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DOUBLES: Doppelgangers, Mirrored Motifs, Before/After, & Total Plagiarism

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Another instance of the Iger Studio re-using a concept, obviously illustrated by different artists... here Kismet and Wonder Boy (1944) are transformed into more popular ghouls of the pre-code era (1952).

 

 

 

 

 

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Another instance of the Iger Studio re-using a concept, obviously illustrated by different artists... here Kismet and Wonder Boy (1944) are transformed into more popular ghouls of the pre-code era (1952).

 

 

I'd seen both covers before, but never realized that the positioning, and half the puppets themselves were totally swiped. Great catch!

 

As for Fox borrowing a Spider pulp cover, those early Fox books all have a pulp feel to them, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were cribbed from pulp covers.

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Another instance of the Iger Studio re-using a concept, obviously illustrated by different artists... here Kismet and Wonder Boy (1944) are transformed into more popular ghouls of the pre-code era (1952).

 

 

I'd seen both covers before, but never realized that the positioning, and half the puppets themselves were totally swiped. Great catch!

 

As for Fox borrowing a Spider pulp cover, those early Fox books all have a pulp feel to them, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were cribbed from pulp covers.

 

In this case, I wouldn't necessarily consider this as a lazy effort by the artist of the Horrific #2 cover. Both books were created by the Iger Studio and it's possible that someone at the studio encouraged this practice since we're seeing a lot of Fiction House examples as well. Perhaps someone at the studio told the artists, "go ahead and copy our old artwork... no one remembers a 10 year old comic book!" :lol:

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I never made the connection before (unless subconsciously), but these two covers are very similar: Phantom Lady #18 and Brenda Starr #13 (#1):

 

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I'll bet this is Doll Man's dream scenario...

 

It would be mine.

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I never made the connection before (unless subconsciously), but these two covers are very similar: Phantom Lady #18 and Brenda Starr #13 (#1):

 

doubles-galsanddolls.jpg

 

I'll bet this is Doll Man's dream scenario...

 

 

Back in my days as the CBG ad rep someone had a long running ad in the classifieds that advertised something along the lines of "Giant Woman" in a small press type of section. The ad ran for years until someone gave us a tip that it was some kind of fetishist thing.

 

We ended up requesting sample copies, and it was all stuff like this, giant women (usually in bikinis) picking up tiny men, etc, expect of course amatuerish art and really cheaply done B&W line drawing on plain 8 1/2 x 11 copy paper.

 

It was weird, creepy stuff but nothing pornographic in what he sent us (of course), so we couldn't find any reason to ban him.

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