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Peter Martin
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Posters or wanted posters
Hero bursting through the cover (though Howard the Duck famously did that one too) or "Introducing!"

I like how the Howard the Duck exception warrants a mention, but no famous exception for a Marvel wanted poster cover!
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Alledgedly, Carmine Infantino produce the following recipe for successful covers:

Gorillas

Dinosaurs

Motorcycles

Purple background

City in flames

Hero crying

Direct question to the reader (What is the Shocking Secret of the Seventh Superhero?)

Real? Who knows!
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To those of you who mentioned pronouncing the Martian Manhunter’s alien name as John Johns… I did the same until I read Darwin Cooke’s NEW FRONTIER.
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That's how I've always interpreted it since I was a little kid. It may not be the canon intention, but I personally always assumed that J'Onn J'Onzz was a translation equivalent in the same way that Spock and Tuvok's names were stated to be the anglicised versions of their true Vulcan names because non-Vulcan speakers cannot generally pronounce them. 
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Been re-reading that this week; absolute masterpiece. 
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Alledgedly, Carmine Infantino produce the following recipe for successful covers:

Gorillas

Dinosaurs

Motorcycles

Purple background

City in flames

Hero crying

Direct question to the reader (What is the Shocking Secret of the Seventh Superhero?)

Real? Who knows!

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I'm not sure if the exact same list was used, but Secret Origins #40 attempted to use all those sales-increasing gimmicks on the same cover. 
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Hadn’t seen that. Chris Ryall recently persuaded me to try my own hand at it. Haven’t started yet.
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