{"id":4784,"date":"2012-11-20T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2012-11-20T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T15:00:13","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-138-doom-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-138-doom-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #138 Doom Patrol"},"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>After the Vertigo series, Doom Patrol was relaunched in 2001 as a more straight-forward hero book. Well, straight-forward &#8230; for Doom Patrol, that is. The series was still very quirky and I was glad to see that it didn&#8217;t completely ignore what happened before. The last issue of this series swiped the first issue&#8217;s design.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/doom-patrol-v3-01.jpg\" alt=\"Doom Patrol vol. III #1\" title=\"Doom Patrol vol. III #1\" \/><br \/>\nDoom Patrol vol. III #1<br \/>\nDecember 2001<br \/>\nTan Eng Huat\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/doom-patrol-v3-22.jpg\" alt=\"Doom Patrol vol. III #22\" title=\"Doom Patrol vol. III #22\" \/><br \/>\nDoom Patrol vol. III #22<br \/>\nSeptember 2003<br \/>\nTan Eng Huat\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=%22doom+patrol%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Doom Patrol<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On AtomicAvenue<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=doom+patrol&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Doom Patrol<\/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. After the Vertigo series, Doom Patrol was relaunched in 2001 as a [&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-4784","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\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}