","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\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}