Squadron Supreme #3 - Story Page 22 Original Art

Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme was the moral conscience of mid-eighties Marvel - a story that asked what happens when heroes choose control over freedom and paid the full human cost of that answer. This page from "Showdown" carries one of the series' most quietly devastating beats: Spectrum failing to revive Nuke, and the weight of that failure etched across the faces of his teammates. Bob Hall and John Beatty rendered Gruenwald's vision with the clean, grounded line work the story demanded. Squadron Supreme was a precursor to Watchmen in ambition if not in style, and this page embodies why. A genuine piece of comics history.