3 - Posted on 11/15/2022

Really cool piece, Lou! You know what's interesting though? If you told me this was a Bagley piece, I wouldn't doubt it for a second. Neal didn't "Adamsfy" it, but with the Bagley loook being the definitive one in 1994, I have to wonder if that had at least something to do with it. Either way, not a character I'd ever have imagined we'd ever see done by Neal, so it's a really neat rarity!

2 - Posted on 11/15/2022

So I picked this piece up from my brother Tommy and he used to have it posted on here. When he did, this was his desctiption of it:

"Spider-man the animated series was a fantastic cartoon but developed primarily to sell toys. This backer card art for Carnage was from his first figure appearance made by Toy Biz in 1994 as part of the Series 1 wave of figures. Carnage was relatively new to the comics scene having been created just a couple years prior in 1992 by Mark Bagley in Amazing Spider-man #361. Oddly enough his cartoon appearance wasn't until season 3 (1996) of Spider-man TAS which was 2 years after the figure was created. Could have explained why there was no real reference for cartoon Carnage other than the comics themselves. Neal Adams based most of Carnage's figure card looks on Mark Bagley's first full page drawing of Carnage that appeared in ASM #361"

1 - Posted on 11/15/2022

Well there you have it! And now that I think about it, the image looked vaguely familiar when I saw it, so it's likely because it was originally in Tommy's gallery and I probably had also commented on it then. Enjoy it, Lou!

1 - Posted on 11/15/2022

Very rare instance of Neal Adams drawing Spider-Man characters!  It's a great one with the wild bad boy look and vicious action pose meant to entice kids and shady action figure flippers of the 90's.

1 - Posted on 11/17/2022

I had that 4 in figure. And (like everyone else) would have sworn it was Bagley on the packaging. ❤️ the 90's