Unpublished Iron Man "Bad Blood" #3 Cover

This was originally planned to be the cover to the third installment of my “Bad Blood” mini-series. However, Bobbie Chase was not happy that I made Blacklash the central figure—because Joe Q had recently redesigned the character into some kind of S &M character. So,  I redrew the cover with Rhodey as the central figure and this piece went into limbo—until now.

unpublished cover to Iron Man #250 Anniversary issue

This was the original cover to the second Camelot/ Dr. Doom story. Barry Windsor Smith (who I was staying with at the time I was drawing this) convinced me to throw out this cover and do something more fanciful and Camelot-ie.  Ultimately, I did a homage on a famous illustration by Gustav Klempt (another pre-Raphaelite influence of BWS’s) for the final cover.

IRON MAN #132 COVER recreation

This is a recreated version of the original cover which was recently sold from Iron Man' writer David Michelinie's private collection. Before David sold the piece, I asked him to provide me with a full-sized copy of the original, so I could duplicate it line-for- line. This is probably the closest I ever gotten to perfectly duplicating an older work of mine.

Unpublished Iron Man #241 Splash Page

This page was finished from a page breakdown by Denys Cowan. If memory serves me correctly, the splash was bounced, due to the lack of an establishing shot of Downtown Hong Kong (which was expressly called for in the script). The actual published page wound-up being penciled and inked by me, since Denys was not available to do any redraws.

 IRON MAN VS. Justin hammer & the ghost

This piece was commissioned by a very nice young woman as a birthday present for a dear friend. However, since that birthday isn't until the first quarter of 2005, I'm forced to withhold any further information until the lucky boy receives her gift.

Happy B-Day in advance!

DEEP SEA ARMOR PIN-UP IRON MAN ANNUAL #10

This is another piece, penciled and inked by moi, from David Michelinie's private collection.

It was originally done as a pin-up to fill out that year's annual from a rejected cover rough for Iron Man #218. It's also a testament to what the passage of time does to our memories: David doesn't remember what it was originally for and I don't remember giving  it to him.  Imagine both our surprises...!

YET ANOTHER VERSION OF THE INFAMOUS "HALL OF IRON" POSTER With the original gray armor

I'm not going to do another one of these friggin', back-breaking pieces for a long, long time-!

star hunters #6 cover

This was the original series that brought the Michelinie/ Layton together for the first time as co-plotters. As you probably know, we moved on from this series and DC Comics to pick up the reins on Iron Man (and, as they say--the rest is history). This particular cover was penciled by Rich Buckler and inked by me. I'll always have a soft spot for this series...mostly because it was the beginning of a terrific thirty year collaboration and friendship.

IRON MAN #134 COVER recreation

I've always hated this cover. Granted, it was one of those covers that I was forced to do under an extreme deadline, so I didn't have time to construct it as well as I should have (I was still a fledgling artist at the time, remember?) I tried to fix some of that on this recreation--which was tough to do without changing the entire composition.

NEW FREEMIND COSTUME MODEL SHEET

This is a model page of the new Freemind uniform that was originally designed by Mike Leeke for Future Comics.  Since Mike had faxed his pencil design to me, we had nothing that was reproducible to use for licensing reference.  I sat down and redrew the page from Mike's concept...and this was the result.  After all, you can't very well hand a movie producer a second hand fax, now can you?

LEIF TVENSTRUP'S FOURTH BIRTHDAY CARD

: My daughter's oldest son has just turned four and he's figuring out what I do for a living. Leif is crazzzzy about two things: Dinosaurs and Spider-Man! So, this is what I came up with as a birthday card for him. And ...yes, I don't allow him to called me "Grandfather" (I'm still way too young to feel comfortable with that title.), so I came up with the Rap name, "Biggie G".

IRON MAN #126 COVER recreation

This is a piece that was done several months ago and I forgot to post it.

This was obviously meant to be a take-off on the Tales of Suspense #39 cover which featured the first appearance of Iron Man. The original #126 cover was penciled by John Romita Jr.

Even though it was an homage', it has consistently been one of the more popular covers that JRJR & I did on our first run of Iron Man.