IRON MAN / f. f. #82 homage' Variant RECREATION

My pal, Mike Jackson asked me to do a little more complicated project. Based on the brilliant Jack Kirby cover of Fantastic Four #82, I replaced the various characters that originally appeared with different versions of the Iron Man armor. This was also the first time I've taken a stab at the Ultimate & Granov versions of Shellhead.

IRON MAN #127 RECREATION

This recreation of the classic en masse' villain free-for-all was done for a fellow Floridian, Derek Muthart. I stuck fairly close to the original on this one and never once stopped to ask what "en masse' "meant.

iron man/armor wars double-page spread

I've been working on this ever since I did the "Alcohol storyline " spread for my pal, Daren Domina. I thought that a similar page, with a montage' of images from the 'other famous Iron Man storyline' might be something fun to do. (I'm obviously a glutton for punishment.) So-- I've worked on a few figure here-and-there each week until I finally finished the massive bugger. Altogether, I estimate that it took me 36 man hours to complete it. Translation: it was a major ball-buster. The original's size is 22"x 17".

Unpublished IRON MAN #200 Variant RECREATION

There's an interesting story behind my doing this recreation. I was the original penciller of the cover to Iron Man's 200th issue. However, they bumped my version, for reasons I can't recall.

IRON MAN #146 RECREATION

This was always a favorite cover of mine--probably because of it's compositional simplicity. It was also memorable for all the angry mail David and received for killing Vic Martinelli's dog 'Peanut' in this issue's story.

IRON MAN #128 RECREATION

Yep--I did another one. This time (I believe this one is actually the sixth recreation of that particular cover) it was for Lance Suarez--a very nice fellow and big time Iron Man fan.

2005 hulkbuster armor

A fan recently sent me an e-mail and asked if I had ever given thought to creating a B.L. version of the HULKBUSTER armor.

My response was that I felt that the regular armor has always been sufficient to 'bust up' the Hulk. (as evidenced in Iron Man #131-133.)

But--the notion motivated to me to give it a shot and here's what I came up with.

zoom suit #1 redone cover

This series is the brainchild of former Marvel Marketing Maven--John Taddeo. John has been nice enough to ask me to do a few covers for his new comic--some as homage's to my old Iron Man covers. This cover was a recent redo I did of the original--redrawing the Bane character closer to John's specs.

zoom suit #3 cover

However, this particular cover is an original composition. You can check out the upcoming Zoom Suit series and animated short feature by going to--

zoom suit #4 cover

Here's another cover I did recently for John Taddeo's Zoom Suit, based on the original layout of Iron Man #131.

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iron man #237 trade dress and logo

Robert Haines  wrote and asked if I would consider recreating the paste-ups for this cover (the Art no longer had any of the original trade dress on it.).  I had to recreate the figure in the corner box by hand, since I couldn't find a good b&w version of it.  I sent that corner box drawing along to Robert as a gift.