A clever spin on an all-time classic cover…
Certain covers get homaged over and over again, and for good reason — books like Action Comics #1, Amazing Fantasy #15 and The Avengers #4 are part of the foundation of comics.
One of those books is 1940’s Detective Comics #38, featuring the first appearance of Robin:
Bob Kane pencils, Jerry Robinson inks
Well, there’s another homage coming your way in September and it’s an especially groovy one — a variant by Giuseppe Camuncoli for the special Nightwing Uncovered #1, which, fittingly, is a collection of favorite Nightwing covers. (The special is timed to the end of the much-ballyhooed Tom Taylor/Bruno Redondo run on the series.)
Dig this:
I’m impressed bu Camuncoli’s ability to mesh modern Dick with the art style of the original Kane-Robinson Boy Wonder.
Here are the other covers for the ish, along with the solicitation copy:
Main cover by Dexter Soy
Variant by Salvador Larroca
Variant by Vasco Georgiev
NIGHTWING UNCOVERED
Written by IVAN COHEN
Art by DEXTER SOY, JIM LEE, DAN MORA, JAMAL CAMPBELL, TRAVIS MOORE, and others
Cover by DEXTER SOY
Variant covers by SALVADOR LARROCA and GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
1:25 cover by VASCO GEORGIEV
1:50 variant cover by DEXTER SOY
Lenticular variant cover by BRUNO REDONDO
$5.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $6.99 US (card stock) | Lenticular variant $9.99 US
Dick Grayson is front and center in a stunning collection of some of the most compelling cover art to grace his solo title over the years!
ON SALE 9/11/24
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The second Soy cover and the Redondo cover have not been revealed yet.
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MORE
— Flight of Passage: From ROBIN to NIGHTWING — 40 YEARS LATER. Click here.
— NIGHTWING’s First Appearance to Get FACSIMILE EDITION Treatment. Click here.
June 20, 2024
What DC really needs to do is publish one or two omnibuses a year that have every cover and variant (open to order as well as rare ratioed) they published the previous year (which would be a few thousand different covers)–they are leaving money on the table by not doing this.