Cover Contest 8/18/2021 - 8/24/2021 LARGER THAN LIFE

[Stony]

[foxley]

Irv Novick, according to the DC Comics Database.

Novick is one of those pencillers who doesn't get nearly the love he deserves.

[Greg Hatcher]

I had a letter published in this one.

[Rob Allen]

And then there is the coloring mistake with Scarlet Witch wearing green. I guess they didn't tell the colorist her name..IIRC Stan Goldberg did a lot of the coloring work back in Marvel's Silver Age.

It was intentional. She's next to Magneto, and they didn't want so much red all together. Mastermind is in green also, but his robe was brown in the story.


PS. Greg, your cover doesn't show up. A lot of people can't see covers from coverbrowser.com.

[Iron Maiden]

It was intentional. She's next to Magneto, and they didn't want so much red all together. Mastermind is in green also, but his robe was brown in the story.


PS. Greg, your cover doesn't show up. A lot of people can't see covers from coverbrowser.com.

He would have to use the URL option.

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[Shalla Bal]

And then there is the coloring mistake with Scarlet Witch wearing green. I guess they didn't tell the colorist her name..IIRC Stan Goldberg did a lot of the coloring work back in Marvel's Silver Age.

It was intentional. She's next to Magneto, and they didn't want so much red all together. Mastermind is in green also, but his robe was brown in the story.

Right. And this did not go unnoticed at the time of publication; back in X-Men #7's lettercol, a reader asked "If the Scarlet Witch is scarlet, how come she's always green on the cover?" referring to #4 and #5's covers. Marvel editorial's responded with "Sometimes we change a costume's color on the cover just to balance things a bit!" So--as Rob Allen stated--Wanda, Pietro and Mastermind were colored differently to help balance these covers.

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

[CaptainEurope]

And then there is the coloring mistake with Scarlet Witch wearing green. I guess they didn't tell the colorist her name..IIRC Stan Goldberg did a lot of the coloring work back in Marvel's Silver Age.

For me, this cover is the only appearance of Wanda's cousin, the Lime Witch.

[foxley]

For me, this cover is the only appearance of Wanda's cousin, the Lime Witch.

If only she had been wearing a dull yellow. Then we could have had...the Sand Witch!

*crickets*

I'll get my coat.

[Tami]

If only she had been wearing a dull yellow. Then we could have had...the Sand Witch!

*crickets*

I'll get my coat.

Good one. Reminds of of this

[MRP]

Right. And this did not go unnoticed at the time of publication; back in X-Men #7's lettercol, a reader asked "If the Scarlet Witch is scarlet, how come she's always green on the cover?" referring to #4 and #5's covers. Marvel editorial's responded with "Sometimes we change a costume's color on the cover just to balance things a bit!" So--as Rob Allen stated--Wanda, Pietro and Mastermind were colored differently to help balance these covers.

right, but you have to take reasons like that with a grain of salt because Marvel had a habit of making excuses to rationalize or justify mistakes they made when they were called out on them in those days, usually tongue in cheek, but often enough it was a pattern where you have to consider the possibility any justification was made up after the fact not an actual reason why something happened the way it did. Goldberg has said in interviews somewhere (I forget where) he wasn't given any direction how to color the covers, just to get them done quickly so deadlines were met when asked about them. But again, that could be faulty memory on his part.


-M

[Iron Maiden]

right, but you have to take reasons like that with a grain of salt because Marvel had a habit of making excuses to rationalize or justify mistakes they made when they were called out on them in those days, usually tongue in cheek, but often enough it was a pattern where you have to consider the possibility any justification was made up after the fact not an actual reason why something happened the way it did. Goldberg has said in interviews somewhere (I forget where) he wasn't given any direction how to color the covers, just to get them done quickly so deadlines were met when asked about them. But again, that could be faulty memory on his part.


-M

And in the very next issue, she is given the correct color and once more she is right next Magneto


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this may be why she has he pink tights for contrast .

[thjan]

And because that annoying banner they put on everything back then detracts from the cover a bit, here is the letterless version-

[SquirrelMan]

[Ravin' Ray]