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Re: The other WTF covers.
Leap Year Lord #915540 11/07/16 09:49 AM
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Clearly a failed attempt to get into the Woozy Winks thread with those trunks.

I think the jeep is supposed to be staying aloft because it's supposed to be attached to the balloon. The giant yellow disc is either another balloon for redundancy or a suddenly appearing astronomical body whose gravity makes things go as wild as an early Justice League cover!

Or...

The guy in the car is a magician - see cape. So he can levitate jeeps just like any stage magician can do, as is well known. The giant yellow disc is a portal to another dimension, and they've sent their robotic construct Mr Trunks through to take care of any doo gooders, prior to an invasion.

Simply really. You're getting two answers only because golden age editors used to reuse covers for different stories, and this one was used twice.

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Re: The other WTF covers.
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This is just the wrong product placement.

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Re: The other WTF covers.
Leap Year Lord #915655 11/08/16 11:43 AM
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Please see page 4.



Please also note:

Originally Posted by Thriftshop Debutante
Originally Posted by Leap Year Lord
The Golden Age thread is chockablock with poor art, bizarre anatomy, unintentionally (?) suggestive elements, general nuttiness. WTF, right?

Then there are the other ones. Every so often I run across a cover that seems like it should "make sense" but I can't quite work out what the artist was trying to convey. It probably comes down to one of three things:

  • cultural references no longer commonly understood
  • poorly realized situation/gag
  • 99 out of 100 people understand it just fine (I am the 1%!)


I'll post 'em, you guys help me out. Deal?



Feel free to post the "it should 'make sense' but I don't get it" covers you run across to crowdsource an answer (maybe).

"WTF were they thinking" and "Why did they publish that" fall outside the purview of this thread -- but the answer to both for ANY COVER is they thought someone would buy it. (And they were probably right.)
Re: The other WTF covers.
Leap Year Lord #915745 11/09/16 07:17 AM
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OK, this just weirds me out. Is this for future Fascists or Evil Clowns? Either way, jeez!

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And then there is the creepy uncle when you are taking a bubble bath...

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And why does Superman have this machine anyways?

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Re: The other WTF covers.
Leap Year Lord #915766 11/09/16 12:30 PM
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Jfposey -- please see the thread setup above/at the beginning of the thread.
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