This piece began life as the back cover for CHARLTON BULLSEYE 1, a fanzine produced by Roger Stern and Bob Layton. Once it had performed its intended function, Neal instructed that it be passed on to me.

Funny thing was, when I first saw it I thought This is pretty poor Neal. Then I realized, No, this is pretty amazing ME!

Neal, drawing characters I had designed, emulated my style--and made it SO MUCH BETTER!!!!

(Upon seeing this piece, Chris Claremont immediately wanted to come up with a story to go with it. Chris, btw, had a habit of referring to the comic in which these characters appeared as DOOMSDAY+4.)

Years later, with a wider access to visual data, I realized I had been pretty close!

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* Most notably Charlton Heston’s THE WAR LORD and Hammer’s THE VIKING QUEEN.