When I started collecting these pins, I slowly started realising that the image of the pin had been swiped from the comic it was portraying.  It slowly occurred to me that every pin was a swipe and I, being the nerd I am, and a team of swipe finders, have slowly built up a list of all the pins recognised. 

  There are some rules in finding these pins.  The easiest to find is the cover art.  These just sit in plain site waiting to be found.  Then the internal art.  More difficult to find, as you have to go through issues and issues before you find anything.  But when you do, scan the whole comic, because Planet had a habit of using the same comic for multiple pins.  It has also been suggested Planet had favourite artists, mainly Jim Lee.  Maybe, I just think Jim Lee was doing some popular comics at the time (X-men & Punisher), and doing some good, easy to transfer, art at the time.  The most difficult to find are the promotional pins, images taken from cards or posters.  I have no experience in collecting cards or posters, and it's sometimes difficult in deciding if it's the original image or has been lifted from somewhere else.  Lastly, Planet altered the images in some pins, so you may not be looking for a direct copy. 

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Okay, I've separated the swipes pages into six.  Mainly because editing the page when we find a new addition is a real pain.  I'm not good at computers and while Wix is a really easy site to edit, it does mean you have to move all the text and images individually if you want to insert anything.  Also, scrolling down more than a hundred pins is tiresome.

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This first couple of pin swipes are unknown, but it gets better.