Updated: 3/5/24:
This is one of those posts that will forever get updates! Let me know if you learn of any others in the comments section and I will add 'em!
Cover of The Uncanny X-Men 141 (Jan, 1981). Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin.
I think this one counts...
Dork Note: I have always wondered how John Byrne came up with the idea. Now I don't have any insight beyond speculation. However, seeing the splash page from Iron Fist #10 done by John Byrne in 1979 the root of his idea is apparent.
Rob's Room Note: I also found this What If? cover from 1978
Ferran Delgado said on-line, "Just a reminder that Byrne drew the iconic X-Men #141 cover from a layout by Hannigan (Byrne admitted it). Hannigan told me that editor Salicrup asked him to use as reference the Wings cover. Jim Salicrup was the editor of X-Men till he resigned when the end of #137 was changed. This is another evidence that "Days of future Past" was pitched as a Graphic Novel before #137. Many other evidences support this, including Byrne's comments in an interview conducted when the new ending of #137 was drawn or the silly ad laid out by Salicrup.
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16 comments:
Rob, nice!!!
You should do one of all the plays on superman holding super girl on the crisis on infinite earths cover
j-swin... funny you should mention that... it's been a post in the the making for a few months (but I haven't finished it)!
Ninja high school 176 is also an homage.
another one http://iliaskyriazis.blogspot.gr/2014/04/uncanny-x-men-141-recreation.html
AAARH...uhh... I mean... THANKS! ;)
What a great collection of covers that I had no idea existed. Talk about Iconic.
Nice collection. Most complete.
"I have always wondered how John Byrne came up with the idea. Now I don't have any insight beyond speculation. However, seeing the splash page from Iron Fist #10 done by John Byrne in 1979 the root of his idea is apparent."
Byrne has said that Ed Hannigan is the one who designed the cover for X-Men #141. Byrne was following Hannigan's layout.
John, that's cool - do you have a link to where Byrne said that? To own that cover is one of my Lottery dreams!
Sorry, just saw this. It was *somewhere* on his Forum, but I'm not sure what thread it would have been. If I find it, I'll be sure to link it here.
Here you go:
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43011&TPN=3
THANKS!
I cannot believe there are over 100 iterations of this cover! Every time I see a variation of this, I obsessively check to see if it's been included here (usually, it is...).
I wonder if anyone has ever suggested to the Guinness Book of World Records that this cover should be included in their publication!
That is an amazing selection. I knew this one was the most imitated but not by that many artists. Very cool. Loved the original cover so much.
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