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Deathmate Yellow 1993 Cat And Mouse pg 25 Don Perlin & Mike Manley

Artists: Don Perlin (Penciller) , Mike Manley (Inker) , Bob Layton (Writer)

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Deathmate Yellow 1993 Cat And Mouse pg 25 Don Perlin & Mike Manley Comic Art

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Title:	Deathmate Yellow 1993 Cat And Mouse pg 25 Don Perlin & Mike Manley
Artist:	Don Perlin (Penciller)
Artist:	Mike Manley (Inker)
Artist:	Bob Layton (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	697
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	4/14/2012
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Deathmate Yellow October 1993
"Cat And Mouse" Pg 25
Inks over pencils on Valiant comic board
Pencils: Don Perlin
Inks Mike Manley (Signed lower middle)
Writer: Bob Layton (Signed lower left)

Ninjak confronts Zaelot.

Deathmate started when Jim Lee and his close friend, Valiant Comics publisher Steve Massarsky, arranged a Valiant / Image crossover, Lee�s characters being used, alongside those of Rob Liefeild. Four central titles would exist � two from each company � in single edition format, each edition known as a color rather than a number, plus a prologue and epilogue book. Wildstorm produced Deathmate Black, with Lee himself contributing to the writing, illustrating the covers of that book, as well as contributing to the prologue�s interior links. The assignment was given to Valiant creators against their better judgment, in particular Editor-in-chief Bob Layton, who complained about Image�s inability to meet their deadlines. Deathmate Black came out a few months after Valiant�s Blue and Yellow installments, which had come out on time, and Liefeld�s Deathmate Red was so late that Layton flew to California to procure that chapter personally, and ink it himself in an Anaheim hotel room. Layton see�s Deathmate�s lateness as one of Valiant�s �unmitigated disasters� and views that project as the beginning of the spectacular collapse of the 1990s for the comic book industry. A collpase that would pull in Marvel and a collapse that comics has not, if ever, recovered from.

The Deathmate plot evolved around a chance inter-dimensional meeting of two characters, Solar from Valiant and Void from Image's Wild C.A.T.s. The two became lovers, but their joining would mean the destruction of both comic book universes.

In this continuity, Magnus was given the name "Chris Torkelson" and was a child raised and trained by Battlestone, who was working for the Harbinger Foundation. In this series, Magnus's parents were both killed by Battlestone while trying to escape the Harbinger Foundation. Years later, Magnus would confront Battlestone about this, and fight him to more-or-less a standstill, while Geoff McHenry, the Geomancer of Earth, would lament that reality is literally coming to an end around them. The world ends as Magnus and Battlestone fight to the death.

In a world that had long since become a terrible place, Phil Seleski, the man know as Solar, reluctantly granted the wish of his lifelong companion, Gayle Nordheim, to dissipate the lifegiving energy that had kept her alive for so long. Unable to contain his grief by her passing, Phil literarily split in two. The remaining Phil vanished into a life of seclusion while the new persona, the Explorer, went off to find other planes of reality to explore.

There, in a dimension between what is real and unreal, he encountered a creature of incredible power, a woman from a distant universe � Void. The two fell in love � a love that would end all time � literarily. Upon consummating, their combined energies fused, unwrapping the fabric of time, spiraling backwards and eating away at their distinct timelines. In an instant, things were not as they should be: heroes fought along those who had been their enemies in a different world; great men who would bring justice to the world died horrible, untimely deaths. Only men with the gift of foresight, Geoff McHenry and Prophet, knew that all was not as it should be. Where they had seen the future, there was now�nothing.

Geoff and Prophet are resolved to gather the heroes of this amalgamated universe together � to fight the battle to save all time. But the evil necromancer known as Master Darque has embarked on a plan to profit from the impending universal destruction � a scheme which can only succeed if and when all life is expunged!

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Mario B.
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 4/14/2012

fantastic page............

Michael Molinario
Member Since 2011

1 - Posted on 5/6/2012

Thanks man. I haven't seen many Deathmate pages go up for sale so I had to grab this one.

frank x townsondecker
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 1/25/2013

Nice!

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