Knowledge Waits: Rejected Spider-Man Covers

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By Brian Cronin

Published Apr 7, 2016

In CSBG's latest look at interesting pieces of comic book history, they take a look at rejected Spider-Man covers!

This is the latest in a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. Here is a collection of all of the installments in the feature so far.

Today we take a look at some rejected Spider-Man covers.

Enjoy!

Probably the most famous rejected Spider-Man cover of all-time is Steve Ditko's original cover for Spider-Man's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15...

The Ditko cover eventually became a variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man #700, and is a very valuable modern comic still.

Steve Ditko's greatest creation, Fancy Dan, debuted on this rejected cover for Amazing Spider-Man #10...

The always helpful Nick Caputo has a cool rejected cover for Amazing Spider-Man #35, where Jack Kirby had to redraw Ditko's Spider-Man so that we weren't seeing Spidey's butt on the cover...

Clearly, Marvel decided not to highlight the drug use in Amazing Spider-man #97 as much as Gil Kane thought they were going to with his original cover...

Here's John Romita's published cover...

Black Cat's debut in Amazing Spider-Man #194 had this rejected cover by Keith Pollard and Bob McLeod...

Al Milgrom drew the cover that got published...

Tony Salmons shared an unused cover for Web of Spider-Man Annual #1 in this great interview with Michael Fiffe...

Charles Vess drew the cover that got published...

Here's Bob Layton's original cover for Amazing Spider-Man #262...

and here's the photo cover they published...

Here, though, it was unlikely that the Layton cover was REJECTED, so much as it was the springboard for the photo cover idea

Go to the next page for more rejected covers!

Reader Jay W. suggested two rejected covers that were published in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22, although I don't know which issues that they were orginally intended for...