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Marvel house ad for Doctor Strange promoting what would have been an amazing creative team-up between Roger Stern and Frank Miller that unfortunately never came to pass (1981)

Remastered image courtesy of @bringbackwendellvaughn from Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange Vol. 9 (2019)

Frank’s original art for this HouseAd.

Cable by John Romita, Jr. and Tom Smith from the frontispiece for the Cable Classic Vol. 1 TPB (2008) 

Here is John’s original artwork for this piece:

It was originally published as inside of Cable: Blood and Metal # 1. It was kinda weird. A gatefold vertical poster, printed horizontally on the inside covers -front and back- of the first issue.

They colored it and published it as a poster too.

Gotta love that JRJR being asked to do his version of the Rob Liefeld and style works better than Rob Liefeld could manage on his best day. “Cable: Blood and Metal” came out shortly after Liefeld jumped ship and went to Image. It was published because Marvel wanted to maintain the sales successes of Liefeld’s X-Force book. Marvel rushed out Cable: Blood and Metal right after Liefeld’s departure was announced. It was planned as a 4 issue Liefeld mini. It was published as a 2 oversized issue JRJR book. And it looks so freaking bonkers that it’s awesome. Nutty, nutty book.

JRJR was asked to pump out a 4 issue mini in a pinch. It wound up as an artistic hallmark for Johnny. The mental image of Cable with the ridiculously large guns and pouches kind of originated with this mini. It’s dumb, but a lot of fun.

JRJR dumbing himself down and upping the ante on the ridiculous pouches to copy the “Liefeld style” was actually more artistically sound than anything Rob ever did.

Cable by John Romita, Jr. and Tom Smith from the frontispiece for the Cable Classic Vol. 1 TPB (2008) 

Here is John’s original artwork for this piece: