{"id":4932,"date":"2014-02-25T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2014-02-25T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:15:30","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-146-green-lantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-146-green-lantern\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #146 Green Lantern"},"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

Taking a page from Marvel and DC’s marketing book, Skullkickers <\/em>decided to relaunch their book with a new issue #1 and an enticing title change. Issue #23 was renamed DARK SKULLKICKERS DARK and the numbering changed to #1. I think the plan worked, and sales increased – even though it was a noticeable swipe at the big two publishers.<\/p>\n

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\"Green
\nGreen Lantern #85
\nSeptember 1971
\nNeal Adams\n<\/td>\n		\"Dark
\nDark Skullkickers Dark #1
\nJuly 2013
\n \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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On Ebay<\/u>: Green Lantern<\/a> | Skullkickers<\/a>
\nOn AtomicAvenue<\/span>: Green Lantern<\/a> | Skullkickers<\/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. Taking a page from Marvel and DC’s marketing book, Skullkickers decided to […]<\/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-4932","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\/4932","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=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}