Cover Contest Feb 17 - Feb 23: A Vision In Red

[LordMikel]

Perfect Idea for the Next Contest nx01a, I was wonder when and if we would celebrate the other Beautiful Half of WandaVision in a Contest and you did, Very Nice idea!

This cover Below that I choose is one of My Favorite Covers Ever Drawn By My Favorite Artist Ever in Comic Books George Perez and I could not choose a better cover for Vision to celebrate both him and his history of Love with Wanda and his connection with Wonder Man!

I saw this on the Scarlet Witch and I almost said how someone should steal it for this week's entry, so you'd get CJStriker's vote.

[CJStriker]

I saw this on the Scarlet Witch and I almost said how someone should steal it for this week's entry, so you'd get CJStriker's vote.

LOL kind of beat them too it, so I canceled that out!

But indeed I really like this cover that much and be hard for me to not want to make it my entry this week.

[K7P5V]

Tranzor Z for the Americans who watched it dubbed.

Indeed, LordMikel. Thanks for the memories (T^T)

[icctrombone]

I thought I would post a cover that had the vision on it twice.

[Tami]

That's Vision? He looks more like Martian Manhunter's elderly uncle.

[Kirby101]

Gold Age Vision. Not our current Marvel one. Some people like to be playful with the theme.

[CaptainEurope]

Does anybody have a scan of the character "Vision of Loveliness" that Paty Cockrum created as a joke for Foom or The Comic Reader or something? It was posted on the old Dave Cockrum board way, way back.

[Jack Dracula]

[Shalla Bal]

Gold Age Vision. Not our current Marvel one. Some people like to be playful with the theme.

LOL, good ol' Simon & Kirby. What's interesting to me is that this story, golden age Vision's debut, was reprinted in Marvel Super Heroes #13 in 1968, a few months before Avengers #57 hit the stands. MSH's associate editor, and the one who was choosing the reprints for that title, was Roy Thomas. It's almost like he a preparing readers for a new version.

And I've long felt that that particular S&K image may also have inspired this X-Men cover, which was published a month after Avengers #57 (we know Steranko was a Golden Age aficionado):


NOT AN ENTRY, obviously (but dibs on this if next week's theme is "Post your favorite Lorna Dane cover"

[Kirby101]

And obviously, Avengers #57.

[Shalla Bal]

And obviously, Avengers #57.

Yes, I figured everyone already knew that, which is why I wrote the "S&K image may also have inspired this X-Men cover." [in addition to the obvious cover]

Over the years I've come to think of Avengers #57 and X-Men #50 a pair of "Christmas color covers"--first month Av #57 is largely red, following month X-Men #50 is largely green.

[ed2962]

LOL, good ol' Simon & Kirby. What's interesting to me is that this story, golden age Vision's debut, was reprinted in Marvel Super Heroes #13 in 1968, a few months before Avengers #57 hit the stands. MSH's associate editor, and the one who was choosing the reprints for that title, was Roy Thomas. It's almost like he a preparing readers for a new version.

And I've long felt that that particular S&K image may also have inspired this X-Men cover, which was published a month after Avengers #57 (we know Steranko was a Golden Age aficionado):
NOT AN ENTRY, obviously (but dibs on this if next week's theme is "Post your favorite Lorna Dane cover"

The rumor I read somewhere was that Roy actually did want to bring back the golden age character, but Stan Lee talked him into revamping Vision into a new character

[Iron Maiden]

The rumor I read somewhere was that Roy actually did want to bring back the golden age character, but Stan Lee talked him into revamping Vision into a new character

He always did have a fondness for a Golden Age characters. He wrote that Avengers story where Miss America and The Whizzer (Bob and Madeline Frank) were Wanda and Pietro's parents. Then Claremont muddied the waters by changing it to Magneto and Magda (?). Recently the Magneto angle was nullified IIRC.

[Englehart Humperdinck]

He always did have a fondness for a Golden Age characters. He wrote that Avengers story where Miss America and The Whizzer (Bob and Madeline Frank) were Wanda and Pietro's parents. Then Claremont muddied the waters by changing it to Magneto and Magda (?). Recently the Magneto angle was nullified IIRC.

According to John Byrne, it was his idea thet Magneto and Magda were the parents.

[Iron Maiden]

According to John Byrne, it was his idea that Magneto and Magda were the parents.

I think both Byrne & Claremont were inspired by the brief Roy Thomas/Neal Adams X-Men run where we see Magneto for the first time without his helmet and he had the white hair. But Byrne is on record as saying he had preferred it would be an open secret. Claremont & Byrne were still on fairly good terms then so I guess the credit would go to both of them for putting that very strong hint in the story.