quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Putting what I hope is a new, wacky spin on the original cover/reprint cover idea... (wish I hadn't sold off my DC DIGESTS on eBay...)
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From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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I'll vote with Blacula for the Digest,Just because I remember how happy I was when I picked this book up,and saw those 16 pages of new costumes by my favorite artist George Perez!
I was to young to pick up the original by Neal Adams when it came out.
I do own both of them now,but the first time I read the story it was in the digest.
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From: Kentucky | Registered: Oct 2005
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1. It was one of the first Adventure-era Legion comics I ever read. A friend actually gave it to me, and I still have it.
2. I remember re-drawing the cover, going over every detail of the broken glass. Doing so gave me a new respect for the detail in Adams' work and in comics art in general.
3. Even now, decades later, the cover is still fresh, dynamic, and powerful. Even the facial expressions and body language of the Legionnaires seem more naturalistic than on the digest cover. This naturalism only heightens the horror of what they are witnessing.
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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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I prefer the Digest to the original issue but the cover to 372 is by far the more dynamic of the two. So that one.
From: Dorset, England | Registered: Oct 2008
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I'll go with the digest, because that's the one I remember from my youth. Also, because it's a little wacky seeing the older story solicited on the cover with the then current costumes.
If only an issue fell through time from the Grell/Cockrum period into the Adventure realm: "Cos, what in the blue blazes are you wearing?!?!?!"
From: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: Sep 2004
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BTW, I didn't vote on the last one, which was probably the hardest one yet! Still, I probably would have chosen WF.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Eryk Davis Ester
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Adv. 372! My second favorite fake-Superboy-gets-killed cover of the Adventure era!
(first is Nardo killing fake-Superboy on the cover of the first Super-Stalag issue!)
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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Yeeesh... don't think there's any way for the DIGEST to pull this one out with only 3 votes to 15 for ADV 372 so far.
Actually, looking back, this wasn't really quite fair... the cover to the DIGEST actually portrays the ALL-NEW story of the revenge of Tarik the Mute's Android inside, although it does indeed contain a reprint of ADV 372.
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