Homage covers and the 1960s ghost
Homage covers are a joy and a trap. The joy is recognition: a pose, a city skyline, a corner box that quotes a famous paper issue. The trap is arithmetic. People quietly paste 1960s newsstand estimates into a Discord channel as if those figures were the NFT mint.
They are not. The homage is an art reference. The digital object has its own count, serials, and drop window. Site Work Hub walkthroughs name the layout, then refuse the imported numbers. That refusal is not disrespect to the original artists; it is cataloguing hygiene.
If the NFT cover also uses a foil treatment, you now have three facts: homage source, production finish, mint. Mixing them into one adjective—“secret rare homage foil”—is how clubs lose the plot. Put each fact on its own sticker.
For licence clarity: this handbook discusses those covers as a reader. It does not speak for Marvel Characters, Inc., Marvel Entertainment, LLC, or The Walt Disney Company.