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* ''[[The Legend of Koizumi]]'' takes this to the extreme. Then goes beyond that with it's penultimate chapter witch consist entirely of one of these... spread over 26 pages.
* Anything by [[Love Hina|Ken]] [[Mahou Sensei Negima|Akamatsu]]. ''Anything''.
* ''[[
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** The second-last issue of ''[[Nextwave]]: Agents of H.A.T.E.'' lampooned Steranko's effort and featured ''six'' consecutive splash pages that could be arranged to make one big one in a very open attempt on the authors' part to get people to buy six copies.
** The [http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv324/immortalpictures/promethea32a.jpg final] [http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv324/immortalpictures/promethea32b.jpg issue] of [[Promethea]] can be arranged in two sixteen-page splash panels.
* One famous and much-homaged example is a Steve Ditko-drawn issue of ''[[
* During Walt Simonson's run on ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'', an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the above sequence in #365 involved Thor, transformed into a small frog, desperately trying to lift his hammer.
** Simonson's Thor also included issue #380, which was told exclusively in splash panels to emphasize the epic scale of the battle with the Midgard Serpent. It worked.
* In a [[Joss Whedon]]-written issue of [[Astonishing X-Men]], after meeting up with Colossus while attempting to catch a plane, Wolverine said "I have [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|two words]] for you," followed a Splash Panel that provides the page image for [[Fastball Special]].
* ''[[
* ''[[The Ultimates]]'' is rather fond of splash pages, which were taken to their logical extreme at the climax of the ''Grand Theft America'' story, where there was a fold-out splash page that was seven or eight pages wide.
* The entirety of the last issue of the Death of ''[[Superman]]'' storyline was nothing but splash pages.
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** Earlier in the book there is a two-page splash panel when Adrian Veidt defends himself from an assasin. It doesn't take up the whole of both pages though, its the size of a single page and placed right on the center seam, the only panel in the book span two pages. The reason? The entire chapter's panel layouts are a palindrome and the splashpage is right in the middle, emphasizing the mirrored layouts.
* On most ''[[Asterix]]'' books, rather than devote several pages to the climactic battle, there is instead a full-page bird's-eye view of the whole thing, often with handy charts and footnotes showing who's doing what to whom.
* Four full-page panels were added to ''[[Tintin
* [[Will Eisner]] is probably one of the first people to use splash panels in Western comics (or at least is the [[Trope Codifier]]). Eisner used splash panels in [[The Spirit]] to great success.
* Every issue of Cable & Deadpool opens with a splash page, usually of Deadpool fighting something. In one case, an army of evil clowns.
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* Used in ''[[The Beano]]'' especially in older ''Bash Street Kids'' strips especially when it used to be called ''When The Bell Rings''.
* ''[[Bookhunter]]'' has a two-page splash to establish the impressive size of the Oakland Public Library.
* ''[[
* Some later ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'' comics played with the idea of 2-page splash panels by putting the left half on the final page of an issue and the right half on the first page of the next.
* Astonishing Spider-man and Wolverine has a two page splash of Wolverine remembering his history and htinking about what else he would have wanted to do followed three page splash of {{spoiler|Wolverine standing with the phoenix gun in his hand about to shot doom the living planet.}}
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