What I mean by homages of this cover is covers that are clear that they're homaging THIS cover, you know, with the people in the background and everything.

Thanks,

Shaun

First appearance of Mr. T (alias "Axe").

Tintin goes to ol' blighty to catch a counterfeit gang. This isn't one of the best Tintin books, but it's interesting because there are no less than three different versions of the adventure.

The first was serialized on the belgian comic supplement Le Petit Vingtième in 1937-38 and later compiled on a B&W album. The second version was the 1943 color album, which was a colored and slightly altered version of the original. But on the 60s, the british Tintin publisher said that version was too out-of-date and suggested Hergé to do a new one. He did it in 1966 (most of the gruntwork was done by his assistant Bob de Moor) and this is the version we know nowadays.

And you guys thought Batman's origin had a lot of different versions...

There is a book in french compiling all three versions side by side. It's quite fun to see the differences between each one of them!

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

It was dulled quite a bit by other Supergirls coming back after that (particularly the current one, who most resembles the "dead" one), but still, it has some real impact.

What do you say, Jeff?

Great two-part story, too - one of my favourites from the Morrison era.

"Is it really such a good cover? I always felt Superman’s arms are too long - if he really held Supergirl like that, then his big red S wouldn’t be visible."

He's in proportion - it's just that it'd normally be hard to hold a person in that pose that low.

Then you remember that it's freaking SUPERMAN (pre-Crisis version, even), and that curling Kara's weight probably wouldn't be that big a deal. Actually, I always liked Perez's (and, I suppose, Garcia-Lopez's) lankier rendition of Superman - having him be too bulked up misses the point a bit. It's why I'm not a big fan of Quitely's version of him in All-Star; he looks too doughy.

Big question now is whether Crisis can go two-for-two with #8.

Oh, wait. Wrong time line. Never mind.

IDENTITY CRISIS #7 took a major DC characte's wife and set her on the path to becoming a major league villain for the last several years.

Some other notables: Star-Spangled Comics #7 featured the debuts of Guardian & Newsboy Legion, TNT & Dan the Dyno-Mite and Robotman, which is a whole lot of awesome in just one issue.

And, um, let's see, Blue Diamond came and went in Daring Mystery Comics #7, and Freedom Fighters #7 introduced the never-again-seen Invaders clones, the Crusaders.

The Fury of Firestorm #7 was the first appearance of Quebecois Separatist Terrorist Supervillianess Plastique, who, after a few appearances in that book would go on to reform, marry Captain Atom, and then get divorced and unreformed entirely off-panel between Captain Atom relauches and wind up hooked up with a minor Batman villian.

Cerebus #7 was the first appearance of Elrod.

Taboo #7 was the final issue of that anthology series, and contained the prologue that is the only part ever published of the Neil Gaiman/Michael Zulli "Sweeney Todd".