Homage cover (comics)

Homage Cover is comics term that refers to the intentional copying of a cover from an earlier comic book or graphic novel that references the Original Artist. Homages often occur when a comic is rebooted to demonstrate continuity with earlier volumes. A common target of homage is the first edition of a particular comic (see list below).

List of homage targets

Covers that have been frequently homaged include:
* Amazing Fantasy #15 - first appearance of Spider-Man; Spidey swings across the page carrying a crook
* Fantastic Four #1 - where a giant monster emerges from the below a street.
* Action Comics #1 - where Superman holds a car over his head.
* Superman #1 - where Superman is posed in the middle of a leap high above a city skyline.
* Superman #14 - where Superman stands with a bald eagle on his left arm.
* Justice League #1 - members of the team standing in ranks looking upwards to the 'camera'.
* Giant-Size X-Men #1 - where the new team of X-Men seemingly burst out from the cover while the older X-men team looks on horrified from above.
* The Incredible Hulk #1 - Bruce Banner is over shadowed by the Hulk.
* Superman #199 - Superman races the Flash in a foot race (cf. Superman #463).
* (cf. Dragon Fall #4)
* Legion of Superheroes #1
* Avengers #4 - Best known for the heroes charging towards the reader, particularly Captain America holding his shield on one arm, with his right arm pointing backward.
* What If? #1 - Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four burst through a page of black-and-white comic book art.
* Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 - A weeping Superman holds the dead Supergirl in his arms. This cover itself was an homage to Michaelangelo's Pietà. [http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer//?mode=project&action=view&project=Guest%20Lecturer&chapter=17]

ee also

* Comics vocabulary
* Marvel Zombies Covers - each cover in this series is a homage.

External links

* Examples of homages in threads of the Image comics forum
** [http://www.imagecomics.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=5327&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=3f9a266ec9400ee3cb0f8eb088abf87d great new cover swipe (Two more added)]
** [http://www.imagecomics.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=138&highlight=swipe&sid=3f9a266ec9400ee3cb0f8eb088abf87d The Great Cover Swipe Game]