SPOT The DIFFERENCE: The AVENGERS #4...

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Above is a production stat of the cover to AVENGERS #4 as originally drawn and lettered, below as it was published.  As you can see, CAPTAIN AMERICA's right head winglet has been altered to match the left one, and the jagged outline around the larger caption has been removed, along with the words 'THE REAL'.

This was in reference to a Cap impostor having recently appeared in a HUMAN TORCH story in STRANGE TALES #114.  MARVEL obviously wanted us to know the original was back, but then must've realised that we were smart enough to figure that out for ourselves.  The SUB-MARINER caption has also been slightly repositioned.

Marvel amended the production stat for their first printing of The Avengers MARVEL MASTERWORKS in 1988, but overlooked the head winglet.  Below is how it appeared in that valiant volume.

BABE Of The DAY - DANA GILLESPIE...

What's that, DANA?  You want me to come

to bed and make mad, passionate love to you?

Why don't you start without me and I'll join you

 when I've read my comic.  I'm at a good bit.

SPOT The DIFFERENCE: The AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #11...

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Yet another cover variation for you, Criv-ite chums, this time 'round The AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #11.  Up above is how STEVE DITKO originally drew it, but fearless leader STAN LEE wasn't happy with the way Sturdy Steve had drawn the web-spinner's legs, so got Jolly JACK KIRBY to 'fix' them before publication (as you can see below).  And, as I'm sure you'll already have noticed, DOC OCK's face looks like it's also been slightly revised.

But wait, that's not all!  When the ish was reprinted in MARVEL TALES #148 in 1982, the cover was flipped, Spider-Man's legs were again redrawn, Doc Ock's face was 'slimmed down' even more - and he was given a new pair of glasses that didn't quite sit right.  Three versions of the same cover is going a bit overboard, even for Marvel!

So whaddya make of that, frantic ones?  Personally, I don't think the right leg Jack drew is an improvement.  Feel free to leave a comment in the you-know-where.

And just so you don't feel like you're missing out on anything, below is the Marvel Tales version.  (How to ruin a Steve Ditko cover without even trying.)