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The Fox is Dead.  
 
Basically There is a generational hero (ala the Phantom) who has defended the city of San Corona for centuries.  One day him and MOST of his support staff go missing.  City gets worse, blah blah blah
A previous Fox (pushing 90) gathers a team of young heroes together to find out what happened to the current fox and crew and defend the city
Without getting to much into it, one of the new heroes became the new Fox and defeated the Lex Luther like big bad

The Fox is Dead.  
 
Basically There is a generational hero (ala the Phantom) who has defended the city of San Corona for centuries.  One day him and MOST of his support staff go missing.  City gets worse, blah blah blah
A previous Fox (pushing 90) gathers a team of young heroes together to find out what happened to the current fox and crew and defend the city
Without getting to much into it, one of the new heroes became the new Fox and defeated the Lex Luther like big bad

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

That's great!
 
See---
 
Now I've admitted before and do so again that I am _not_ an artist or a graphic designer or anything along those lines.  Most of what I know is self-taught, with _loads_ of help from _very_ wonderful, very accommodating people with actual expertise.  And brother, I _need_ the help!  I can write.
 
Period.
 
 
I like the comic-book looking corner brand you've got going on there; it works well for the theme.  I won't comment on the white lines from some layer issues because, as you noted, it's a "very rough" draft.
 
Anyway, one of the things that _everyone_ who helped me learned absolutely beat into me was that white space = death of interest.  Never have white space.
 
Go as fancy or as simple as you want, but never white space.
 
 
All artistic elements should either be working together-- that is, creating a single theme / image / story, or clearly divided into separate parts (I think the Champions Now cover is a great example of that, with the central character serving a nice subtle divider between the four different stories going on.  If you have elements that don't work together, get rid of them  (that's one of the hardest parts for me, actually, because I have _zero_ visual arts talent  ).
 
That being said, think about a different font-- I like the colors, as they pull from the flag in the background, but think about a font that evokes "flag-related" imagery: military stencil?  (not my thing, but I can see it working) something akin to the title of the Declaration of Independence-- it doesn't matter, so long as it works with the theme.
 
Same with your characters:  they look great, but perhaps select two that are more "in-uniform" looking, or more "patriot" or "agent" themed.  Don't ditch the characters-- don't even change their look, if you like them the way they are; consider swapping them for characters that "look" more like what you're selling:  a book of agents / agencies.
 
Going back to white space:
 
take the text in that white block and
 
1) clean it up better or completely re-type it, _absolutely verbatim_, as I assume it's mandatory legalese.  Either way, even in PDF, that jpg "crawl" that's been cropped around it shows on the screen, and it will look positively _nasty_ in print.
 
2) Consider (or at least ask about) re-arranging it more spread-out full width so as to assign it less vertical space on the cover
 
3) void the white space.  Even if you have to retype the boilerplate from scratch, let there be nothing but the text and the image it's laid on top of.
 
I went and looked before finishing typing this, and the ones I used aren't around anymore (they don't seem to last long), but--  and I swear, it took me _forever_ to figure out why this was, and when it hit me, I threw up just a little bit in my mouth, but still, they are _extremely_ good at this....
 
Wait, let me back up a bit--
 
The images that HERO Games provides / mandates look like crap.  I don't mean that to insult them; I did a review of the HERO System Book of Templates on youTube some time back; you can see it for yourself.  For one, they are way-too-low-rez for anything: if you're computer screen is less than five years old, they even look like crap on that.  if you're still using a screen that makes 72dpi look amazing, then ignore any suggestions I have about those
 
Part of the reason they look so awful (and print _nauseatingly_ badly: it's like when my pushing-80-years-old mother in law tried to print on glossy paper a photo she'd taken with a flip phone a decade or two back) is the ridiculously low resolution.  The other problem is jpeg-ery.  You can see the fractal fuzz just _slime-ing_ it's way around the images, and the black itself starting to swirl within its own borders.  (I wasn't kidding:  _NEVER_ use anything from jpg if there's a chance it might see print or that a sharp, crisp image is important to you.  NEVER!)
 
Best thing for those is to drop a new transparent layer and redraw them, even if you have to trace.  Delete the jpg layer completely, and save in vector (preferred) or png (workable for _any_ screen-only application, and _most_ print shops).
 
 
Anyway, I got off track:
 
Enlarging something to make it fit your background is always, always, always bad.  You will triscuit-ize the particular element you are looking for, and no image is _ever_ better than it's worst element:  the worst element, no matter _how good_ it might actually be, will always catch the eye because it is _subjectively_ bad owing to better elements around it.
 
As noted, work with, at a minim, 600 dpi.  Make your "blank page" 600 dpi; add your elements to it.  Elements of lower resolution will, by default, be reduced in size.  Don't enlarge them (see "triscuit-izing," above).  Replace them with larger ones if you have them.  You can _shrink_ them _much_ more safely if they are png (but even they don't enlarge seamlessly), and effortlessly if they are Vector.  Vector is the _only_ format that can safely be enlarged without concern.
 
Photoshop was _terrible_ at up-rezzing images  (sometimes you just don't have a larger image you like better, you know?).  You know who is _great_ at upsizing?  And usually _free_?!
 
Weabos.  (Damn I hope I spelled that right).  Seriously:  there are anime sites, and there are weabo sites.  Find a weabo site with a fan-built up-rezing feature.  They are _better_ than any commercially-bought software I've ever tried, and depending on what you're doing and who built the software---   well, I have found some that could turn a 72dpi screen capture into a tabloid-sized poster and still look reasonable.  Some fuzziness at the edges; sometimes some blurriness, but sticking to practical-for-your-purposes sizes, you should be able to get to most any image to a reasonable size and still have a nice image.
 
I started to appreciate the talent those guys have, and that they would offer it for free like that.
 
Right up until I figured it that it was so they could turn a screen capture into a....  a, uh....   "Body pillow."
 
Then I got a little sick.  
 
 
Still, some of them have serious talent!
 
Also:
 
Hit Jason up just to see if you can get permission to re-color the Hexman logo- either to the 6e color scheme, or even red-white-and-blue (bolder, solid colors so that it will stand out).  If you can't get it to match the cover theme, then maybe he will at least let you make it look contemporary.
 
Honestly, I don't know why the Hall of Justice Champions logo wasn't done in medium blue and chrome yellow, just as a theme, but that's probably just me.    
 
My last comment also goes to white space:  consider some sort of background color for your imprint, even if it's just "silver"-- anything to lose the white space.  Add color to your logo-- neutrals, darker pastels, whatever-- to the fount and some color to the cornucopia.  Realistically, the cornucopia can stay as-is; it's got a nice wood-stamp look to it.  Just consider minimizing the white space everywhere you can, to include possibly reducing the vertical space you've dedicated to "#1."  That space can stay white: comic book tradition and all that.
 
For what it's worth, having a "waving" flag was suggested over a static one because of the amount of white space in the flag.  Notice that with the waving flag, you get wrinkles and shadows, creating greys and slivers, actually reducing what is _interpreted_ as white space.
 
 

Ripper is her name,  killing pimps is her game.  She is a genetically engineered cat human hybrid, bred for prostitution, but the first time she was to be put to work she scratched the eyes out of the John.  Now she patrols the mean streats of campeign city putting an arrow through any pimp or john she can find...

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

Wait, people agreeing with me, WHAT!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

You are welcome to use the generics
 
https://jawedel01.wixsite.com/kountry-gaming/copy-of-hero-games
 
 
 
 

I would say -1/2 in my games, but -1/4 in a star wars game (based on explosions not being that common)

Yes, they have a sister program called STRIPES:
 
Special Target Assualt Response Squads
&
Special Target Reconnaissance Investigation Policing Espionage service
 
Working on a fact sheet for them for Hall of Champions right now

Thought I would say hi...

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

So many years ago (during 5th edition revised) I got an idea for a campaign.  
 
A few false starts
 
Decided to make it a book (never happened)
 
Started it about a year and a half ago.
 
In the first time in 40 years of gaming, a campaign ended at a natural end...I have NEVER had that happen before in any RPG

So had the Medical Examiner character (precog) get a vision right before her and the captain would be shot leaving the station after describing how bad things had gotten
 
This led to an investigation on who did the shooting, ending in a fight by two agents of "The evil Corp" though as usual they know who but can't prove it...
 
China town lit on fire as a forecast of next session.  (China town mob is the only group not under evil corp...also guardian of one of the magic anchors keeping the big bad from being released...3 down, 2 to go)
 

Actually the Iron Man cartoon from the 90's show a good example of this. Tony was a Multiform who would transition armors in the field.  James was an OIF (maybe OIHID)

Giving it to Quackhell

As I had the only entry, I am calling myself the winner
 
For mine I found this, I was kind of looking for a blank slate to submit,,,
 

Meet Wendy, the messenger of Death.
 
The Messengers are those who bring the soul to their afterlives.  Wendy died in the 1800's but death found her cheerful attitude so amusing he made her one of his agents.  Now she helps souls to move on to their next life, often helping them get closer before hand (Helps them do that last errant, say goodbye to someone they love, etc...).  She does her best to make people realize death is not scary, just another part of life as such...
 
I'm thinking of her like the old Cain and Able from Houses of Mystery and Secrets, where each of her stories start with her claiming the soul of someone, then we get to see an interesting story about their life...Often with a little bit of unfinished business getting done in the end (The weeping Widow smells a trace of her husband's cologne and knows it's going to be okay...)

Meet Wendy, the messenger of Death.
 
The Messengers are those who bring the soul to their afterlives.  Wendy died in the 1800's but death found her cheerful attitude so amusing he made her one of his agents.  Now she helps souls to move on to their next life, often helping them get closer before hand (Helps them do that last errant, say goodbye to someone they love, etc...).  She does her best to make people realize death is not scary, just another part of life as such...
 
I'm thinking of her like the old Cain and Able from Houses of Mystery and Secrets, where each of her stories start with her claiming the soul of someone, then we get to see an interesting story about their life...Often with a little bit of unfinished business getting done in the end (The weeping Widow smells a trace of her husband's cologne and knows it's going to be okay...)

Meet Wendy, the messenger of Death.
 
The Messengers are those who bring the soul to their afterlives.  Wendy died in the 1800's but death found her cheerful attitude so amusing he made her one of his agents.  Now she helps souls to move on to their next life, often helping them get closer before hand (Helps them do that last errant, say goodbye to someone they love, etc...).  She does her best to make people realize death is not scary, just another part of life as such...
 
I'm thinking of her like the old Cain and Able from Houses of Mystery and Secrets, where each of her stories start with her claiming the soul of someone, then we get to see an interesting story about their life...Often with a little bit of unfinished business getting done in the end (The weeping Widow smells a trace of her husband's cologne and knows it's going to be okay...)

Okay, Yak for Stamina it will be...only thing that even kind of works
 
Assualt, thank you T will be changed to Tiger.  however for my own reasons I will be keeping Mouse (For the Sentai Team, I like the idea of Mouse)