Posted: 12 July 2018 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | 2
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This is still a pretty great picture! But I think you're expectations may have gotten the better of you?
I don't know the provenance of the original art; given that there is no date it could be a week, a year, or a decade old.
It could've been anything from a con sketch or art for the the side of a video cassette box; we don't know if it was ever meant to be used for a cover. Marvel has done this with JB pinups and panels, as well as with Jim Lee's X-Men cards from the early '90s.
Romita and Austin together is a novel combination as well, and I can definitely see Terry Austin's inks on this one!
My uneducated guess from looking at it is that it was meant to be a small image, based on the relative size of Shocker's eyes, the, um, "open-ness" of Black Cat's hair, and Venom's teeth. When I opened the image in another window and shrank it, it looked like typically great Romita, and was clear even very small.
The coloring did it no favors, either.
Even if it is new, 88 year old Romita draws a better Spider-Man than the gentleman who drew the interiors, and I'd pay for a new Spider-Man comic from him.
Edited by Phil Southern on 12 July 2018 at 12:41pm
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