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Steve
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s  Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:52 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Night Owl
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:02 pm |
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The Vertigo Enigma series covers each contained a metallic ink, but it was tastefully done, fit the art and made for a beautiful part of my collection.
The Reign of the Supermen comics with the die-cut covers worked for me also.
I like the glow-in-the-dark ink on the Sandman special about Orpheus.
Other than those, I can't think of any of the other gimmicks that worked for me.
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Bully
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:02 pm |
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Gimmick covers were by and large horrible ideas.
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Steve
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:07 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Funny how they're so rarely used now. Multiple covers, sure, everywhere. But almost nothing on 'em. Must be because Marvel isn't owed by a trading-card company anymore.
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Bubbles
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:17 pm |
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I don't think #1 on that list really counts, since it was a spoof and supposed to be ridiculous.
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Junkie Luv
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:34 pm |
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As dull and repetitive as they are
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I like the colorforms cover.
And that Batman/Deadman cover has nice art.
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Steve
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:35 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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I'd like to see what it looks like when glowing.
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Professor Plum
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:40 pm |
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Paroled evil genius
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I'm ashamed to admit I own about half of these: the Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man ones. Oh, well.
That Spidey #400 cover did not work out at all. You had to strain just to read the title on the cover.
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TS Garp
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:54 pm |
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I liked the Spectre #! glow in the dark cover.
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Steve
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:14 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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There was a Ghost Rider glow in the dark cover that was pretty cool. Javier Saltares or Tex, maybe.
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TS Garp
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:19 pm |
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Steve wrote: There was a Ghost Rider glow in the dark cover that was pretty cool. Javier Saltares or Tex, maybe. Ghost Rider #15. Cover art was Texeira, too bad the comic was written by Mackie.
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MILFbait
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:48 pm |
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TS Garp wrote: Steve wrote: There was a Ghost Rider glow in the dark cover that was pretty cool. Javier Saltares or Tex, maybe. Ghost Rider #15. Cover art was Texeira, too bad the comic was written by Mackie. I actually liked that version of Ghost Rider, I bailed when Blevins came onboard though... 
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Junkie Luv
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:50 pm |
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As dull and repetitive as they are
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Professor Plum wrote: I'm ashamed to admit I own about half of these: the Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man ones. Oh, well.
That Spidey #400 cover did not work out at all. You had to strain just to read the title on the cover. Could you take a photo of the Batman comic glowing in the dark?
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:20 am |
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Biker Librarian
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Junkie Luv wrote: Professor Plum wrote: I'm ashamed to admit I own about half of these: the Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man ones. Oh, well.
That Spidey #400 cover did not work out at all. You had to strain just to read the title on the cover. Could you take a photo of the Batman comic glowing in the dark? A glowing variant cover? Wouldn't that be more appropriate for Captain Atom?
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Dave Toxik
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:02 am |
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Solar # 10 had a black over with embossed logo. Worked for me, since that issue concluded his origin story and featured the creation of a black hole.
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Steve
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:28 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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The final straw, I think, was a Defiant #0 issue that was comprised of trading cards. You had to collect them all and put them in 9 card pages to read the story.
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Bubbles
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:08 pm |
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Steve wrote: The final straw, I think, was a Defiant #0 issue that was comprised of trading cards. You had to collect them all and put them in 9 card pages to read the story. That brilliant.
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Night Owl
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:03 pm |
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I liked some of the Defiant comics. Plasm, Dark Dominion and the Goods Guys rocked.
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MILFbait
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:08 pm |
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The Kilted Wonder.
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I have the Spider-man Hologram covers(surprised they didn't clump the X-Men Hologram covers in there with them), Robin III and The Mighty Magnor #1. I'm surprised they didn't include the six random Spider-man titles that had the "Animation Cells" in them...
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Mike M
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:16 pm |
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I bought my share of gimmicky comics in the 90's but I only have three of the ones mentioned in the article. (both Spider-Man's and Robin III)
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Night Owl
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:17 pm |
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Was The Killing Joke the first gimmicky cover with the acid green special color on the cover?
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Bolgani Gogo
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Post subject: 12 Most Gimmicky Covers of the '90s Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:26 pm |
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To my recollection, I've never bought a comic book with a gimmick cover. This will probably change, as my collection of Fantastic Four grows.
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