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This is a cool pinup,but I don't have any records that it was published in Mighty World of Marvel or any other British book. Perhaps repurposed for SSOC or never published?
Hmm...and I always thought Artie Rosen was just a pseudonym for Rick Veitch, and just part of an elaborate marketing hoax back in 1999. LoL.
Inker is Mike Esposito ("ME"), not Dave Hunt, on this one.
Regarding the consignor, these early Elemental pages came from the estate of Chrsitine Farrell, who died earlier this year. She was a former comic shop owner in Burlington, who was renowned for owning a complete collection of all DC comics. Lots of info about her on the Internet.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-10-31/vermonters-legendary-comic-collection-rakes-in-more-than-5-million-at-auction-christine-farrell-dc-comics
I always thought Andersen's (with McLeod inks) art on that short Angel story in MTE 27 was one of the better drawn Angel stories of the day (or maybe the oversized Treasury Edition pages helped!).
A strong collection gets stronger!
Loved this issue as a kid! Jim told me he did full pencils on this story, though the credits have him doing layouts only. I suspect the last 8 pages or so were penciled by Bob Budiansky. Jim also told me the artwork from this story was never returned to him because he didn't leave a forwarding address with Marvel after Shooter fired him.
Funny that people call him a "new" artist when this is his 20th year as a professional, but yes, he's been doing great work for Marvel since the Invaders series a few years ago. His Planet of the Apes material was pretty good too.
Anton Shea Pensa??? What’s next? Larry Stroman, Jack Slamm, Neil Hansen, Todd Smith, Tom Morgan, Paul Guinan, and Hoang Nguyen?? Congrats bud!
It has bounced around a bit since originally sold. Believe it is currently with a dealer now.
I have it ffrom good authority that Cap-n Quick's character was based on Marshall's younger sister.
Probably part of the reason it was nixed by Marvel, though there were plenty of other dark themes in that series.
Quirky personality and Comicsgate not withstanding, this is the most intersting Shane Davis story I've seen in recent years:
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/shane-davis-of-dc-comics-on-his-fight-to-get-his-artwork-back/
I know Jerry Bingham is the credited penciler (and he once told me one of his earliest assignments was a Captain Marvel inventory story), but odd that Pat Broderick's name is written along the top of this page.
I'll take a "break up" page over a "birth" page, any day. :) Great nostalgic page for me!
The story was actually supposed to take place on the original Nova Prime spaceship.
There's another page from this story here on CAF:
Knowing this comment will be dated soon enough, Rob has recently been doing variant covers for Dynamite (Red Sonja and Tarzan), and will be the penciler for the upcoming (2023) Conan series for Titan Comics.
Craig only drew the last issue of this series (#4), but he did draw to cover to issue #3 and re-drew some of Leo Summers art in that issue, since it was deemed too violent. I don't think any other Atlas series made it past 4 issues though. A fascinating piece of comics history.
Thanks Lee! Probably as close as I'm ever going to get to a Volume 1 Nova page with the current market. :)
Oh no, not a reignition of yet another CGC forum debate! :)
Original layouts to this piece were by John Romita Jr.
As far as I know, this is the only art from my gallery to ever make an appearance on Bill's CAF Update show. :)
They packed a whole lot of story into these eight pages. Probably enough for a12-issue maxi series today! :)
Dr Strange 68 is my all time favorite artistic representation of the Black Knight. Great work by Smith!
Pencils are by Steve Stiles (and Steve told me the human prisoner on the bottom right side is himself). Inks by John Tartaglione (initials JT on top margin).
DC horror and war anthology books did seem like a venue for new artist tryout work around this time, as well as inventory material. Nasser was already well established by 1980 (and had already temporarily left the industry for his "walkabout"), so curious when he drew it.
Really nice to see this!
This is Jae Lee's first Marvel artwork at the tender age of 18, filling in some pages for Rob Lefield, before taking over the art on the serial.
It's an honor sir. :)
And if anyone ever says Falco was just a one-hit wonder, we can always mention "Der Kommissar" . LOL.
This was actually published as a pinup in Planet of the Apes #89 (Marvel UK), which picked up Dracula stories after Dracula Lives was cancelled. Congrats!
Thanks Marcus. CAF would be a lonely island for some of us without you. :)
I recently read from an interview with Joe Staton, who was Gil Kane's assistant for a time, that actually ghosted the layouts for this issue for Kane. He also did this for a few Spider-Man issues (e.g. 150) and a Conan story.
I recently read an interview that said Joe Staon, who was Gil Kane's assistant for a time, actually ghosted for Kane on this issue. Along with a few Spider-Man (e.g. 150) and a Conan story. Interesting to think about.
And I was actually present at Jim's house to see this art trade. It was a thing of beauty watching two heavyweights of the hobby work out the details. :)
Jim worked as Michael Ploog's assistant prior to getting work at Marvel (doing background on his Planet of the Apes magazine artwork), so I tend to see his influence on work like this.
Hey Lee. Sure, I can get some more pages up for you in the coming weeks.
LOL. And just imagine the imagery if I had posted it with the French text overlay!
Cool pieice. But how do you know that production note is to Jim Salicrup? ;)
Thanks Rob! It's relatively difficult to find Magno pencils and inks on the same board for his post-2010 work. Most of his BOOM work was digitally inked, while his current work for Marvel is penciled, then scanned and printed in blue-line, where he then does his inking.
Thanks for the comment buddy. Well, you know it rarely turns out well for Kong, ever since he was introduced almost 90 years ago.
Congrats on this one! Saw this sitting on EBay for awhile with a relatively low BIN. Wonder who the copy editor was on these “Feary Tales,” since many of them have obvious spelling mistakes? ;)
Hi Joe,
No, this is the only page from the story Suzanne has, so don’t know anything else about it.
Someone was going to buy it awhile ago, but never paid, so thought I’d make it available again.
Best,
Jason
Jim started his career as Michael Ploog's assistant, and IMO, his early work has some similarities.
