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Justice League 60 Unpublished Cover Chris Sprouse JLI Giffen Dematteis Breakdowns

Artists: Chris Sprouse (Penciller) , Keith Giffen (Writer) , J.M. Dematteis (Writer)

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Justice League 60 Unpublished Cover Chris Sprouse JLI Giffen Dematteis Breakdowns Comic Art

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Title:	Justice League 60 Unpublished Cover Chris Sprouse JLI Giffen Dematteis Breakdowns
Artist:	Chris Sprouse (Penciller)
Artist:	Keith Giffen (Writer)
Artist:	J.M. Dematteis (Writer)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	986
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	8/15/2020
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The Giffen/Dematteis Justice League was one of my favorite books growing up.
Chris Sprouse did all of the covers for the last issues of their run, with the exception of the last issue (60), which was done by the original artist From the run, Kevin Maguire.
Evidently Sprouse did the original version of the cover for issue 60. My guess is they decided last minute to have Maguire close it out instead, but Sprouse’s cover was so good, they decided to use the same concept and layout that he already did.
Compare it to the published cover.

Being a huge JLI ans Sprouse fan, this page is a rare treasure that I am very happy to have in my collection.

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Mike Holman
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/17/2020

Great piece , I can't say that I've ever seen an unpublished cover that is so close to the actual finished used version, strange call to pay Maguire to turn in an almost identical version !

Brandon Coffey
Member Since 2015

Posted on 8/17/2020

Mike Holman wrote:

Great piece , I can't say that I've ever seen an unpublished cover that is so close to the actual finished used version, strange call to pay Maguire to turn in an almost identical version !

Thank you! Right!? Maguire came back to pencil this final issue of the Giffen/Dematteis run, so it would make sense to let him do the final cover as well. It just looks like they made the decision on the cover after Sprouse had already done a perfectly good one. There's things I like better about each of them. The Maguire cover obviously has his great trademark character expresssions, but I like the scale, proportions, and layout better for the Sprouse one.

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