The Incredible Hulk #1
Man or monster?
Jack Kirby’s looming Hulk and the smaller Bruce Banner silhouette became a template for transformations, alter egos and monster parodies.
- Homage entries
- 85
- Verified
- 17
- Upcoming
- 1
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
A dungeon full of familiar covers. Explore Carl and Donut’s tributes across comics, manga, games, music, and film.
36 distinct covers
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The Incredible Hulk #1
The Incredible Hulk #181
Three figures. One first encounter.
Herb Trimpe’s Wolverine debut cover frames a leaping combatant between two towering opponents, a confrontation echoed across decades of comics.
- Homage entries
- 64
- Verified
- 34
- Upcoming
- 0
The Walking Dead #1
One survivor in a dead world.
Tony Moore’s storefront scene places a lone survivor against a crowd of walkers. Later artists turn that street into a stage for heroes, monsters and parodies.
- Homage entries
- 33
- Verified
- 21
- Upcoming
- 1
X-Men #1 (1991)
A team across the gatefold.
Jim Lee and Scott Williams spread the X-Men’s confrontation with Magneto across four connecting covers and a gatefold edition. The panorama became a template for entire fictional universes.
- Homage entries
- 34
- Verified
- 31
- Upcoming
- 3
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Iconic origins.
Explore each composition’s descendants, grouped by distinct artwork and documented across published editions.
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Giant-Size X-Men #1
A new team breaks through.
Follow Kane and Cockrum’s breakthrough team composition across superheroes, humor and independent comics.
- Cover groups
- 100
- Documented records
- 68
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The Amazing Spider-Man #316
Venom is back.
Explore McFarlane’s villain-over-victim composition across superheroes, horror, indie comics, and convention exclusives.
- Cover groups
- 51
- Verified records
- 33
Action Comics #1
The car that started it.
Joe Shuster’s Superman debut echoes across superheroes, indie comics, humor, magazines, and convention editions.
- Catalog artworks
- 97
- Related editions
- 16
- Upcoming
- 1
The Amazing Spider-Man #129
In the crosshairs.
The Punisher’s debut confrontation echoes across Marvel, indie comics, humor, science fiction, and convention exclusives.
- Homage artworks
- 79
- Related editions
- 46
- Upcoming
- 2
The Amazing Spider-Man #300
One pose. One circle.
Todd McFarlane’s black-costume Spider-Man, circular frame, and repeating numerals echo across decades of comic covers.
- Distinct homages
- 137
- Related editions
- 116
Spider-Man #1
The Torment pose
Todd McFarlane’s 1990 cover became one of comics’ most persistent visual quotations—a web-bound crouch reimagined by superheroes, monsters, cartoon icons, and independent creators.
- Distinct covers
- 183
- Related editions
- 135
Amazing Fantasy #15
The first swing
Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko’s 1962 composition introduced Spider-Man in motion—and established a visual template that artists have carried across superheroes, animation, horror, humor, and independent comics.
- Distinct covers
- 70
- Related editions
- 18
Batman #423
A cape becomes shelter
Todd McFarlane’s 1988 cover turned Batman’s cape into a protective silhouette—an image reinterpreted across superhero comics, independent books, magazines, ashcans, and published art books.
- Distinct homages
- 30
- Related editions
- 28
Absolute Batman #1
The massive silhouette
Nick Dragotta and Frank Martin’s 2024 cover transformed Batman into a monumental frame around Gotham—and quickly became a visual template across comics, magazines, art books, sketchbooks, and published interior art.
- Distinct homages
- 64
- Related editions
- 20
- Upcoming
- 8
The Dark Knight Returns #1
A silhouette in the storm
Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s 1986 lightning-split silhouette became a lasting visual shorthand, reworked across superhero comics, independent books, parodies, and anniversary editions.
- Distinct homages
- 51
- Related editions
- 22
- Upcoming
- 1
The Incredible Hulk #340
Three claws. One reflection.
Todd McFarlane’s 1988 confrontation placed Wolverine in the foreground and reflected the Hulk across his claws—a composition reimagined across superhero comics, independent books, parodies, and convention exclusives.
- Distinct homages
- 131
- Related editions
- 48
Uncanny X-Men #141
The future on the wall
John Byrne and Terry Austin’s 1981 cover placed Wolverine and Kate Pryde beneath a devastating grid of wanted posters—an image reworked across superhero comics, magazines, independent books, and convention exclusives.
- Distinct homages
- 94
- Related editions
- 11
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