Byrne really was good.

(When I started reading "After being presumed dead for 5 years," I thought you were talking about John Byrne.)

Although I don’t have Peter's encyclopedic knowledge of WWII, I have read a lot. I visited the Normandy Beaches twice and Bastogne twice, including for the 60th anniversary memorial ceremony of the “Battle of the Bulge” in 2004 (which Tom Hanks also attended).

I visited the Normandy Beaches about a month before “Saving Private Ryan” was released. After returning from a business trip that Friday, I went straight from the airport to the film's final showing at a local theatre (I did that for Batman vs. Superman too). I could not believe what I had just seen. I could not sleep, so I  read about D-Day all night, then attended the first showing the following day. The opening scene was far more difficult to watch after having read all night.

I don’t think I have seen the movie since.

Mic drop!

Freakin' intense!

Stellar page from a very memorable issue! (That punch should have ended Gizmo.)

Really beautiful. Love the fine pencil work on her hair. 

Stunner, Dave. Nice.

Beautiful. I see a little Lauren Bacall. 

Kaluta is like pizza. It's always good.

Priceless. 

You had Bolland art since 2010 and you are just posting it now!?!?

Wonderful, Steve! What a great piece! Proving once again nothing beats meeting the artsits in person!

She's beautiful!

Very nice! Glad to see you expanding the JSA side of your collection!

Wow, look at Cap's jawline...almost Liefeld-like!!

Magnificent! Scan it and blow it up on a canvas to cover a whole wall!!

I would love to have one of those. 

Someday, someone is going to have to splain me how that shield defies physics like that.

Only 64!? Never thoought of it like that. Thanks.

Thanks! Coming from a man with some Giffen / Mahlstedt jaw-droppers, I appreciate that.

Matt, You have surrounded yourself with so much Death of late. Are you OK?

Beautiful. While not rendered here as voluptuous as she was on Marvel Fanfare #10, she looks equally as menacing. 

Iconic! Don't ever let this go again.

Please post the sale price. 

Masterful! Jose pencils and inks are the best.
(Thanks for putting this the year in the post, too!)

Panel 6!!

How did THAT get through editorial!?!?

Dagon has a tongue like Jenny Armstrong from my sophomore geometry class. 

Beautiful! You are becomming a renaissance man.

Did you ask what kind of dinosaur this was?

Action-packed! Love the zip-a-tone!

He has the same otherworldly, tiny head, giant body anatomy as my Jim Starlin Mongul.

If one is going to rewrite an origin story, you better make it count.

And boy, did Johns nail this . . . taking one of the most beloved origin stories and making it mean so much more than a lazy retcon.

Observe a young William Hand in the lower left of page 6. After Atrocitus looses his battle here with Sinestro and rookie Hal Jordan, Billy walks away with the Atrocities maguffin that sucks Latern power, setting the stage for him becoming Black Hand and eventual leader of the Black Lantern Corps. 

Thanks for reading it!

Kind of has a Brian Bolland creepiness to it.

"Mortal fool! 

I love the dialogue.