Johnny Craig & John Romita Sr. - Tower Of Shadows #1 Pg 6

10 3/4"x 15 3/4"

Interior page from „Tower of Shadows“ #1 (1969), story called „From Beyond The Brink!“.
Johnny Craig did the art for this story, but when Stan Lee was disappointed with the appearance of Craig's characters (particularly the attractiveness of the female) he had John Romita Sr. draw new faces, which were carefully pasted over Craig's art. The paste-ups are all original art. Check additional picture to see Johnny Craig‘s original art underneath some of those paste-ups. The top right panel was completely re-drawn by Romita.

Romita's role in that story has been covered in many places:

- here's an article with a quote from Mark Evanier: https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2009/02/number-468-touched-and-retouched-i-knew.html

- Romita's role was acknowledged by Marvel in the letters page to "Tower Of Shadows" #4 (see attached picture): https://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5453

- the Grand Comic Database (comics.org) lists the credits as Craig with Romita alterations: https://www.comics.org/issue/22978/


Thanks to Jeremy Radisich!