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Matt Hawes
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Found this online, from Paul Kupperberg's blogsite:


Barbarian drawing by John Byrne and E.E. Duffy Vohland.


Is that drawing in the gallery on the site? I didn't see it there.
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Ahhh, Duffy. It used to be a standing joke, even with Duffy himself, that having him pushing for me kept me out of the business for years!
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I see a big John Buscema influence there.
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A memory just came bubbling up in my brain. How many of you also recall this FOOM cover, a remarkable representation of the old Marvel offices by the unmatched Marie Severin? That's Duffy listening at the keyhole at lower right.

I'm not there, so save you're eyes! The folk appearing either worked in or regularly visited the office. In those days, I met neither criteria. (If I had appeared, Marie's delightful sense of humor would most likely have had me dressed like an Eskimo and leaving a trail of snow behind me.)

A whole flood of memories come with looking at that drawing. It was in that office where he is shown at his drawing board that John Romita showed me how to draw the webbing on Spider-Man's costume. (That's Virginia Romita being stolen out the window by the ol' wall crawler.)

The bullpen, at upper left, is where I spent a lot of my days when visiting NYC. That's Roger Stern at his desk also at upper left. Roger would eventually be moved across the hall into his own "office," and that's where I drew my one and only issue of IRON MAN.

Those interested in seeing the entire drawing (it filled the front and back cover), go HERE and scroll down a bit.

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Marie Severin, such a fun artist! She seems like she would be a sweet person, too.
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Wow. You actually drew the whole is in the office?
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I couldn't remember if this was posted in the Forum before. Cool pic!
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I dig that Batman cutout in the background. I wonder who
drew it?

Fun to see Paul describe in detail is old hangouts in
northern Canarsie, Brooklyn, as I was born right around that
time and lived in the same neighborhood.
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That Batman cut-out... I want to say the pencils were Carmine Infantino. The inks are almost certainly Murphy Anderson.

Edited to note:

Yep... found it! It was originally a pin-up:

Batman and Robin pin-up.



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I know that image from the underside of my old Corgi Batmobile.

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Love that Marie Severin Marvel Offices plan-shot.

Such fun. I had never seen it before, so thanks for sharing that.

"I'm not there, so save you're eyes!"-JB

Can I at least pretend that you are the guy watching Marie painting the number on the floor? 
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With that hat!?!
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