Gallery Comments by Ted Latner

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Jordan Seymour

Wow -- that's definitely one of the best Williamson Star Wars strips out there and they're all pretty great!  Congrats!!

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robert frey

Very nice!  it's great that Byrne inked some of these himself. It's always great when you can re-unite pencils and inks!

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Bill Cox

Awesome Bill!  I always loved this page.  I know Dave Cockrum  really enjoyed drawing humorous moments like this, especially since X-Men was often such a serious book.

I had no idea there was an end page category.  I'll have to go back and update a bunch of my pieces now.

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Ted Latner

Thanks Dave.  He did a fantastic job on your commission too!

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Ted Latner

Thanks.  I think this was his first hero cover, but he also did a Superman cover in 2006 and a Batman pinup in 1993.  Definitely not a lot of Mark Schultz superhero art out there!

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Comicart Boston

Wow -- this is so great!  I've been a fan of Liam Sharp for years and he obviously has a real affinity for Conan!

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Christopher Daley

Very nice!  Lightle is one of my top 5 Legion artists and sorely missed!

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stephen yarish

Cool page and you don't see a "Groin" sound effect too often :)

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stephen yarish

Wow -- I really love this image!  I feel like Angel Medina hasn't gotten the accolades he deserves.  I really appreciate his Hulk art the more I revisit it!

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stephen yarish

Cool layout!  I appreciate Adam Kubert's Hulk run more and more every time I see one of these great pages!

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Steve Lawrence

I know it annoyed John Byrne that Dave Cockrum was still drawing X-Men covers well into his run, but wow this is a great example of why Marvel kept giving him the job.  I also liked it when Colossus was still a formidable character.  Great inking by Terry Austin too!  Congrats!

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stephen yarish

Very cool page!  I remember buying this when it came out and being a bit confused about the continuity.  Nice pickup!

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Rick W

Congrats -- I've been admiring this page for a while! I really love Sam Grainger's inks over Cockrum!

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Karim Elrafei

Fantastic DPS!  Gladiator is a very worthy foe for Thor!  I also really love Andy Kubert's artwork style from this time period. It looks current, but you can definitely see his father's influence.

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Myko Bato

Historic page!  Congrats!!

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Ted Latner

Thanks!  Congrats on your page too!

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Wow - if you were going to keep a page from the story, then this was the page to keep!  Beautiful work by you and Dave!

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Ted Latner

I found a blog posting from Jim Shooter where he talks about this and apparently it was a philisophical issue where the story was Platonic and Ditko's beliefs were Aristotelian:
https://jimshooter.com/2011/11/ditko-at-valiant-and-defiant-part-3.html/

Definitely a unique reason for leaving a comic book series!

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Steve Lawrence

Congrats Steve!  That's a great page from my favorite Cockrum X-Men issue.  As an added bonus it's the first reveal of Corsair's true identity.

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Dan F

Very memorable splash and I always loved Joe Staton's inking over Sal's pencils!  Congrats!!

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robert frey

Great page!  I remember being a bit disappointed when Cockrum left the X-Men the second time, but then thinking hey this Paul Smith guy is pretty good!

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Ted Latner

Thanks -- I'll add your scan to the Additional Images here for everyone to enjoy.

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Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy

Wow -- congrats!  Fantastic page and some peak Giffen/Mahlstedt art!

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Ted Latner

Very cool!  Thanks for posting the pencils!  You definitely kept the essence of Ditko's pencils while adding a lot of detail.

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Very nice!  I really loved Steve Geiger's art on the Hulk and was sorry he didn't end up doing more issues.

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Brian Koo

Wow!  Gruesome yet beautiful at the same time!  I'm always flabbergasted by the amount of detail Bernie put into these Frankenstein illustrations!

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Steve Lawrence

Beautiful page!  This was one of the issues that made me a lifetime Dave Cockrum fan from an early age!

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Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy

Great page!  I really enjoyed all of the classic guest artist appearances in this issue! 

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Miki Annamanthadoo

Congrats -- nice pickup!  To me this was the peak period for the Legion.  I like all eras of Giffen art, but this is my favorite, especially when he was being inked by Larry Mahlstedt!

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J. Lim

Great pickup!  Definitely one of Dave's better late-era pieces and Palmer did a great inking job! I've been admiring this piece for a while, but was too cheap to pick it up myself :)

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stephen yarish

Yeah and the art was extra large sized with no logos or text. I'll have to try and dig up an old scan as it doesn't seem to be up on CAF.  I owned it from 1999 to late 2004.

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stephen yarish

Great page!  We don't get to see enough Romita Sr. Hulk art!  One of my biggest collecting regrets is that I once owned the cover to this issue and foolishly sold it in the early 2000s.

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Michael Benham

Great sketch!  Definitely a legit Cockrum from the 80's.  

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Miki Annamanthadoo

Fun splash -- I've always enjoyed Pat Broderick's take on the Legion!  It's also good that Patterson inked this as Broderick's inking was generally in markers that have faded pretty badly over time.

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James S

Awesome!  I'm really impressed with all of the great Davis commissions from OAX!

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Paul Roach

Wow - beautiful page!  I love Janson's inking from this period!

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Benno Rothschild

Great splash!  This is Inhumans #5 page 1.  I'm guessing there's a slightly reduced size stat version out there with minor changes as the published version has some small differences around the edges (along with text and word balloons).

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Wow -- great page!  I really liked Ernie Chan's inking over Sal Buscema on these Hulk issues.

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Dave W

Great page and I really liked this Cap/Hulk crossover as a kid!  Just very sad news about Sal today :(

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dom masullo

Wow -- that's an INCREDIBLE Hulk page!!  I always liked Joe Staton's inking over Sal.

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George Hagenauer

Very cool!  That was published in Charlton Bullseye #1 in 1975. Interesting combination to have new artist John Byrne inking directly over Ditko's pencils from 1967 (intended for Captain Atom #90).  This was reprinted by DC in 2007 in The Action Heroes Archives #2.

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Very nice!  It's great you were able to identify the issue this came from. While I'm more of a Marvel guy, I do really love Dave's style from this era and it's too bad he didn't get to ink more of his own art at Marvel.

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T Dann

Nice Wolverine sketch!  I remember those 3-packs fondly and X-Men #104 was also one of the first comics I remember reading.

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Wow -- congrats on the great pickup!  I guess Sunfire was really serious since he hasn't shown up in X-Men comics too often since then. 

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Ted Latner

Ha - yeah thanks!  I guess Chaykin was definitely going for a space western theme here.

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F M

Thanks for sharing.  I've always loved Steve's art and can't believe he's been gone for 5 years now.

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Amazing piece of art!  Glad I got to see it in person recently!

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Great page - especially the dramatic bottom right panel!  Is there White-Out on Stan's face in panel 2?  That looks like Marie Severin's work to me as opposed to Dave C.

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Very cool!  I'm guessing Dave drew this for a fanzine shortly before going pro, but no idea if it was published or not.

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Great Corrigan strip!  I love the Zip-A-Tone and shading!