CLICK HERE FOR AUCTION LISTING!17.5x24" artboard has pen and ink/mixed media original art for front cover of Destroy!! #1, published by Eclipse Comics, November 1986. Art is by Zot! creator Scott McCloud and features an explosive, action-packed image of The Red Basher bursting through a concrete wall. "Eclipse Comics Presents:" logo and text block at bottom center are pasted stats. Main logo and rest of cover are original art.
Destroy!! was touted as "The Loudest Comic-Book In The Universe", with McCloud serving up readers a full 32 page issue slugfest between The Red Basher and Captain Maximum.
Minimal .125" margins all around and has been personalized "To Gary " and signed by McCloud as just "Scott". Back of artboard has light soiling. Stats have even light aging. Margins show some scattered light soiling, but art remains clean and Exc.
Comes with a Fine copy of the large format 11x15" comic this art was created for. Signed inside cover "Destructively Yours...Scott." This cover art has never come to market before. Gary and Dawn Guzzo Collection.
From scottmccloud.com: "After Zot! finished its first ten issue run in late '85, I took a year and a half break (not entirely voluntary, since the book was losing money at the time) and, apart from moving office furniture, I also decided to do a giant-sized one-shot filled with nothing but pure senseless violence from beginning to end.
I got the idea when I first heard people complaining about a Marvel comic called SuperBoxers and claiming that it was "nothing but senseless violence from beginning to end." I thought this sounded cool, but was disappointed, upon acquiring a copy, to discover that SuperBoxers included a plot, characterization, and other distractions. It wasn't PURE. Destroy!! was my attempt to get it right.
Destroy!! was half-jokingly credited by Alan Moore with getting the Image-era `90s started early."
