title: Homage cover
text: # Homage cover
  
  Homage cover, in comics, is the intentional copying of a cover from an earlier comic book or graphic novel that directly acknowledges the original artist. Homages often occur when a comic is rebooted to demonstrate continuity with earlier volumes. A common target of homage is the first edition of a particular comic (see list below).
  
  ## List of homage targets
  
  Covers that have been frequently homaged include:
  
  * Amazing Fantasy #15 - first appearance of Spider-Man; Spidey swings across the page carrying a crook
  * Fantastic Four #1 - where a giant monster emerges from below a street.
  * Action Comics #1 - where Superman holds a car over his head.
  * Superman #1 - where Superman is posed in the middle of a leap high above a city skyline.
  * Superman #14 - where Superman stands with a bald eagle on his left arm.
  * Superman #243 - where Superman is kissing a woman whose face is not shown due to the perspective of the pose.
  * Justice League #1 - members of the team standing in ranks looking upwards to the 'camera'.
  * Giant-Size X-Men #1 - where the new team of X-Men seemingly burst out from the cover while the older X-Men team looks on horrified from above.
  * The Incredible Hulk #1 - Bruce Banner is over shadowed by the Hulk.
  * Superman #199 - Superman races the Flash in a foot race (cf. Superman #463).
  * Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  * Adventure Comics #247
  * Adventure Comics #300
  * Avengers #4 - Best known for the heroes charging towards the reader, particularly Captain America holding his shield on one arm, with his right arm pointing backward.
  * What If? #1 - Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four burst through a page of black-and-white comic book art.
  * Uncanny X-Men #136 - A weeping Cyclops holds the dead Jean Grey in his arms. (As Thor #127 (1966) or after Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (Superman 1985)). This kind of cover was an homage to Michelangelo's Pietà.
  * Transformers #5 - Shockwave standing in front of a wall with the words "Are All Dead".
  * Uncanny X-Men #141 - older versions of Wolverine and Kitty Pryde stand before a poster featuring their fallen comrades. The beginning of the "Days of Future Past" storyline.
  