History Main / SplashPanel

* Creator/{{CLAMP}} absolutely '''''lives''''' for [[SplashPanel Splash Pages]]. Check the beginning of any of their manga chapters - pick a series, ''any series'' - and you'll be met with a [[SceneryPorn gorgeous, totally unnecessary spread of art, usually unrelated to the comic's actual content]].

* Anything by [[Manga/LoveHina Ken]] [[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Akamatsu]]. ''Anything''.

* One famous and much-homaged example is a Steve Ditko-drawn issue of ''{{ComicBook/SpiderMan}}'' - issue 33 - in which Spider-Man is trapped underneath some wreckage, waiting to drown. As he builds up the strength to lift it, the panels grow bigger and bigger, until the final full-page splash panel, in which he hoists it above his head.

* ''[[ComicBook/ThreeHundred 300]]'' in its original Main/ComicBook form was nothing but two-page spreads. This created some difficulty when it was collected into a trade paperback, as there would have been a massive crease in the middle of every page, thus why the ''300'' trade is twice as wide as other graphic novels.

* The last issue of ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}'' featured several particularly dark and gory splash pages. Said pages are ''beautiful''.

* Four full-page panels were added to ''[[{{Tintin}} The Crab with the Golden Claws]]'' to help pad the adventure out to 62 pages.

* ''Comicbook/{{Bookhunter}}'' has a two-page splash to establish the impressive size of the Oakland Public Library.
* ''Comicbook/EmpireState'' has a two-page splash of a southwestern American desert, and a few more of New York City upon Jimmy's arrival there.

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' is best known for this with their TV/movies satires (notably, in the first issues, the splash panel would be a page long, while later on, they'd take up two pages).

* When writing ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Karl Bollers seemed to use two-pages splashes far too often. He put FIVE PAGES of splash panels in the first part of Home-- that's nearly a quarter of the twenty-two page issue!

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', each chapter has a splash panel as its cover page, and there are further splash panels beyond those. These splash panels cover their entire two-page spreads [[note]](when reading online, these spreads are shown in full at double the width of a regular page, rather than as individual pages)[[/note]], and often feature [[SilentSceneryPanel little or no dialogue]] and [[SceneryPorn particularly detailed scenery]]. Chapter cover examples: [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-cover/ (1)]] [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-4-cover/ (2)]] [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-7-cover/ (3)]]. Non-cover examples: [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-0-pages-8-9/ (1)]] [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-3-pages-42-43/ (2)]] [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-7-pages-50-51/ (3)]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' deserves a mention too, particularly when Oda feels the need for some SceneryPorn. He also uses them whenever Luffy defeats a major villain to make that final blow feel more impactful.

* In a Creator/JossWhedon-written issue of the ''ComicBook/XMen'', after meeting up with Colossus while attempting to catch a plane, Wolverine said "I have two words for you," followed a Splash Panel that provides the page image for FastballSpecial.

* Astonishing Spider-man and Wolverine has a two page splash of Wolverine remembering his history and thinking about what else he would have wanted to do followed a three page splash of [[spoiler:Wolverine standing with the phoenix gun in his hand about to shot down the living planet.]]

* ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Wonder Woman 600]]'': Each of the stories is separated by whole pages of Wonder Woman art celebrating the character by a number of artists.

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', each chapter has a splash panel as a sort of "cover page", and there are further splash panels beyond those. These splash panels cover their entire two-page spreads [[note]](when reading online, these spreads are shown in full at double the width of a regular page, rather than as individual pages)[[/note]], and often feature [[SilentSceneryPanel little or no dialogue]] and [[SceneryPorn particularly detailed scenery]].

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* As ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has gone on, Pete Abrams has used splash panels more and more frequently, such as the ending to [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060305 "Oceans Unmoving"]], or the [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080407 "chicken" panel]] that fans insisted be made into a t-shirt.

* ''Webcomic/BladeOfToshubi'' has a two-page splash panel [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Blade_of_Toshubi/5338872/ here]].

* One famous and much-homaged example is a Steve Ditko-drawn issue of ''{{ComicBook/Spider-Man}}'' - issue 33 - in which Spider-Man is trapped underneath some wreckage, waiting to drown. As he builds up the strength to lift it, the panels grow bigger and bigger, until the final full-page splash panel, in which he hoists it above his head.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' deserves a mention too, particularly when Oda feels the need for some SceneryPorn.

* WillEisner is probably one of the first people to use splash panels in Western comics (or at least is the TropeCodifier). Eisner used splash panels in ComicBook/TheSpirit to great success.

* ''TheUltimates'' is rather fond of splash pages, which were taken to their logical extreme at the climax of the ''Grand Theft America'' story, where there was a fold-out splash page that was seven or eight pages wide.

* Astonishing Spider-man and Wolverine has a two page splash of Wolverine remembering his history and htinking about what else he would have wanted to do followed three page splash of [[spoiler:Wolverine standing with the phoenix gun in his hand about to shot doom the living planet.]]

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* In a Creator/JossWhedon-written issue of the ''ComicBook/XMen'', after meeting up with Colossus while attempting to catch a plane, Wolverine said "I have [[TwoWordsObviousTrope two words]] for you," followed a Splash Panel that provides the page image for FastballSpecial.

* An early issue of ''TheSavageDragon'' was done entirely in splash panels, in homage to the Thor example above.
* In a Creator/JossWhedon-written issue of the ''{{ComicBook/X-Men}}'', after meeting up with Colossus while attempting to catch a plane, Wolverine said "I have [[TwoWordsObviousTrope two words]] for you," followed a Splash Panel that provides the page image for FastballSpecial.

* In ''TheWarlord'' Mike Grell would usually have a two-page splash panel an issue.