Tom Grummett - Doug Hazlewood - Fantastic Four # 4 Commission (Inked) - Thing with Small-Yield Nuclear Bomb

Update: Doug Hazlewood has adding his amazing inks to this drawing. I had a superb commission experience with Doug and highly recommend him to other collectors. Contact Doug via his gallery right here on CAF!

Previously...

The origin story of Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner was first told by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky in Fantastic Four # 4 (1962). In that book, Namor summons a giant monster called Giganto (II) to wreak havoc on us insolent surface dwellers. There is a great sequence where the ever-lovin' Thing straps a "small-yield" nuclear device to his back and packs it down into Giganto. I wanted to re-visit this scene because it shows off two of the Thing's best qualities: strength and sacrifice.

Art by Tom Grummett. Scan in the middle courtesy of Tom's rep Byron H. My thanks to both gentlemen for making this happen.