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Robert Bradley
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Other favorites which have been the subject of multiple homages -
AMAZING FANTASY #15 AVENGERS #4 JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 (many of them by Kevin Maguire himself) SHOWCASE #4 X-MEN #100
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John Byrne
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If it's not X-MEN #141, GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 might be the post-1970 cover with the most homages.•• It's hard to call "homage" on that one, since the "bursting thru" motif long predates GSXM. The additional figures across the top -- which are pure Dave, btw, not part of Gil's pencils -- would be the "tell", of course.
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John Byrne
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X-MEN #100•• Another one it would be hard to single out, really. Carmine Infantino was doing those figures-charging-each-other covers long before X-M100. And don't forget THIS: 
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I see your point, it's something like the "Death of Supergirl cover from CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #7 and the Cyclops/Jean Grey cover from X-MEN #136 which are part of a long line of covers with similar poses (as mentioned here in another discussion).
To be an actual direct homage to the Kane/Cockrum cover it would need to include the additional figures.
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John Byrne
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I see your point, it's something like the "Death of Supergirl cover from CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #7 and the Cyclops/Jean Grey cover from X-MEN #136 which are part of a long line of covers with similar poses (as mentioned here in another discussion).•• George has said many times that his CRISIS cover was inspired by a Kirby THOR cover, with Odin holding Thor. No reason to doubt him. I do, however, see a wee bit of what I call "swiping from memory". Sometimes images slide into an artist's catalog and slip out with him/her even being aware. I have seen this happen more than a few times in my own work -- after the fact! It has a lot to do with all of us going to many times to the same well!
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AVENGERS SPECIAL #2 is another -
as is AVENGERS #70 -
An homage is one of those things that you just "know one when you see it."
An homage for a cover like X-MEN #100 or GS X-MEN #1 has to be faithful to the layout to make it effective, because if you stray to far there are plenty of other similar covers.
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"Swiping from memory" probably happens a lot - I don't know of John Buscema was trying to make those Avengers covers so similar, or if he just thought it worked for the Avengers/Squadron Supreme cover and it was coincidentally similar.
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Who drew the Spider-Man figure on that Fantastic Four #73 cover?
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The Grand Comics Database attributes it to Kirby & Sinnott. If so, that's one of Kirby's better-looking Spider-Mans. He seemed to be a character he drew pretty well early on, but didn't really translate well to the blockier style he used in his later Marvel work.
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I'm reasonably sure that John Romita inked all of the Spider-Man art in that FF issue, including the cover.
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'Breaking thru' the cover pre-dates even ACTION #1. Everyone from Baby New Year to Huck Finn did it. A good way to break from convention and always visually interesting or, at least, eye-catching:
with variations like Batman and Robin breaking through a movie screen and Wonder Woman through a newspaper:
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