{"id":329,"date":"2012-04-10T07:11:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T07:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/coverstats\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T22:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:51:58","slug":"coverstats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/2012\/04\/10\/coverstats\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to 1960s Marvel covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at his blog<\/a>, Ferran Delgado’s been posting some comparisons between the cover stats that Marvel Comics sent to the Spanish publisher and the covers Marvel published. Ferran’s generously allowed me to share some of his content here. Thank you, Ferran! – http:\/\/ferrandelgado.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Note the grey-toning of the buildings in the background on the right, additional figures, the shadows of the monster….<\/p>\n

\"1961<\/a>

1961 – Fantastic Four 1 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Word balloons, character name bursts, issue number, picture frames.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1962<\/a>

1962 – Fantastic Four 2 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Black Panther’s trunks, mask and cape.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1966<\/a>

1966 – Fantastic Four 52 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Crackle on the stat, buildings on the cover…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1967<\/a>

1967 – Fantastic Four 65 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Crackle on the stat, empty space on the cover<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1967<\/a>

1967 – Fantastic Four 69 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Shadows, speed lines and crackle on the stat, space on the cover<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Fantastic Four 71 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Marvel’s Greatest Comics cover in 1975 returned some of the speed lines and crackle<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Another Fantastic Four 71 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Crackle blackened<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Fantastic Four 78 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

1975’s Marvel’s Greatest Comics cover removed the added black, but did not restore the crackle. Also adjustments to Ben Grimm’s face.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Another Fantastic Four 78 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Architectural element & shadows on the stat, outline around story title; not on the cover.\u00a0<\/span>Note the shape of the shadow to the left of the Thing’s foot<\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Fantastic Four 79 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

1976’s Marvel’s Greatest Comics edition returned the architectural element around the background figures, and the shape of the shadow by the Thing’s foot!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Another Fantastic Four 79 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Added black background, removed black on Tomazooma’s torso<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Fantastic Four 80 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

1976’s Marvel’s Greatest Comics cover returned the shadow on Tomazooma’s torso<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1968<\/a>

1968 – Another Fantastic Four 80 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Story title different<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1969<\/a>

1969 – Fantastic Four 93 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

Buildings added, word balloons removed, web increased to full cover<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1963<\/a>

1963 – Strange Tales Annual 2 cover comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

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Over at his blog, Ferran Delgado’s been posting some comparisons between the cover stats that Marvel Comics sent to the Spanish publisher and the covers Marvel published. Ferran’s generously allowed me to share some of his content here. Thank you, Ferran! – http:\/\/ferrandelgado.blogspot.com\/ Note the grey-toning of the buildings in the background on the right, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}