{"id":4342,"date":"2012-07-17T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2012-07-17T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:00:53","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-120-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-120-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #120 Batman"},"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>The 400th issue of <em>Batman <\/em>was illustrated by a host of great artists including Art Adams, Brian Bolland, John Byrne, Mike Grell, George Perez, Steve Rude and Bernie Wrightson. The cover featured a <strong>Bill Sienkiewicz <\/strong>piece and there was even a special introduction by <strong>Stephen King<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/batman-400.jpg\" alt=\"Batman #400\" title=\"Batman #400\"\/><br \/>\nBatman #400<br \/>\nOctober 1986<br \/>\nBill Sienkiewicz\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/happy-birthday-gnatrat-1.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday Gnatrat #1\" title=\"Happy Birthday Gnatrat #1\" \/><br \/>\nHappy Birthday Gnatrat #1<br \/>\n1986<br \/>\nMark Martin\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=%22batman%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Batman<\/a>  | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22gnatrat%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Gnatrat<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On AtomicAvenue<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=batman&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Batman<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=gnatrat&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Gnatrat<\/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. The 400th issue of Batman was illustrated by a host of great [&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-4342","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\/4342","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=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}