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Marvel Team-Up #110 Unpublished Cover by Bob Layton!

Artists: Bob Layton (All) , David Michelinie (Writer)

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Title:	Marvel Team-Up #110 Unpublished Cover by Bob Layton!
Artist:	Bob Layton (All)
Artist:	David Michelinie (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,232
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	1/10/2021
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My FIRST Bob Layton cover! Marvel Team-Up #110 Unpublished Cover by Bob Layton! Check it out, it's beautiful! Iron Man breaks in to free Spider-Man! 1st Appearance of Magma!

Published Cover shown as well.

Synopsis for "Magma Force!"
It is 8:35 on a summer morning as Spider-Man web-swings toward the Daily Bugle building. Suddenly his spider-sense tingles and a strong earth tremor jolts the building he has landed on. A window washer on a building across the street is thrown from his scaffold, but Spider-Man saves his life by snagging his leg with webbing. This is the third temblor to hit New York in a week, muses Spider-Man as he continues on to his appointment with J. Jonah Jameson. A few minutes later, he lands on the roof of the Bugle building, sneaks into the photo lab, and changes into his street clothes. But when he enters Jameson's office, the publisher berates him for being a half-hour late. The reporter is already on his way, and if Lance Bannon weren't on another assignment, he continues, he would have sent him along instead of Peter. Then he tells Peter to get "over there" and bring back some usable pictures. Peter tries to find out where "over there" is, but Jameson just tells him to get going. Fortunately, Joe Robertson is outside the office, and he explains that Tony Stark has called a news conference this morning about the recent earthquakes. Peter thanks Joe and grabs a taxi to Long Island. Soon Peter is part of a crowd of newspeople inside a huge building, where Stark describes his "long range sonic strata scanner."

This is an enormous machine that can pinpoint the source of any earthquake in the entire western hemisphere. All of a sudden the plant is rocked by a powerful tremor that threatens to tear the sonic scanner off its fixtures. Stark runs to change into his Iron Man costume, and Peter finds a men's room in which to change into Spider-Man. As the reporters rush around in panic, the scanner works loose and starts to collapse. Fortunately, Spider-Man and Iron Man both arrive just then. Spider-Man holds the machine up with his webbing while Iron Man shatters falling fragments with his repulsor rays, and then, as the quake ceases, Iron Man shoves it against the wall where his work crews can quickly reattach its holding brackets. As Iron Man thanks Spider-Man for his help, a scientist runs up with some readouts. Before the scanner broke loose, he says, it indicated that the origin of the tremor was two miles south and a half-mile underground. Iron Man asks Spider-Man whether he is interested in helping investigate, and when Spider-Man says yes, they head for a lower-level lab complex. There they enter a "turbo-bore," a small but powerful vehicle designed by Stark International for the United States Geologic Survey to search for mineral deposits. The device has not yet been thoroughly tested, says Iron Man, but this is as good a time as any for a dry run. He hits the ignition plate, and the conical drill at the front of the vehicle begins to spin. Then a wall panel slides open, and the turbo-bore begins to drill into the bedrock beneath the factory.

Soon the bore breaks into a large, artificially illuminated cavern, where they find the ground covered with tread marks, signs that someone was recently there. Cautiously following the marks, they soon find a huge grotto containing several enormous drilling and excavating machines. Then Spider-Man's spider-sense tingles, and a group of costumed men armed with ray blasters attack. Spider-Man dodges their weapons and starts to knock them out, and he sticks some of them to the ground with web fluid. Iron Man blasts others with his repulsor rays, wondering what else such well-equipped thugs might have "up their sleeves." Seconds later he finds out when the men release clouds of sleep gas. Iron Man seals up his armor and activates his internal oxygen supply, but Spider-Man has no such protection and soon he falls down, unconscious. Then Iron Man is hit in the back by a powerful stream of lava and joins Spider-Man on the ground. Holding his lava shooter, the leader of the gang, a costumed figure named Magma, orders the men to place Iron Man and Spider-Man into the "shatter center."

The two crimefighters are taken to a vast electronic nerve center carved into the rock at the far end of the grotto and imprisoned in special devices. An electromagnetic field holds Iron Man motionless while Spider-Man is chained inside a more powerful mining machine. Gloating, Magma recalls how he was once a mining engineer named Jonathan Darque, running his own company. But the public "misunderstood" what he was doing for them, and they picketed his factories because of the ecological damage his operations were doing. Then one day one who meant more to him than all of his enterprises put together, was killed in an automobile accident as she swerved to avoid picketers at one of his sites. Shortly afterward, a class action suit was filed against his comp

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Duke Fleed aka #1 Groo Fan
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 1/10/2021

A real treasure! Love the action and the inking is super solid. Big congrats!!

Bill J
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/11/2021

Great cover! Like it way better than the published one!

John Livesay
Member Since 2009

Posted on 2/1/2021

nice one!

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