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Freedom's Stronghold Trophy Room

Artists: Brendon Fraim (Penciller) , Brian Fraim (Inker)

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Freedom's Stronghold Trophy Room Comic Art

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Title:	Freedom's Stronghold Trophy Room
Artist:	Brendon Fraim (Penciller)
Artist:	Brian Fraim (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,871
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	2/12/2012
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Description

Cosmic Crossover (Sep, 1980)
Bonus Pin-Up of the Trophy Room of the Freedom Brigade and the Sentinels

From this great super-sized issue, this nifty pin-up shows the Trophy Room in Freedom's Stronghold and some of the mementos picked up by both groups over the years. It's played host to a few crossover specials as well.

Sharp-eyed readers will note the "Heroes Of Other Earths", which shows, in shadow at least, the backs of various heroes from other comic book companies - always a tricky thing to work around whenever the Room appears in a comic.

Most of the labels and objects are pretty self-explanatory. Some of note include:

The Sentinels Mural, showing the founding members of the group;

Mr. Amazing, of course, being the non-superpowered hero who sacrificed his life to stop the destruction of the Empire State Building in 1943;

The "Secret" Library, which includes copies of the Necronomicon, the translated Voynitch Manuscript, the actual original documents comprising the novel Dracula, various works by Pierre Menard, Dreadhelm's copy of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, plans and documents captured from supervillains, and even works from other Earths; and

Micro-City, which allows one to be converted to electrical impulses and "beam down" into the circuit-board like world with its own inhabitants (First Appearance: The now classic, The Sentinels #11 (Jan, 1963)).

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Well, it could have been a real pin-up. This was an idea I had to develop the verisimilitude of a "Standard Comics" publishing history and harkens back to cutaway views of superhero headquarters (not ready for doing all of Freedom's Stronghold just yet) by DC and Marvel, and a bit of a precursor to the Marvel Handbook and DC's Who's Who series.

The Brothers Fraim did a bang-up job here based on my random notes, adding their own stuff into the mix. I think it's a really fun piece, hope you do as well. Turnaround time, about a week!! You should definitely hit them up for your own commission.

Plus, it can be implied that it continues off the page towards the viewer (Part II?). Some of the artifacts can be found on the PDSH wiki, if you want to look them up ;-)

I think by now, TNT Todd (in the nifty mural above the arch) has appeared in more of my commissions than he ever did in comics - yay for comic nerds with "disposable" income! All those years of not being a drug abuser, gambler, or alcoholic are really paying off!

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Kevin Moorhead
Member Since 2008

Posted on 2/12/2012

See, now -that-, -that's- an awesome idea.

Brendon and Brian Fraim
Member Since 2008

Posted on 2/16/2012

We were really happy with how this turned out, too. Thanks for posting this, Roy!

allen trembone
Member Since 2012

Posted on 9/10/2013

Brendon and Brian Fraim wrote:

We were really happy with how this turned out, too. Thanks for posting this, Roy!

yeah,this is the best one yet.

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