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Captain Marvel at the Dinosaur Petting Zoo, by John Lucas

Location: Convention sketches #1
Artist: John Lucas (All)

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Location: Convention sketches #1
Title: Captain Marvel at the Dinosaur Petting Zoo, by John Lucas
Artist:  John Lucas (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Convention Sketch
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 1160
Likes on CAF: 0
Comments: 2
Added to Site: 9/12/2005

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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.

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aric shapiro Member Since 2006
Posted On 11/20/2007

I LOVE this
Roger K. Member Since 2005
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Posted On 6/20/2008

There is an actual cover--on a later issue of Whiz or Captain Marvel Adventures--that had the big red cheese with some baby dinosaurs. I don't remember if it actually said "petting zoo," but it was very similar to the sketch.