Wednesday, July 24, 2013

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 205: Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a super-match


House ad for Showcase #85 [Firehair] and Adventure Comics #384 [Supergirl] (both September 1969); printed in Teen Titans #23 (September-October 1969)
Comic cover art: Showcase #85: pencils and inks by Joe Kubert; Adventure #384: pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

A good cover deserves a second look. Here's Adventure #384 again:


But, y'know, it doesn't seem quite right. Oh wait! Here, I fixed it:


3 comments:

Blam said...


I'm not sure whom you're emoting for, Kara, but the camera's over here.

Volar, eh? Does that make the projection beam a Volar ray? Paging Bobby Rydell...

I hear that Karate Kid wouldn't stop with the "Uoxon, Uoxoff" jokes.

...

Okay, I'm done.

-- MrJM said...

Deep thought: If a Swan/Anderson picture of Supergirl is off-model, is it off-model?

-- MrJM

SallyP said...

Never date anyone who wears purple and green! They are obviously a villain.