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Variant cover

In comic books, a variant cover (sometimes variant edition) refers to an issue of a comic book printed with multiple covers, each with unique cover art. The first comic book marketed with a variant cover was the 1986 first issue of The Man of Steel, which featured two different covers by writer/artist John Byrne. Variant covers became more common during…

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Variant cover

Nodes57
Edges56
Triples28
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035088
Components1

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Variant cover

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related to history · 9
Variant cover → Earth, John Byrne, Krypton, One, Steel, Superman, Superman's, The, The Man
related to Chase covers · 6
Variant cover → Additionally, Due, Publishers, Some, They, Verotik
related to Outside of comics · 6
Variant cover → Dawson's Creek, Friends, Smallville, The, TV, TV Guide
related to The speculator boom of the 1990s · 6
Variant cover → Guinness World Records, In, Knowing, San Diego Comic-Con, The, X-Men

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Verotik created expensive adult-only variants depicting nudityinstance ofSome smaller publishers0.80text
Variant coverrelated to Chase coversDue0.60section
Variant coverrelated to Chase coversPublishers0.60section
Variant coverrelated to Chase coversThey0.60section
Variant coverrelated to Chase coversSome0.60section
Variant coverrelated to Chase coversVerotik0.60section
Variant coverrelated to Chase coversAdditionally0.60section
Variant coverrelated to historyThe0.60section
Variant coverrelated to historyThe Man0.60section
Variant coverrelated to historySteel0.60section
Variant coverrelated to historyJohn Byrne0.60section
Variant coverrelated to historyOne0.60section

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