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Dan Adkins --- Cover (Alternate), Tales To Astonish #98

Artist: Dan Adkins (Penciller)

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Dan Adkins --- Cover (Alternate), Tales To Astonish #98 Comic Art

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Title:	Dan Adkins --- Cover (Alternate), Tales To Astonish #98
Artist:	Dan Adkins (Penciller)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	495
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	12/4/2019
Comic Art Archive:	Tales to Astonish Issue: 98 Page: variant cover View

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Stan Lee demanded action. ACTION!

This version of the cover for Tales to Astonish #98 by Dan Adkins, ultimately unused, did not fit the bill. It conveys the storyline inside, and it’s pretty in its own right, but definitely not very dynamic.

“Likely too soft for Stan,” agreed Roy Thomas, who wrote this story arc of Sub-Mariner.

But, let’s talk about the replacement cover, also drawn by Adkins — likely in one heckuva hurry. Sure, more dynamic. Namor, in a better pose, still unconscious. In this version we also see the attack that’s destroying Atlantis. Except… since when are New York City skyscrapers in Atlantis?

I didn’t notice the architecture til later on, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it. (Even the unused cover has modern steel girders.) Why is Empire State Building underwater? What in the name of Neptune was Dan thinking?

The unused cover has the Marvel production guides masked off by tape, leading me to believe the piece may have ultimately been printed elsewhere. Marvelmania magazine? Witzend? Convention program? Any comic book detectives out there recognize it?

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Comics Superworld
Member Since 2007

Posted on 12/4/2019

That's a great image. Has subtlety, but not appropriate for what Ye Olde Leader. Haha.

Will Gabri-El
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/18/2020

Never seen this one before, very cool...unpublished/alternate covers often tell a story.

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