If you cannot put a control (in your case, an image control?) in any section and drag the lower bar of that section over top of it, how do you expect to resize it so that these images are no longer visible? Your solution might be to make the first page a separate report and put that in a sub report control in the header of a new report. Size the header of the main report so that the image controls placed at the bottom appear to be in the footer. Whatever text you have for the first page would have to be in controls that have their grow/shrink property = yes if you want to place the images just underneath. That should leave the rest of the report showing up on subsequent pages, but in the sub report.
Without a better understanding of what your report actually looks like, I'm just throwing out ideas here.
The more we hear silence, the more we begin to think about our value in this universe.
Paraphrase of Professor Brian Cox.