Visitor #1 broke one of shooters main rules for pro comics

[Sunlight on Snow]

Actually cover matches what happens in #1 , except for the shadowman logo, it's a little grey area, but not a clear violation

Without going too much into detail but I will if you keep applying double standards here....

There is no way of saying SM #1 is a little grey area-ish and the Visitor #1 is a "clear" violation. No way!

Shadowman is only finding and wearing his mask alongside plain black clothing. That black suit is not just missing the logo. The proper blue-ish Shadowman costume with the logo on its chest is "clearly" given to him by Nettie in the second issue thus he cannot be wearing it in the debut issue. Nobody will have to give the Visitor his costume (and mask) as he's already wearing it and it can be assumed the mask is just hidden under the hood (as seen on one of the variant covers).

The only "clear" violation of the rule is XO #1. SM #1 is very grey area-ish as Jack is simply not wearing the proper costume when he confronts Samedi as seen on the cover. The Visitor is slightly less grey area-ish; at least based on costumes and masks alone.

Another different case of grey area is Pete and Harbinger #1 by the way but it's even less grey area-ish because he's only wearing the wrong tee and can easily be recognized as he's not wearing any mask (yet). He is also given the costume in the second issue.

[Phantom]

Below is and edit of this post. As auto correct changed frew to free. Free being the publisher.

[Phantom]

Jim Shepherd ( editor of Australian frew/ phantom) said to me that a Phantom cover can only come from an image that is between panels of the content of the comic, or an adaptation of a panel in the comic. Obviously frew publications of phantom covers show 'the Phantom' and only once did not have his actually body on the cover. But all images in the cover are representative of the content.

Imagine amazing fantasy 15 and Spiderman didn't appear inside?
Why is hulk 181 worth so much more than 180 ( controversial).

Mearly missing a sword or arrow is annoying, imagine picking up a comic and not even seeing the prime selling point on the cover not even represented in the contents?

My 2p