DC pays homage to classic comic covers with Harley Quinn, the Justice League, Batman, and more

gamesradar.com:

The trend of variant covers for modern comics which pay homage to classic covers from history is only growing. Following DC's reveal of a set of interlocking covers for DCeased: War of the Dead Gods by Dan Mora which form a tribute to Jim Lee's X-Men #1 interlocking covers from 1991, the publisher has unveiled a whole wave of homage variant covers as part of its August 2022 solicitations, including a set of tributes to classic Batman covers featuring Harley Quinn as her title goes weekly in August.

To start, Guillem March's cover for August 2's Batman #126 pays homage to Todd McFarlane's cover for Amazing Spider-Man #316, the original version of which shows Spider-Man being overpowered by Venom. Then the cover for August 2's Dark Crisis #3 from Mike Allred, seen here in pencil, pays tribute to George Perez's cover for Crisis on Infinite Earths #1.

Then there are the Harley variants, all drawn by Ryan Sook, each of which channels a classic Batman cover, subbing in Harley Quinn for some of Batman's allies over the decades.

First, August 2's Harley Quinn #18 homage variant evokes the original cover of 1940's Batman #1. Then August 9's Harley Quinn #19 pays homage to Detective Comics #38, the first appearance of Robin. 

The homage variant for August 16's Harley Quinn #20 channels Detective Comics #359, the original debut of Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, while Harley Quinn #21's variant pays homage to Brian Bolland's cover for Batman: The Killing Joke. Finally, the weekly story caps off in Harley Quinn Annual #1 with a cover that comes full circle by paying homage to Jim Lee's cover for Batman #608.

And though that's all of DC's official homage variants for August, there's a bonus tribute cover hiding in the solicitations, with