Captain Marvel at the Dinosaur Petting Zoo, by John Lucas

John Lucas was at the Big Apple show with a couple of piles of original art. Looking through it, I saw some Detective Comics pages, and a bunch of stuff from a book called Forever Maelstrom. And then I learned John was the guy who did "I Was the Bride of Rothro, King of the Flying Vampire Gorillas From the Earth's Core," a very memorable story that appeared in the Negative Burn anthology series. After I found that out, well, I just had to get a sketch by John. I asked him if there was any character he felt like drawing. He suggested the original Captain Marvel. I said "Sure, you can draw the Big Red Cheese." I came back an hour later, and my jaw hit the floor when I saw this. Calling it a "sketch" seems like an insult. The idea of Cap at a dinosaur petting zoo was funny, just the sort of thing you might find in a C.C. Beck comic. John mentioned that it was inspired by an actual Cap story. A search on www.comics.org later revealed that Captain Marvel Adventures #123 was the issue in question.