The Gang’s All Here
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The Gang’s All Here
or: You Look Familiar
Got a request for a re-creation of the cover for Marvel Age #32. We went with a re-imagining instead. Partly because, pardon my modesty, I’m a better draftsman now than I was then and also to fill the space that was once taken up by the logo.
A friendly reminder as we observe the anniversary of the great beer belly putsch of 2020 that Hitler’s beer hall putsch of 1923 was not the end of the Nazi takeover, it’s where it got started. Our fathers and grandfathers, along with mothers and grandmothers, aunts and uncles and cousins and, well, just about everyone else, risked and sacrificed their lives to ensure America and the world would live free of fascist Trumpism. Let’s not throw that sacrifice away.
Happy Trails
Smitty
6 Comments so far
Marvel Age
Submitted by JRN (not verified) on Mon, 2024-01-08 10:18
Smitty,
I bought this book the other day. One of the local shops in KC has a fantastic array of back issues. They actually have a pretty good run of Marvel Age. It's so easy to find an image on the internet today, but back then we had to get Marvel Age to see behind the scenes art from books. I think the cover of Marvel Age number two would be a MUCH better cover of Alpha Flight #1, but I bet it got changed by the powers that be.
And I like this version more than the original.
Best to you and your Chiefs against the Fish this week.
My thumbs for X-Alpha covers were all rejected
Submitted by Smitty on Mon, 2024-01-08 16:59
Final layouts provided by John Romita Sr
Modern Masters: Paul Smith
Submitted by JRN (not verified) on Tue, 2024-01-09 02:02
Did Twomorrows ever try to do a Modern Masters book with you? I'd love to hear in depth interviews with you about all this lost history. Just think how crazy it was that so many punk kids (eventual masters) walked into Al Milgrom's office and got a Fanfare gig or something like that. I'd love to see an oral history of Marvel Fanfare AND hear the stories of motorcycle Smitty going cross country. Such a great piece.
Thumbnails
Submitted by Gerry (not verified) on Thu, 2024-01-11 08:50
Hey Smitty, do you have those thumbnails still ? Would be a great blog entry :)