This two-panel page of original art comes from the fifth chapter of Frank Miller's Sin City — the serialized noir that would come to be known as The Hard Goodbye — as it ran in Dark Horse Presents #54 in August of 1991. Marv, the franchise's hulking anti-hero, takes center stage here in a brutal alley encounter that exemplifies everything that made the series an instant landmark in American comics...and evidences how Marv goes about getting new coats! This is peak Miller — pulp menace cut with absurdist black humor, the kind of moment that defined Marv's voice for the rest of the saga.
Drawn on Miller's standard art board, the page is signed in pencil at the bottom margin and carries the production notation "THG 61" in the lower left (signifying its page number in the collected TPB of the complete story), along with the original issue and page indications in the upper margins. The Hard Goodbye was a watershed work — Miller's first fully creator-owned project after leaving Marvel and DC, the book where he abandoned color entirely and pushed his black-and-white storytelling to its expressive limit. It launched the Sin City universe that would run for over a decade in print and ultimately reach a new audience through Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film adaptation.