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* Gambit of the X-Men followed in Wolverine's wandering footsteps for a while too.

* Parodied with the cover of the last issue of ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'', prominently featuring a member of the popular ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' -- "[[My Friends and Zoidberg|All right, it's just Changeling, you can't have everything]]." Also, Superman's appearance in the first issue.

* The second trade paperback of DC's ''[[Justice]]'' miniseries has the [[Legion of Doom]] on the cover, with [[The Joker]] front and center. Except that the Joker was never ''in'' the Legion of Doom, wasn't broken out of prison when Legion member Scarecrow escaped from Arkham Asylum, and only makes cameo appearances in the rest of the series, in a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] as an Amish man most of the time, and he blows up a building. None of those things have any bearing on the actual plot. The ''actual'' main villains of the series, Lex Luthor and Brainiac, are shoved off to the side behind Joker, as if to insinuate that they're supporting characters instead of the main antagonists. This may be a [[Mythology Gag]] in reference to the various ''[[Superfriends]]'' series, which ''Justice'' is heavily inspired by; Joker was originally slated to be a member of the Legion of Doom, but due to a [[Filmation]] cartoon being produced at the same time getting the rights to him first, the Ace of Knaves was [[Exiled From Continuity|largely left out of]] ''Super Friends''.

* The second trade paperback of DC's ''[[Justice (comics)|Justice]]'' miniseries has the [[Legion of Doom]] on the cover, with [[The Joker]] front and center. Except that the Joker was never ''in'' the Legion of Doom, wasn't broken out of prison when Legion member Scarecrow escaped from Arkham Asylum, and only makes cameo appearances in the rest of the series, in a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] as an Amish man most of the time, and he blows up a building. None of those things have any bearing on the actual plot. The ''actual'' main villains of the series, Lex Luthor and Brainiac, are shoved off to the side behind Joker, as if to insinuate that they're supporting characters instead of the main antagonists. This may be a [[Mythology Gag]] in reference to the various ''[[Superfriends]]'' series, which ''Justice'' is heavily inspired by; Joker was originally slated to be a member of the Legion of Doom, but due to a [[Filmation]] cartoon being produced at the same time getting the rights to him first, the Ace of Knaves was [[Exiled From Continuity|largely left out of]] ''Super Friends''.

* [[Donald Duck]] is on most of the covers of ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories''. Somewhat fair, since he's also probably has at least one story in every one of them, but there are a few times where the cover art in question is actually from a story that isn't actually published in said issue.

** This is fairly legitimate in that the "duck" comics (and Disney comics in general) traditionally had covers that were more or less one-off gags unrelated to the contents (and frequently boiled down to Stuff Every Reader Already Knew, like "Uncle Scrooge is really, really wealthy" or "The Beagle Boys are incompetent crooks").