Saturday, April 07, 2012

Same Story, Different Cover: I saw a spider with eight Chinese menus in his hands / Crawling through the streets of Soho in the rain

Now here's an interesting one...


L: Amazing Spider-Man #95 (April 1971), pencils by John Romita Sr., inks by Sal Buscema
R: Spider-Man Comics Weekly #128 (July 21, 1975), pencils by John Romita Sr., inks by Sal Buscema
(Click any picture to Ben-size)


I'm guessing someone at Marvel UK's London offices actually knew that Westminster Bridge (which runs across the Thames by Big Ben Tower and the Houses of Parliament) is not Tower Bridge, which is actually about two and a half miles downriver.




1 comment:

Erik Johnson Illustrator said...

Reminds me of an episode of the animated series "Phineas and Ferb" were the title characters go to London, were they see that Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye are within a few feet of each other. They're told that all the major landmarks have been moved together so that tourists never have to ask for directions, while Phineas points out that with everything in the same place most tourists probably don't stay that long.