Comic Book Royalty,

I wish I was cool enough to use 'owlhoot' in a sentence and get away with it.  Sadly...

Best commission of the character I've seen!

Ya put it in yer ear, not your mouth, ya bastich!

Can't feel anything through all that armor.

Was the whole bottom half of the page blank?

Daddy likey.

Please keep me in mind should you ever decide to sell!  Love 'Demon Knight, have no pages from the GN.

I do not necessarily condone what occurs in the panels of my collection.  If I did, disembodied hands strangling people would be all the rage in my house.

Beans are a helluva drug.

A nice way of noting it's a 'people-standing-around-talking' page.  ;)

LOTS of those with this particular series.

You want to have an action figure of HYBRID? ®

Ew.  You MONSTER!

Now, THERE'S a comic adaption we'd all love to see!

Great page from an underrated (but inevitable, in retrospect, given the creative teams of both books) crossover issue.

Ya got me, John; I'm stumped.  Congratulations!

'Exogorth' ?  C'mon, man!  I'm pushing 60!  Too lazy to even look it up.

You aren't missing anything by not having the 'overlay' in this situation.  Whenever the art for an overlay effect is drawn on the principal page (and then covered over) that means the overlay would have simply been a photocopy of the overlay art portion from the main page, pasted on an otherwise blank page.  Long since discarded.

A tremendous example of Golden's 'vintage' style!  Congrats!

...also, probably the FINAL published page/image of IDW's version of MICRONAUTS.

...published in a backup story in a TRANSFORMERS comic?  No wonder no-one knew where it was from!  

Was this one of those books where the entire story was half-pages (and the publisher tried to pay a half-page rate)?

Sold!

Sold.

Golden's signature tucked away discreetly.

1970's Rann could easily be - Lee Majors!  ... Baron Karza removing his helmet - Max von Sydow!

"What, whittle bitty meee?"  >blinks innocently<

Howard genrally declines to do Star Wars commissions these days.  Perhaps he was a little more relaxed a decade ago.  Glad you and Tom were able to get him to participate!  The end result is stunning, if you're going to commission a 'recreation' why not make it -just- as unique as the original?

I like to think I -took it easy- with the blue.  ;-)

https://micronauts.fandom.com/wiki/Bug_(comics)

But you're not the only one to comment.

(Well done in keeping a visual record of the stages of completion.  Nice planning, nice execution.  Now, do the same for... say... the cover for Micronauts #11...?)

I'm Andrew Allen, and I approve this commission.

As Marcus obliquely noted above, works just fine dialog-free.  A Master Storyteller at work.

This must be the storyline referenced by the immortal AVENGERS ANNUAL 10 by Claremont and Golden?

The 'ROM vs Hybrid vs X-Men' storyline was responsible for four of the most epic splash pages in the whole run of the book.  Congrats!

I KNEW this would be a grail for Steve.

Impressive.  Reminds me of Flint Henry when he was doing GRIMJACK for First.

Perhaps one of Golden's biggest strengths is his masterful understanding of the use of -space- in his storytelling.  Look at this cover.  Fully a THIRD of the cover is literally empty space - but that empty space is arguably the most important part of the composition.  That empty space tells the story, full of loss and pathos, perfect for the 'Nam.

A masterpiece cover, far ahead of its time.

Ant-Man?  Yup!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1676780

I've speculated that the reason behind UK-Weekly exclusive stories was much simpler - a typical US issue was divided into thirds when published in the UK, which left a week every month with content to fill.  A few 'inventory' stories were developed to fill the extra schedule.

Jealous.  While I concede I have some MICRONAUTS, I would love a page from AVENGERS ANNUAL 10, DR STRANGE 55, or STAR WARS 38.  Out of reach now.

Comic book royalty.  A jewel in the crown.

Since there was some delay in getting Season 19 screened in the US in 1982, (the only outlet at the time was Public Broadcasting - PBS stations) for millions of fans, this panel was likely the first introduction to Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor, in any storied format.

I know it was for me!  Nostalgic page!

...and now, after all this time, this piece is FINALLY going to be published by MARVEL as a COVER to the 2024 MICRONAUTS Omnibus, Vol 3.  Huge congrats!  (Bet the previous owners are kicking themselves about now...! )

Amazing piece of Star Wars comics history!

It was published in the 'Giant-Sized Super-Special' edition as 'page 14'.  I'm too lazy to pull out my copies of the individual comics to see what appeared in the comic-sized edition.

Most of the pages from the first issue are these piecemeal things, which make one worry that the chopped-up images are stats.  I own one, and couldn't tell one way or the other, either by looking for brushstrokes, pencil stains, or even looking under a UV light.  But, doubtless, the published page, at least!

Marvel very much Did Their Own Thing with the property, but, like its stablemate 'STAR WARS' still feels very much coming from the same series bible.  Worth putting together a set, should be inexpensive, and fun to see how they dovetailed the ending with 'GALACTICA 1980' a bit.

Comic Art Royalty.

Guice inking Guice is always special; he took his time with pages from the GN, and it shows.

Keep in mind that, according to the production schedule used at the time, letterers typically finished their part on a page -before- going to the inker.  So, -at the time- that notation was probably written on a not-yet-inked page.

I suspect that it might have been going back to Golden for him to put the finishing touches on the 'reverse stat' of the Worldmind.  The actual details are clipped off the bottom.

Archie Goodwin cameo in the central panel?

One of these days, I'll get a comment from you which will just say 'Wow!'

...but not today.

Honker!