Jmille99

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Marvel also did a bunch of special cover gimmick months. I remember the month where all the covers were just faces and another month where there was a notification on each cover that said "Beware It's Assistant Editor month" or something to that effect.

DC did the face thing too (these postcards were taken from some of those covers):

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onpoint

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I had so many of these.

Damn basement flooding.

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Couldn't find a better picture of this. But it was old Batman on a cutaway, and then you open to reveal new shiny Batman
 

Olorin

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Oct 27, 2017
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Don't remember if this was a gimmicky cover (I think it had a neon-glow to it) but it was very striking in comic shops

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Bengraven

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I remember my dad had a couple of these Marvels issues with Alex Ross art. The covers were clear plastic with the reversed title text, and the inside page was the fill image.

These looked so beautiful.

Being an hour from a comic shop, we only got whatever the local department store, gas stations, drug stores, or food stores got on their shelves. You could rely on Spider-Man and X-men books, sometimes DC and Image but for some reason every Malibu book.

But these were only at the LCBS and they sold out almost immediately. I believe the reprints were notmal covers. The only time I saw one of these were on the wall of the comic store with a mark up.

That cover is gross on so many different levels.

I can't help but want to ask about the fluid on Black Cat's chest. But I don't want to know but why did they think that would fly but but but

I loved the X-Men Prime cover back in the day.

This one pissed me off for two reasons:

I didn't dig the art (my fault)

My cover came from the comic delivery service with a weird warped bend on it.
 

Wingfan19

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Oct 25, 2017
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God damn, I had like 75% of the covers in this thread, lol. Loved the 4 Superman covers that were a cut out of the S symbol for the Steel, Superboy, Cyborg, and Eradicator Supermen.

But how has this one not been posted yet???

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Cth

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Halloween costume cover

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3D Pop Up cover

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Glow In the Dark

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Animated/Lenticular
 

deimosmasque

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To avoid continuing to sound like a broken record(because I have all the variants of X-Men 1 and the Sleepwalker comic)
I also have all the original trades of Age of Apocalypse, that look like this.

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