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You missed Maddie Pryor, Jean Grey clone and Stryfe, Cable clone.

Most of the original Marauders were cloned multiple times.

Match was a clone of Superboy.

Inertia is a clone of Bart Allen.

Cyborg is technically in a clone body, Nightwing got him a new body back in the Titans run.

X23 is an altered clone of Wolverine.

Galatea on the Justice League cartoon was a clone of Supergirl.

Lex Luthor is in a cancer free cloned body, right?

Joseph, clone of Magneto.

Robot clone of Rex Plode (in Invincible).

Namorita is (was) a clone of Namora.

Judge Dredd’s a clone!

Cover with only Sue – Fantastic Four 332

The Stepford Cuckoos are clones of Emma Frost.

Rico is also a clone of Judge Fargo.

FF 364 has Sue vs. Malice. So even though there’s two characters, she’s the only one on the cover!

And Guardian was in a cloned body at some point during the Kesel Superboy run, I’m sure.

Cover game: FF#195 http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=32328&zoom=4
has Sue with Namor.

Cover game: FF#384 as malice

Those anonymouses were me by the by.

While a number of the things you mention about Byrne’s run are sharp, smart and even inventive touches, I disagree about the cover homages. While we recognize those poses from the first appearances of Superman, FF and Spider-Man immediately, mopping them for a cover homage (or an interior panel homage) is not clever. (Much less “pretty darn clever”!)

Wasn’t Marvel’s Guardian a clone at one point too? As well as the rest of Alpha Flight?

Obscure clone: Grok, from the Don McGregor run of War of the Worlds (Killraven), was a botched clone of Carmilla Frost’s father.

Say, didn’t someone clone Jango Fett at one point?

Byrne’s comic strip characters – there’s Dennis the Menace’s father, Walt from Gasoline Alley, and Dick Tracy (sans fedora!).

Byrne also homaged FF #1 with the fourth issue of Danger Unlimited.

I’m impressed you managed to write so much about Byrne while remaining Snark Free. Bravo. (Though admittedly, much of the snark should rightly be targeted to his later career…)

Thailog, the clone of Goliath, appeared in the recent issue of Slave Labor’s Gargoyles series.

Cover homage – rhyming names. Rhane, Cain, and Dane. Nice one.

It was 416, not 402.

396 has just Sue.

I thought that 369 (the Infinity War one) did, but The Thing is on there too.

Over on the left of the Byrne panel, it appears that we have Leroy and Loretta Lockhorn and Blondie Bumstead. I’m blanking on the name of the balding red haired fellow. He’s from an old strip yes? (I’m much better at this than all that clone nonsence)

Balding Guy looks like Jiggs from Bringing Up Father.

I’m drawing a blank in the others, my local newspapers were light in comic strips…

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Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

Oh, and the couple entering the room are obviously Hi & Lois!

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Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

Rahne, Dane, and Cain, in addition to all rhyming, were also all members of Excalibur.

Re: Reed and Sue’s party: Sue, wearing a wig, is greeting Hi and Lois Flagstone (using their aliases, Hyram and Lois Fieldstone) at the door. The Lockhorns and Blondie have already been mentioned, and Dagwood is just below Blondie. The white-haired guy is Skeezix of Gasoline Alley, and the redhead is Jiggs, of Maggie and Jiggs. Not sure about the mustached fellow in front, but it might be Dagwood’s neighbor Herb. In the lower right corner, it’s Dennis the Menace’s father. On the couch, I don’t know who the yellow sweaters are, but the blue suit on the right is Dick Tracy (based on the nose).

I think Byrne’s inside joke here was that Reed and Sue were moving to a suburb in Connecticut, and Byrne picked Greenwich, the location of the (then) International Museum of Cartoon Art. The Museum was (is) a pet project of Mort Walker, hence the prominence Byrne gives to Walker’s characters (Hi and Lois). Later, the Museum moved to Boca Raton, FL, and recently announced that it will move to NYC and will be renamed the National Cartoon Museum (although an announced plan to locate inside the Empire State Building has evidently fallen through). http://www.cartoon.org/

The yellow-sweater-wearing male is Joe Palooka, no?

Cover game – Fantastic Four #363:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=97248&zoom=4

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Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

>10. The Manhunter from Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson’s classic serial was a clone, too!

Actually, the hero of the strip was the real deal. It was the assassins created by the Council that were all clones of the original.

Best/Walter Simonson

yeah, that is Herb – and the yellow sweaters are Joe and Ann Palooka…

>10. The Manhunter from Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson’s classic serial was a clone, too!

Actually, the hero of the strip was the real deal. It was the assassins created by the Council that were all clones of the original

And later Geoff Johns revived the Council and revealed they’d replaced the Manhunter clones with Sportsmaster clones.

How about Doctor Doom’s clone, who he tried to give the powers of the Fantastic Four and use as his heir to the throne in FF v.1 #198-9?

Very obscure one – - Sunspot was briefly replaced by a clone (created by Mojo, if I remember correctly) in New Mutants Annual #2.

Wasn’t “Shift” from the Outsiders technically a clone of the original Metamorpho?

-M

Fantastic Four #399, because that is NOT actually Reed Richards on the cover with Sue. It’s actually Reed’s evil other-dimensional counterpart, the Dark Raider. Yes, seriously! So I should think that it qualifies as a solo Sue cover, from a certain point of view, as Obi-Wan Kenobi might say

I know most people didn’t like the DeFalco/Ryan FF era, but I’m rather fond of it. And I *also* liked Byrne’s run on the title. I have very diverse tastes.

And later Geoff Johns revived the Council and revealed they’d replaced the Manhunter clones with Sportsmaster clones.

———–

And THAT, my friends, is decadence.

And Walt Simonson is here, cool!

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Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

In Byrne’s comic-strip homage panel, the mustachioed fellow looks like Jeff, the short guy from MUTT AND JEFF.

The Stepford Cuckoos are clones of Emma Frost

Wait. Really? They weren’t in Morrison’s run.

If so, that’s the dumbest thing ever.

There’s still a Gwen Stacy clone running around somewhere.

The new Captain Comet is a clone of the original Captain Comet in the 8 issue Mystery in Space min that recently came out. Not to mention the bad guys were also Captian Comet clones and there is an implication, if not outright statement, that the current incarnation of the Wierd is also a clone.

Actually, the hero of the strip was the real deal. It was the assassins created by the Council that were all clones of the original.

Best/Walter Simonson

Duh!!!

What a dumb mistake that was. Thanks, Walter.

The (DCU) Guardian has been cloned multiple times.

The Manhunter who got killed by Eclipso was a clone.

The Cuckoos were revealed to be (along with thousands of other) clones of Emma Fronst in Phoenix Warsong – one of the stupidest X books in the past year.

Donna Troy is basically a clone of Wonder Woman – at least in theory, if not in scientific “fact”.

Cyborg is, indeed, inhabiting a clone body. For a while, he didn’t even HAVE an actual body – see the end of Wolfman’s New Titans, and the beginning of Grayson’s Titans.

Cassandra Nova is sort of a clone of Xavier.

I know you said “non-Spider-Man-related”, but I always thought it was really cool the way they dropped hints of Kaine’s real identity (a “failed” clone of Spidey who was more powerful, but disfigured) through his powers.

He had pre-cognitive visions (a souped-up version of Spidey’s spider-sense), he was stronger and faster, and the “Mark of Kaine” he left on his victims? Spider-Man’s adhesion power, ramped up and used on human flesh.

To be honest, so long as they didn’t try the “is he or isn’t he a clone” nonsense, I wouldn’t mind seeing both Ben Reilly and Kaine come back. It was hard to dislike those characters, even as the story got more and more frustrating.

Vandal Savage has repeatedly cloned himself in order to harvest the clones for organs.

Shift is NOT a clone of Metamorpho – he’s a piece of Metamorpho. Difference.

Ra’s Al Ghul’s lackey Ubu. He’s been cloned sooooo many times that there are armies of him. Some have no intelligence.

The Mauler twins from Invincible. One of the more original clone scenarios because each if them argues that they’re the original.

Dennis the Menace’s father is a dead ringer for that one guy from Funky Winkerbean, a strip John Byrne, coincidentally, later drew for a bit.

Re: clones–

I think the Ra’s al Ghul who appeared in THE LEGION a few years ago was a clone.

A Manhunter clone was in the original SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS as well.

Baron Bedlam and Windfall were both cloned during the original run of THE OUTSIDERS.

I don’t think the INFINITY WAR duplicates were clones. They were altered extra-dimensional creatures if I remember my Starlin correctly.

Close to the end of PAD’s run on Hulk, didn’t Hulk fight a clown of himself? The smart one who was hanging around with Janis? I don’t have my comics with me, but I’m pretty sure that was a clone…

Cover Challange: I own all those issues? Nah, too subtle…

cannonball, black knight and jugg were all villians when they debuted?

The Cuckoos were revealed to be (along with thousands of other) clones of Emma Fronst in Phoenix Warsong – one of the stupidest X books in the past year.

Aaaaaaggggh!

(I hate everything.)

Close to the end of PAD’s run on Hulk, didn’t Hulk fight a clown of himself?

No, that was Avengers #1. Loki wanted to make him look bad, so Hulk was hiding out at a circus, where his shtick was juggling elephants. And he was dressed as a…

…oh, wait, you didn’t really mean “clown” at all, did you? Now I’m sad.

I’ll accept both Excalibur and the rhyming one for cool points!

Only the first one was intended, though. I am too honest to take credit for the cleverness of the second one.

Maybe it’s because I’m not American but I don’t recognise a single character in that panel

The Guardian in the 90′s Superboy was always a clone of the original Jim Harper. The Newsboy Legion that was hanging out at Project Cadmus were clones of teh original Newsboy Legion who were, in fact, the top scientists at Cadmus.

Auron was an augmented Guardian clone that held the files with Superman’s DNA code on them.

Weren’t the Underworlders, Project Cadmus creatures (and Morlock wannabees) also clones?

Spider-Man’s eight limbed Infinity War clone hung around long enough to be a player in the Maximum Carnage storyline.

The whole SW6 batch of the Legion of Super Heroes (pre-Zero Hour) were not so much clones as duplicates split off in time by the Time-Trapper, who was really another version of Cosmic Boy.

Also, Duplicate Girl and Multiple Man’s powers involve making duplicates of themselves. Do they count?

What about the hudreds of Lobo clones that appeared in Our Worlds at War? They all killed each other except for the “new” Lobo and Slo-Bo, who hid from the fight.

And then, there’s Robin’s recent failed 98 attempts to clone Conner Kent.

I’d add my vote to Multiple Man counting as clones.

And why does that FF #247 spread feel so familiar?

Among clones, in UXM #167, Moira MacTaggart and Sikorsky cloned Professor Xavier and had his mind transplanted into the clone’s body(the original having been transformed into a Brood hunter)

Sue Richards appeared solo on the cover of Fantastic Four, Vol. 2, Issue 2. Cover by Alan Davis.

“Shift is NOT a clone of Metamorpho – he’s a piece of Metamorpho. Difference.”

This is true, but didn’t he originally believe himself to be Metamorpho?

It’s a bit of a stretch, but I think it couts, if only a little bit.

-M

Don’t forget the clone of Mojo! Mojo 2: The Sequel!