{"id":947,"date":"2010-07-27T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2010-07-27T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:10:05","slug":"comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-17-x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/comic-book-cover-swipes-exposed-17-x-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Cover Swipes Exposed #17 X-Men"},"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 <em>X-Men Collectors&#8217; Preview <\/em>provided some insight into the then-current <strong>X-Men <\/strong>line of books. It features interviews with creators and behind the scenes info. It also includes a sketchbook that showed the thought-processes that went into creating the costumes from the <strong>Age of Apocalypse<\/strong>. The back cover to the book featured the Age of Apocalypse characters in a pose that swiped the front cover.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/x-men-collectors-preview-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nX-Men Collectors&#8217; Preview<br \/>\nFebruary 1995\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/x-men-collectors-preview-1-aoa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nX-Men Collectors&#8217; Preview<br \/>\nFebruary 1995\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=%22x-men%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">X-Men<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22age+of+apocalypse%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Age of Apocalypse<\/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 X-Men Collectors&#8217; Preview provided some insight into the then-current X-Men line [&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-947","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\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}