Christmas Card 2019: An Avengers Holiday by Chris ivy

So let's start this post off a bit differently by first saying Thank you to the Marvel Two-In-One Guy for his technical assistance.

That said here is this year's Christmas card, it went through three iterations before coming to the final product.

The first proposal was discussed in early Summer featuring some Marvel characters, the artist was enthusiastic and said he would get back to me...he never did.

At that point I decided to take advantage of an artist's ebay commission offering thinking if the original concept came through belatedly, I'd be one year ahead of the game and we would do something Justice Society oriented as we have in year's past..

False starts, false promises and false delivery dates had me looking for a new artist and refund come late fall.

My intent was always to have Chris Ivy color this year's card, we tend to alternate between Chris and Glenn Whitmore for the coloring, when Chris learned of my dilemma he volunteered to do the entire card.

So now we moved onto option three, we scrubbed the JSA idea, held off on the original Marvel character concept and instead chose to reinterpret a lovely Marvel Christmas pin-up from the Bronze Age.

Notable changes were a revival of Giant-Man's Uniform from the little seen Tales to Astonish 65-69 uniform, the elimination of the Silver Surfer and the addition of Iron Man.

As in year's past Chris did an outstanding job, in fact one card he created for me ended up as an Alter Ego cover.