I'm beginning to suspect X-Men #141 has the most recreations of any comic cover...
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.
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. Other evidence supports 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.
Cover of The Uncanny X-Men 141 (Jan, 1981). Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin.
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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...
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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