Machine Man #1 pg 15 by Barry Windsor-Smith & Herb Trimpe
Artists: Barry Windsor-Smith (Penciller) , Barry Windsor-Smith (Inker) , Herb Trimpe (Layouts)
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DescriptionBig check off the list with this one! First piece by BWS, and first published piece by him or Trimpe! Being a kid of the '80s there were many a 4-issue limited series I got my hands on and though I found Machine Man later it sits right up there with 'em all. It's the first book I think of when I think "BWS" and to say I'm happy to have nabbed a page is an understatement. I should've made it a priority earlier but in past years I'd think "eh, I can wait - who else cares about Machine Man?" :) Whoops. But all good - it's here now!Got Trimpe on layouts and BWS on finishes, and it's clear in those faces that it's BWS doing the illustrating. In this first issue MM is reawakened in the year 2020, but with some glitches, which are getting worked out here. My criteria in a page was MM prominently featured AND that BWS mech prominently featured as well...check and check. As far as the latter, I've been poring over the second panel lots since it's been in hand. Gorgeous stuff. And if you haven't read the mini, I'd recommend it. Vintage storytelling with a sci-fi twist that still holds up well. AND you got art like this?! Get to it. Social/Sharing |
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M L 
Member Since 2015
2 - Posted on 8/18/2025
Stupendous - everything one could want in a BWS MM example. Nailed it. Congrats KG!
Troy C. Punswick
Member Since 2008
2 - Posted on 8/18/2025
Yea that second panel is great! Really great add!!!
Kavi H
Member Since 2018
2 - Posted on 8/18/2025
grail alert! wow man what an amazing BWS page from the first issue. that 2nd panel is "chef's kiss" level, and the mention of the year 2020 is another memorable easter egg in hindsight. huge congrats!
Michael McIsaac
Member Since 2020
1 - Posted on 8/18/2025
An outstanding addition to your fabulous collection! 1980s BWS Marvel work is incredible!
Duke Fleed
Member Since 2013
1 - Posted on 8/18/2025
Probably some of my all time favorite work by WS! Beautiful stuff!
Paul P Spiderversity
Member Since 2011
1 - Posted on 8/18/2025
Congrats on your first BWS page! Total winner!
Paul Brzegowy
Member Since 2010
2 - Posted on 8/18/2025
Love the inking and it really stands out on the original page, the published page's colors muddy some of the amazing details on the page.
A fantastic example of BWS!
Benedict Judas Hel
Member Since 2020
1 - Posted on 8/18/2025
Machine Man! Machine Man! Does whatever a machine can!
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
2 - Posted on 8/18/2025
I never will forget those lines
It’s Windsor-Smith it was Machine
Remember how you McD crazy?
Remember how I Bain, you screamed
Now I don't understand what happened to Herb love
But babe, I'm gonna roll you back
I'm gonna show you Man I'm made of
I can see you-
Robot skin shinin' in the run
I see you talking real slow and you're stylin' what Barry’s done
I can sell you my love for you Trimpe / Smith be strong
After the choice hamburgers have gone
André .
Member Since 2015
1 - Posted on 8/18/2025
In black and white that almost looks like the way he drew Rogue. Excellent!
George H
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 8/18/2025
I know this was a big box to check and I'd say it was worth the wait. So much to love across the page from the futuristic street seen, BWS faces, and the wires/tech in that second panel. Congrats my friend.
K Gearon
Member Since 2011
Posted on 8/31/2025
George H wrote:
I know this was a big box to check and I'd say it was worth the wait. So much to love across the page from the futuristic street seen, BWS faces, and the wires/tech in that second panel. Congrats my friend.
You know it, man! The big hit checklist shortens, and this was a BIG hit! I agree as far as so much pure imagery from the run being a part of this page. Thanks for the add!
Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008
2 - Posted on 8/18/2025
Congrats, Kahlil! There were SO many 4-issue limited series during the 80's, and I LOVED that format so much, not to mention the 12-issue maxi-series! Artistically though, Machine Man was probably the best of them all, as this page will attest! Congrats again, pal, very nicely done!
F M
Member Since 2005
3 - Posted on 8/19/2025
Ruben DaCollector wrote:
Congrats, Kahlil! There were SO many 4-issue limited series during the 80's, and I LOVED that format so much, not to mention the 12-issue maxi-series! Artistically though, Machine Man was probably the best of them all, as this page will attest! Congrats again, pal, very nicely done!
I think you are mistaking Machine Man with ICE Man as regards the best of them all my friend ;p
K Gearon
Member Since 2011
1 - Posted on 8/31/2025
F M wrote:
I think you are mistaking Machine Man with ICE Man as regards the best of them all my friend ;p
Ha ha, I'm a big fan of the the Iceman series, too, along with Machine Man! as far as the former goes, DeMatteis and Kupperberg and Zeck covers on a character I was looking to find more of because of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends?! Done deal :) Glad you like the new page. Thanks, man, and all, for the comments!
James Dornoff
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 8/19/2025
Great combo artist team, some real industry heavy hitters and some cool art. Cheers!
F M
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 8/19/2025
Very nice page from a memorable BWS mini series, congrats.
Brian Lake
Member Since 2015
1 - Posted on 8/19/2025
ULTRA page here - BWS first appearance of this style and a McDonalds in the top panel what could be better?
Mario Losada
Member Since 2011
1 - Posted on 8/20/2025
Machine Man was a great miniseries from the 80s. Underrated.
Steve Lawrence
Member Since 2016
1 - Posted on 8/21/2025
Loved this mini-series and I've long wanted to find a great page like this. Big congrats.
Bill J
Member Since 2009
Posted on 9/3/2025
A+ Machine Man page by the great Barry Windsor-Smith Love this panel page that opens with a the city street with futuristic cars and a boarded-up McDonald's restaurant that turns out to be occupied by a couple of rebel geniuses who are rewiring Machine Man's brain. The money shot is that second panel with a geeky kid rewiring Machine Man, whose head is open, revealng all this elaborate wiring.The whole page is beautifully laid out by Herb Trimple and exquistely drawn and inked by Barry. One of the best Machine Man pages from the miniseries, IMHO. Great pick-up, congrats!
K Gearon
Member Since 2011
Posted on 9/4/2025
Bill J wrote:
A+ Machine Man page by the great Barry Windsor-Smith Love this panel page that opens with a the city street with futuristic cars and a boarded-up McDonald's restaurant that turns out to be occupied by a couple of rebel geniuses who are rewiring Machine Man's brain. The money shot is that second panel with a geeky kid rewiring Machine Man, whose head is open, revealng all this elaborate wiring.The whole page is beautifully laid out by Herb Trimple and exquistely drawn and inked by Barry. One of the best Machine Man pages from the miniseries, IMHO. Great pick-up, congrats!
I think it's one of the best, too, Bill, no bias ;) Glad you like it as much as you do, and thanks for all the comments!
Dave W
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 9/6/2025
What a wonderful page, loved the art so much in this series. Major congratulations on this gem!
Michael Weigant
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 9/7/2025
Classic issue by BWS and holy cow your first page by him ! Heck,I don;t even own one and after all these years of collecting,what's the matter with me,lol.
Tyler T
Member Since 2020
1 - Posted on 9/8/2025
This dilapidated McDonald's houses much more than a bunch of old happy meals and Grimace costumes, as we get an outstanding side profile of the inner workings in that second panel! Fantastic BWS interior and it's from the first issue :) Big congrats KG!
Kin Wong
Member Since 2007
1 - Posted on 9/13/2025
Congrats on finally achieving a BWS Machine Man pickup!
Toni S
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 9/17/2025
That mineseries are iconic. Though to find pages like this one!!! I agree you that BWS's lines are very recognizable. Art is signed by that MASTER!
Some Collector
Member Since 2017
1 - Posted on 9/29/2025
The second panel is perfect! It must draw you in to see it in person.
Jason Hussa
Member Since 2017
1 - Posted on 9/30/2025
This is a -TRIUMPH-, KG - no other way to describe it. Wow!
I, too, read this and was blown away back in the day. So much fun, but set in the unthinkably distant future of 2020?!? Inconceivable! But unlike other comics set in the "far future" (which turn out to drastically over- or undershoot where mankind might be at that fictional moment), they kind of nail it here, right?. Look at that awesome top panel and tell me that's not exactly what the world looked like in 2020! ;)
And a -brilliant- panel 2. The "under-the-hood" shot of MM is worth the price of admission, not only serving as a kind of callback / shout out to the phenomenal "time lapse" covers of the series (which assemble the pieces of Macine Man's head into a cohesive whole over the four issues), but giving us some sweet BWS shading on MM's profile (to say nothing of the stacked, packed wiring and awesome "white space" of the ear-plate)... SUPERB. PLUS all the beautiful BWS touches in the hair, gizmos, and clothing of our ragtag band of heroes and their HQ (most notably on the character working on MM: the spectacles (these are definitely not "glasses" - Barry definitely put them in "spectacles"... :) ), the hatching on the hat, the pattern on their sweater, the BOW TIE... Incredible!)
Although panel 2 is doubtlessly the money shot, my favorite may be panel 4, with undeniably BWS's clean, magnificent line on the head and face. You'd never mistake it for a Moebius, but there's a -very- Moebius-like "Starwatcher" quality to it in my eyes... there's a space and unorthodox composition to what would typically be a "talking heads" panel. This is more like a portrait or study, just dropped in there on an artistic whim, with a distinct air or feel to it. Maybe just a confidence of execution? Maybe the unmistakable sense of a master at work...? Whatever the "thing", it's a -beautiful- panel.
I know you've been gunning for one of these gems for a while now, and, WOW, man - mission accomplished! MEGA Congrats, Kahlil!!
K Gearon
Member Since 2011
1 - Posted on 9/30/2025
Jason Hussa wrote:
This is a -TRIUMPH-, KG - no other way to describe it. Wow!
I, too, read this and was blown away back in the day. So much fun, but set in the unthinkably distant future of 2020?!? Inconceivable! But unlike other comics set in the "far future" (which turn out to drastically over- or undershoot where mankind might be at that fictional moment), they kind of nail it here, right?. Look at that awesome top panel and tell me that's not exactly what the world looked like in 2020! ;)
And a -brilliant- panel 2. The "under-the-hood" shot of MM is worth the price of admission, not only serving as a kind of callback / shout out to the phenomenal "time lapse" covers of the series (which assemble the pieces of Macine Man's head into a cohesive whole over the four issues), but giving us some sweet BWS shading on MM's profile (to say nothing of the stacked, packed wiring and awesome "white space" of the ear-plate)... SUPERB. PLUS all the beautiful BWS touches in the hair, gizmos, and clothing of our ragtag band of heroes and their HQ (most notably on the character working on MM: the spectacles (these are definitely not "glasses" - Barry definitely put them in "spectacles"... :) ), the hatching on the hat, the pattern on their sweater, the BOW TIE... Incredible!)
Although panel 2 is doubtlessly the money shot, my favorite may be panel 4, with undeniably BWS's clean, magnificent line on the head and face. You'd never mistake it for a Moebius, but there's a -very- Moebius-like "Starwatcher" quality to it in my eyes... there's a space and unorthodox composition to what would typically be a "talking heads" panel. This is more like a portrait or study, just dropped in there on an artistic whim, with a distinct air or feel to it. Maybe just a confidence of execution? Maybe the unmistakable sense of a master at work...? Whatever the "thing", it's a -beautiful- panel.
I know you've been gunning for one of these gems for a while now, and, WOW, man - mission accomplished! MEGA Congrats, Kahlil!!
As always, thanks for the great comments, man! I totally see what you're saying about panel 4 and the Moebius quality...and I didn't see it until you pointed it out. Love when people see things I didn't in my art posts :) And yes...those are indeed spectacles :) Glasses? Nope! Spectacles!
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