A Sense of Doubt blog post #3421 - Comic Book Sunday 2406.30

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3421 - Comic Book Sunday 2406.30

Just a big share today.

School starts tomorrow and so I fell behind and am posting this one two days late.

No real theme, but definitely a focus on the X-Men.

Thanks for tuning in.


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#112: This Marvel Comic Could Be Worth $2500 To You! (Details Inside)

TOM BREVOORT MAY 19

Behind the Curtain

Man, I love it when stuff like this turns up. It’s a little lost piece of Marvel history.

.An original art collector posted this board a week or two back and set off a whirlwind of activity among knowledgeable fans attempting to determine whether it was real or just an elaborate fake. But Jim Salicrup, who was the editor of UNCANNY X-MEN at this time, confirmed that it was genuine. What you’re looking at here is an alternate cover set-up to the classic final chapter of "The Dark Phoenix Saga” as it might have appeared on comic book racks back in 1980 had things gone down a little bit differently. Jim revealed that nobody in Marvel editorial had been made aware of that massive banner that was going to need to be run at the top, and so in order to make sufficient room for it, he had the artwork reduced and extended on the left side. He wrote all of this cover copy, which was lettered by the great Gaspar Saladino. This would have been for the initial version of the book, the one in which Jean Grey didn’t perish at the end.

But of course, EIC Jim Shooter became aware of the storyline and demanded changes to its ending, and so Jean Grey met her maker. As a part of this, Jim Salicrup was replaced as the books editor by Louise Simonson, and either Louise or Jim had the cover set-up reworked into its final published form, which kept the artwork at the size it had been drawn. This original version of the cover hasn’t seen the light of day in over 40 years.

Here, you can pretty clearly see the L-shape where the artwork had to be extended on the left side, presumably by John Romita and his Romita’s Raiders.

The comics code not being on the final printed issue was just a mistake. It was overlooked in the new paste-up, apparently.

ART AND COVER GALLERY

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