{"id":23745,"date":"2020-07-06T07:25:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=23745"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:54:24","slug":"joe-kuberts-cover-layout-for-superman-vs-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=23745","title":{"rendered":"Joe Kubert&#8217;s Cover for Superman vs Muhammad Ali!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z070620kubert_supermanvsali.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z070620kubert_supermanvsali.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first glance the art above looks like the cover to the classic comic <em>Superman vs Muhammad Ali<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is actually the cover created created by the great Joe Kubert.\u00a0 Yes, it&#8217;s hard to believe that beautiful piece of art wasn&#8217;t used.\u00a0 Neal Adams took Kubert&#8217;s idea and created a new masterpiece that was actually used for the cover.\u00a0 Adams also went a step further by drawing the faces of 172 celebrities in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fine folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/thebristolboard.tumblr.com\/post\/622856944616652800\/classic-cover-by-joe-kubert-layout-and-neal\">The Bristol Board have posted<\/a> up not only large versions of Kubert&#8217;s art and Adams&#8217; finished cover but also a key listing all of the celebrities in the crowd.\u00a0 Click over and you&#8217;ll see that Superman&#8217;s bout against Muhammad Ali was attended by folks such as President Jimmy Carter, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Christopher Reeve and many others!<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Jerry Ordway for the tweak to this original post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance the art above looks like the cover to the classic comic Superman vs Muhammad Ali, right? Wrong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38819,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions\/38819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}