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Amazing Heroes #190 by cover by Adam Hughes!

Artist: Adam Hughes (All)

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Amazing Heroes #190 by cover by Adam Hughes! Comic Art

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Title:	Amazing Heroes #190 by cover by Adam Hughes!
Artist:	Adam Hughes (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,160
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Favorited on CAF:	2
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	3/25/2018
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Vintage Adam Hughes!

Got this from Adam:

Woman with blob on shoulder in BG: Brigid O'Shaunessy/Vanessa Bouvier from DEATH HAWK, my first interior work.

Woman at mirror making Small Penis sign: Main character of the STAR GRAZERS. Can’t recall name.

Other Woman at mirror: Ice from JUSTICE LEAGUE

Woman behind mirror and coat tree: Acacia, villainess from Crystal Comics’ EAGLE, where I did my very first assignment, a pinup of Acacia.

Coat Tree: Indiana Jones’ hat, jacket, and whip.

Green Woman: She-Hulk

Woman in curlers that colorist colored wrong: Wonder Woman

Woman with gloves: Power Girl

Woman with cigarette : NYPD Detective Roberta Bliss, from THE MAZE AGENCY

Woman in green lighting cigarette: Fire from JUSTICE LEAGUE

Woman brushing hair: Jennifer Mays from THE MAZE AGENCY.

Man at door is Neil Vokes, artist, co-creator of EAGLE, old friend and mentor.>>

Back in the day Amazing Heroes was a magazine about the comic book medium published by American company Fantagraphics Books from 1981 to 1992. Unlike its companion title, The Comics Journal, Amazing Heroes was a hobbyist magazine rather than an analytical journal.

The regular content included industry news, comics creator interviews, histories of comic book characters and reviews. Features included Hero Histories of various characters/features, previews of upcoming series, and letters page. Other regular features were a column called "Doc's Bookshelf" by Dwight Decker (which ran from 1987–1989),[2] and a question-and-answer feature called "Information Center," which ran from 1986–1989.[2]

There were regular special editions for previews of upcoming comics, and "swimsuit editions" in which various comics artists drew pin-ups of characters in bikinis and similar beach apparel. The Amazing Heroes Preview Special appeared twice a year (beginning with the Summer 1985 issue),[2] presenting previews of all comics slated to appear over the next six months. These were extra-sized issues, and were often square-bound. Many issues of the AHPS also contained joke entries. The editors fluctuated between publishing these as separately numbered specials and special issues of the regular series itself.

The Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Special debuted with a June 1990 edition.[2]

Amazing Heroes #200 (Apr. 1992) contained an extended preview of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics; the issue was later awarded a Don Thompson Award for Best Non-Fiction Work.

The Jack Kirby Award
From 1985 to 1987, the magazine presented The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books, voted on by comic-book professionals and managed by Dave Olbrich, a Fantagraphics employee and, later, publisher of Malibu Comics. Starting in 1988, the Kirby Award was discontinued and two new awards were created: the Eisner Award, managed by Olbrich, and the Fantagraphics-managed Harvey Award.

Awards won
1986: Eagle Award — Favourite Specialist Comics Publication
1987: Eagle Award — Favourite Specialist Comics Publication
1988: Eagle Award — Favourite Specialist Comics Publication
1992: Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum Award — Best Non-Fiction Work

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Vik V
Member Since 2016

Posted on 3/25/2018

Beautiful cover, Nick! Congrats!

Will K
Member Since 2006

Posted on 3/25/2018

Adam Hughes and zipatone... the good old days. Awesome piece!!!

Gal Schwartz
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/25/2018

Beautiful work... this guy could go places...

Phillip Anderson
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/27/2018

Amazing! No pun intended of course. What an incredible piece. I'm green with envy.

Shaun Crowell
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 5/1/2021

Great cover, love his early work. Very nostalgic!

A Williams
Member Since 2022

Posted on 7/13/2025

Wow, he did this only four years into his career! Just stunning!

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