13 COVERS for BASTILLE DAY — featuring ADAMS, GRELL, APARO and MORE…
It’s Bastille Day, and as we have done in the past, we’ve got 13 COVERS for you, featuring Bronze Age French comics that adapted American stories.
I particularly like picking out covers that differ significantly from the source material just to show off the differences. (I did this recently when I returned from Australia too.)
Anyway, there’s a lot of great stuff here: Many are direct rips of the original art but most have been altered. (I’ve noted the original artists in the captions.)
Otherwise, the characters are pretty much on model — except the lead cover, which features a Robin so miscolored I wish this outfit would show up in an issue of Batman/Superman: World’s Finest. It would make a great action figure too!
Alors, découvrez ces 13 couvertures!
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I’m pretty sure this is based on style-guide art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Dick Giordano.
Similar to the one above, but I think this is all Giordano from a different source.
Neal Adams, Batman #251 a l’orange!
Adams, Detective Comics #408
Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson’s famed 1966 pinup
Mike Grell and Bob Wiacek, Batman #287 splash page
Giordano, Batman #300
Adams, Detective Comics #439
Nick Cardy, Batman #256
Jim Aparo, Batman #448
Ernie Chan, Batman #270
Irv Novick and Frank McLaughlin, Batman #328 splash page
Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin, Detective Comics #474
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MORE
— 13 FRENCH MARVEL COVERS to Celebrate BASTILLE DAY. Click here.
— 13 TIMES Australian Publishers Did BATMAN COVERS Better Than DC COMICS. Click here.
