Clearly I held the camera with my third hand.
A little follow-up on the Robin discussion from Monday…turns out I did have a copy of #2 floating around the shop, still sealed in its original bag. Wasn’t the greatest shape, so I performed the not-quite-ultimate sacrifice by popping the bag to present all the goodies within right here! I’M OUT LIKE A BUCK FIFTY FOR THIS POST, PEOPLE.
You saw what the front of the bag looked like last time, so here’s the back with all the poop on properly operating your Special Technology Cover™:
What they don’t tell you is that the insert you’re supposed to be pulling through the cover is…a bit flimsy and can be tricky to push back in after pulling it through. It’s definitely a two-hand operation.
And once again, like last time, I made a GIF so you can get an idea of what’s going on here:
If it’s hard to tell, it’s a pic of Robin that changes into the Huntress, or vice versa.
This is what that insert looks like removed from the cover:
And here’s side two:
And BEHOLD, the jaggiest of Robins (with the Huntress Professor X-ing it out of his forehead):
And just for the sake of completeness, here’s the included poster featuring the image from the “regular” version of this issue:
And there you go, friends…the 1990s. You never knew what wild cover gimmick was coming next, and this one was definitely in the upper echelon of “…what?”
More variant cover discussion coming Monday! And remember, if you have any suggestions as to where this terrible path should lead us, feel free to let me know!
I was curious as to what the original art for these was like and found this Mike Zeck art for the cover to #1: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/mike-zeck-robin-iii-cry-of-the-huntress-1-cover-illustration-original-art-group-dc-1992-total-/a/7076-93388.s
I never saw that Robin/Huntress card. I, um, just wanted everybody to know.
On the Gripping Hand…