We’re all familiar with copycats. Something becomes popular, and everyone tries to copy it. Back when the first Indiana Jones movie proved to be a smash, posters for every adventure B-movie copied the look of the hit movie’s poster.
Heck, even the packaging for the VHS tape of Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze mimicked Indy.
Then I saw this cover of Complete Detective (click on the image to see a larger version) on eBay. At first glance, I thought it was a Doc Savage pulp. It sure looks like the Man of Bronze.
(The cover of this August 1938 pulp was painted by Norman Saunders.)
I wonder how often pulp publishers aped the covers or characters from the most popular pulps to boost the sales of their own pulps?
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