10 Comic Book Covers That Totally Lied To You
7. Quasar #29
You may recall the famous 1991 Vanity Fair cover featuring a naked, pregnant Demi Moore, holding her belly. The cover was tasteful and groundbreaking, but it also spawned a ton of copycats. That's exactly what you have with the cover of Quasar #29, but it isn't Demi on the cover.
Instead, the cover features a very clothed and shocked-looking Quasar, holding his pregnant belly in the same style as Demi Moore. It's a stark image, and certainly strange, seeing as Quasar lacks the necessary... ahem, parts, to carry or give birth to a child, so what was going on behind the cover?
The story revolves around "Her," who was introduced as a counterpart to "Him," who became Adam Warlock. Her was designed to be His perfect mate, but when she arrived on Earth, she found that Adam Warlock was dead. She quickly left to travel the cosmos, not knowing where to go or what to do.
Eventually, she returned to Earth after Warlock was resurrected, but he wasn't interested. Lacking her ideal mate, she turned to other male heroes and impregnated them... sort of. Instead of becoming pregnant as the cover suggests, the men had cocoons placed on them, making this cover a bit misleading.