Is Zabu endorsing Fark?
Derek B. Haas | Email | 11.30.06 - 5:24 am | #

Does every Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck cover drawn by Don Rosa count? He always puts D.U.C.K. on every cover & every splash panel. It stands for Dedicated to Uncle Carl from Keno. Uncle Carl is Carl Barks and Keno is Rosa's first name.
Dwayne "the canoe guy" | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 5:34 am | #

I remember seeing the back of Spider-Man's head in one of the "splash page with a billion heroes on it" shots in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Unfortunately, I can't remember which issue it was in...
Doug | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 7:38 am | #

Legion of Super Heroes #300 has a great two-page pin-up at the end of the issue featuring every Legionnaire ever...and the Amazing Spider-Man. He's just to the right of Matter-Eater Lad.
Tenzil | 11.30.06 - 7:41 am | #

Just remembered:

In the issue of X-Men that introcuded Dazzler (#120?), Cyclops and Phoenix go into a downtown nightclub, where one of the patrons looks an awful lot like the Joker.
Tenzil | 11.30.06 - 7:43 am | #

I was just going to mention Legion #300. Not only is Spider-Man there, but so are several DC staffers (don't know who), Batman, and Garfield the cat.
Matthew E | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 7:44 am | #

This one is pretty obvious, but there's that issue of Morrison's new X-Men where Ethan Van Scriver hid the word "sex" on almost every page. And the issue of Earth X with the anti-Bob Harras message scrawled down the spines of books on a shelf.

I only seem to remember the ones people lost their jobs over.
David Cutler | Email | 11.30.06 - 8:01 am | #

I kind of like Hey, a Jim Steranko Effect
Steven | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 8:25 am | #

Mike--thanks for the entertaining mini-survey of Easter Eggs.

I'd like to mention that Alan Moore's TOP 10 books are full of this kind of eyekicks, as is my sequel, TOP 10: BEYOND THE FARTHEST PRECINCT.

They've all been annotated by the indefatigable Jess Nevins here;

http://www.geocities.com/athens/...7160/ annos.html
Paul Di Filippo | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 8:35 am | #

In the big 2-page splash from Avengers/ Ultraforce (or was it Ultraforce/ Avengers?), George Perez drew in (or had the artists associated with the characters draw)several characters not owned by Marvel (including Groo).
Mike Loughlin | Email | 11.30.06 - 8:55 am | #

Lots of Easter eggs in Perez epics:

-- Peter Parker is taking photos in Crisis On Infinite Earths #5.

-- Clark Kent wears a pinky ring for one panel in Crisis #9, in homage to George Reeves.

-- Crow and Tom Servo appear in Rick's museum in Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect.

-- The Cathy Lee Crosby Wonder Woman (miscolored) and the Debra Winger Wonder Girl show up for one panel in Infinite Crisis.

-- All kinds of Where's Waldo-style background detail in JLA/Avengers, which was pretty much anything-goes.

Alex Ross also put Captain America and Thor in a Kingdom Come crowd scene, and made robots/battlesuits out of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper uniforms.
Tom Bondurant | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 9:05 am | #

Todd McFarlane snuck Spider-Man into the big crowd scene at the start of INVASION #2.

The Martian Manhunter is in the crowd at Bouncing Boy & Duo Damsel's wedding in SUPERBOY & THE LEGION #200.

Clark Kent and Lois Lane attended a press conference early in Karl Kesel's run on Daredevil.
Chris Galdieri | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 9:16 am | #

A few items of note:

Item the 1st) Of all the work Michael (comic god) Golden should have been doing, that sad fact that he was producing covers for U.S.1 is a freakin' CRIME!
The fact that since he WAS the cover artist is what caused me to actually BUY some of those issues is my own secret shame.

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Item the 2nd) It's hard to tell (due to the small scan) but if I'm not mistaken, isn't that Zippy the Pin-Head on that Spectre cover (just below Deadman's "crotchital-area")?
And LONGSHOT is about 4 or 5 people below Spectre's feet.
And is that DOCTOR STRANGE (in civvies) just below SPOCK?

Maybe?

Mikester, check and let us know.
ThanX!

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Item the 3rd) In Uncanny X-Men # 125, there's a scene in a Shi'Ar gala ball (Lilandra had just been crowned Empress) in the background are:
POPEYE & Phantom Stranger.

There are MANY issues where Terry Austin hid characters (like the robot from Lost In Space), but I can't recall issue numbers at this time.

~P~
P-TOR
SanctumSanctorumComix | 11.30.06 - 9:18 am | #

Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen all show up to cover the unveiling of the Ultimates in The Ultimates #3.

Marvels is chock full of cameos, though the one I always remember is the Beatles at Reed and Sue's wedding.
Patrick | 11.30.06 - 9:29 am | #

Oh, and I think that's PLASTIC MAN near the bottom right corner of the SPECTRE cover.
(2 people above "Hercules" and right next to the "THING")
And just above him... is that "ITTO OGAMI" (of Lone Wolf & Cub)?

Hard to tell.

~P~
P-TOR
SanctumSanctorumComix | 11.30.06 - 9:48 am | #

KINGDOM COME has a ton of Easter Eggs, including

*Rorschach and the Shadow in the background in a bar scene

*The Monkees (Peter, Davy, Micky & Mike) in the Justice League

Also, in the IC SECRET SIX mini-series, wasn't there a "grim and gritty" version of the Inferior Five for one panel?
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 10:10 am | #

Dwayne - Mickey Mouse appears in Don Rosa's duck stories, too...sometimes with something terrible being done to him.

Tenzil/Matt E. - Legion #300 is a great one...I should'a scanned it!

David C. - Alas, I don't have that particular version of the Earth X (or Universe X, or whatever) in the Archives to scan. Maybe someone can help a brother out....

Paul D. - Boy, if I got into Top Ten, I'd still be scanning! But, yeah, that series is an Easter egg dream.

P-Tor - Ain't nuthin' wrong with U.S. 1. It's just plain ol' goofy comics. As for the other Spectre cameos...yeah, that's them, I think, though I don't know if that's Zippy so much as his brother Lippy, given what he's wearing.
Mikester | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 10:14 am | #

The only art-themed Easter eggs I can think of involve John Byrne's "X-Men: The Hidden Years." On most if not all of the covers you can find the hidden issue number that the issue was "supposed" to have.
Chad | Email | 11.30.06 - 10:17 am | #

Savage Dragon has almost nonstop easter eggs too, but that was almost from the begining. Larsen just loves drawing in people in the background.
He also does alot of partial easter eggs, distinctive hand and feet hanging in from offpanel.
Adam | 11.30.06 - 11:31 am | #

Don't forget the easter egg that got Al Milgrom fired from Marvel!
Sleestak | Email | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 6:41 pm | #

And hey, there's a chubby guy wearing a Marvel/Miracleman outfit in "Dark Knight Returns." You must check it! It's in Book 4.
M. A. Masterson | Email | Homepage | 12.01.06 - 2:11 am | #

I followed the occasional news of the Terry Austin Murders with greta interest in 80's comics.

Not to mention one of the the Nuclear Terrorist Clones, Bob Layton!
Sleestak | Email | Homepage | 12.01.06 - 3:41 am | #

Back when he actually drew things and before it all went south, didn't Todd McFarlane used to insert Felix the cat into a large number of his drawings?
Chris Griswold | Email | Homepage | 12.01.06 - 4:14 am | #

Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olson appear at a party in an issue of Ultimates.
Chris Griswold | Email | Homepage | 12.01.06 - 4:15 am | #

Kinda obvious choices, but fun:

Moore, Bissette, and Totleben hangin' out on the street in front of the defenestrated Emma in Swamp Thing 37.

Batman robots cornering Fat Albert's gang in Kingdom Come.
Josh | 12.01.06 - 4:30 am | #

In issue #3 or #4 of the original "Hawk & Dove " miniseries that unleashed Rob Liefeld upon an unsuspecting world, during a fight scene at the National Air and Space Museum, inker Karl Kesel (bless him) turned three doubtlessly nondescript bystanders in the background of the splash page into Reed, Sue, and Franklin Richards.
N.A. | 12.01.06 - 1:10 pm | #

Anyone remember the flashback of Matt Cable being ambushed, after getting off a plane by the Three Stooges and Groucho Marx in that very same 1983 issue 19 of Swamp Thing?
Anonymous | 12.01.06 - 2:42 pm | #

Clark Kent is attending the Daily Bugle Christmas party in the Marvel Team-Up issue with Red Sonja. He and Lois also turn up in the New York issue of Excalibur (which also has David Letterman on the cover), and they show up 1940s style in the Sting of the Green Hornet mini-series.

Also, the scenes of super-powered Daxamites flying en masse in The Great Darkness Saga contain Marvel characters (or riffs thereof, anyway) scattered throughout.

I'm pretty sure Mastermind in first series of The Batman Adventures was supposed to be Paul Dini, which makes me wonder if Mr. Nice was supposed to be Bruce Timm. And the Perfesser, of course, was modeled after Russell Johnson.
Bill D. | Email | Homepage | 12.03.06 - 1:56 pm | #

Bill D. - If I remember correctly, those Batman Adventures villains were supposed to be Denny O'Neil, Mike Carlin, and Archie Goodwin...which is why Mr. Nice got the big sendoff after Goodwin passed away.
Mikester | Homepage | 12.03.06 - 6:09 pm | #

I can't remember which issue in particular, but one issue of Rann/Thanagar War - on a page where a huge army of hawk people are flying through the sky - you can see Peanut from Harvey Birdman and I think there may be another hidden in there.
Tom | 03.21.07 - 9:24 pm | #

I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but in a TON of Doctor Strange issues (mostly 1970's stuff) various artists (Tom Sutton, Rudy Nebres & Jim STarlin come to mind) would write secret messages into the "squigglies" design in Doc's golden (yellow) border of his cloak.

The most recent one that I remember was in an issue of MUTANT X where the artist wrote "I AM STRESSED" in the cloak design.

~P~
P-TOR
SanctumSanctorumComix | Email | 12.11.07 - 1:58 pm | #

I'm quite surprised that no one mentioned that every issue of Groo had something hidden in it.
The Mad Monkey | 04.05.08 - 6:11 pm | #