Indestructible Hulk #6 Iron Man Hulkbuster Variant Cover by Dale Keown

This is a stunning full bleed cover used for the 6th issue of the Indestructible Hulk series pencilled and inked by Dale Keown. It features a dominant image of the Hulk front and center trading blows with Iron Man (in his amazing Hulkbuster armor). This is an extremly dynamic cover - it easily springs to life allowing the viewer to imagine the movements unfolding and to hear the deafening, roaring and thundering noises from this giant battle.

Keown is best known for his work on his self-created Pitt series but learned how to draw enormous, hulking man-beasts by teaming up with Peter David as the creative team on Incredible Hulk. He is now back full circle, once again rendering hard hitting images of Hulk! This Hulk cover is about as good as it gets by the modern master. The art has an image area of approximately 11" x 17" and is signed by Keown at the upper right.

Note this cover is Keown's version, later it was lightboxed by inker Mark Morales for the published cover - unfortunately it seems that Morales made a great number of modifications, more or less ruining much of Keown's amazing work, so it's a real pleasure to see Keown's original cover.

Furthermore this cover has absolutely nothing to do with the story inside the book Indestructible Hulk #6, because Hulk does not battle Iron Man at all in the book, and Hulk does not look like shown on the cover inside the book (actually Hulk wears metal armor and battles Thor in the book). So this original art cover simply shows an impressive battle scene, Hulk vs. Hulkbuster Iron Man. Thus the art should be seen for what it is in itself - that is without any direct association to the story within the Indestructible Hulk #6 book.

Should anyone think - "what is all that stuff flying off the Hulk, sweat or saliva?". But no, it is pure Hulk blood as shown on the published cover, probably also explaining the Teen+ rating! ;-) There's also a great 3D-like "pop out" effect of Iron Man's left fist - hard to see on the scan, but easy to see on the art itself.