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Marvel Comics Presents #81 (Marvel, 1991)

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Location: 7436 Signature Comic Art Auction September 12 - 14 2025
Title: Marvel Comics Presents #81 (Marvel, 1991)
Artist:  Barry Windsor-Smith (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Splash Page
For Sale Status: Auction (2025 Sep 12-14)
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Added to Site: 8/25/2025

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"This is a massacre!" Chapter Nine opens with the most powerful image from the "Weapon X" storyline... Weapon X standing on a pile of bodies as soldiers continue to fall around him. The feral mutant lashes out after escaping confinement in the research facility where the clawed Canadian was experimented on, resulting in his skeleton being laced with the unbreakable metal. The origins of Wolverine's Adamantium skeleton are finally being revealed, and it's not a pretty picture.
Windsor-Smith captures the chaos of the scene in heart-stopping detail, a callback to the iconic John Buscema cover of Wolverine #1, which showed Logan in a similar situation. But Windsor-Smith doesn't hold back... illustrating the carnage in progress through a pulse-pounding splash page of blood and fury, as Weapon X tests his newly minted claws on the people seeking to take down the deadly berserker. This image was so impactful, Marvel featured the gruesome scene on the covers of the collected editions Weapon X (1993) and Wolverine: Weapon X [Premiere Edition] (2007).

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Pellucidar Mikishawn Member Since 2008
Posted On 9/13/2025

lucky new owner