{"id":569,"date":"2010-06-08T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T16:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2010-06-08T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T16:08:03","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-10-x-o-manowar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-10-x-o-manowar\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #10 X-O Manowar"},"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

Jim Shooter <\/strong>launched the Valiant Universe with three golden-age heroes (Turok, Magnus & Solar) as well as his own creations. One of these new creations was X-O Manowar<\/strong>, a centuries-old Visigoth named Aric Dacia<\/strong>, armed with a living armor that was taken from an alien spacecraft. Eventually, he gifts the armor to his friend Randy and it takes over her. Swiping the cover of issue #5 seemed like a great way to mark this event.<\/p>\n

And, when something sells well (as X-O Manowar <\/em>initially did), it’s only natural that a parody of it will come along. With that in mind, Spoof Comics <\/strong>published OX, Cow o’ War <\/em>and used this issue as the basis of their cover swipe.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"
\nX-O Manowar #5
\nJune 1992
\nBarry Windsor-Smith\n<\/td>\n		\"\"
\nX-O Manowar #21
\nOctober 1993
\nJim Calafiore\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"
\nOx, Cow of War
\nJuly 1992
\nMike Halbleib\n<\/td>\n		\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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On Ebay<\/u>: X-O Manowar<\/a> | Barry Windsor-Smith<\/a> | Jim Calafiore<\/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. Jim Shooter launched the Valiant Universe with three golden-age heroes (Turok, Magnus […]<\/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-569","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\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}