{"id":12342,"date":"2014-01-09T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2014-01-09T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:40:07","slug":"looking-back-at-the-back-of-a-page-of-original-captain-marvel-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/09\/looking-back-at-the-back-of-a-page-of-original-captain-marvel-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at the back of a page of original Captain Marvel art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because my seven-issue run on Captain Marvel<\/em> will soon be reprinted as part of a Marvel Masterworks edition<\/a>, I pulled out the original art I’d received for having written those issues. I don’t recall the full details of what share of the finished art the penciller and inker received, but I ended up with two pages per book. And sometimes the backs of those pages are as interesting as the fronts.<\/p>\n

On the flip side of page 10 from issue #49—the first issue I wrote—is a rough pencil sketch of the villain The Cheetah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"CaptainMarvelBackSketch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I assume the sketch is by Al Milgrom, the penciller for that issue. Here’s what the character looks like inked and in color, as seen from his introduction on the cover of Captain Marvel<\/em> #48, which is the previous issue.<\/p>\n

\"CaptainMarvel48CoverDetail\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The supervillain only appeared in a few panels of Captain Marvel<\/em> #49, and not in any pose similar to the above sketch.<\/p>\n

I don’t know why Al (if indeed it was Al) roughed out that sketch, but comic book artists used to do this kind of thing all the time, either to loosen up before drawing the actual assignment, or to test out a pose, or create a costume reference, or simply to doodle. (John Buscema’s back-of-the-page sketches were amazing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I’m surprised there isn’t already a site out there collecting all known examples of this. Since I can’t find any such site by Googling, if you happen to spot one, point it out to me, OK?<\/p>\n

And if you don’t<\/em> spot one—why not start one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because my seven-issue run on Captain Marvel will soon be reprinted as part of a Marvel Masterworks edition, I pulled out the original art I’d received for having written those issues. I don’t recall the full details of what share of the finished art the penciller and inker received, but I ended up with two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,248,18,20],"class_list":["post-12342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-milgrom","tag-captain-marvel","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12359,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}