RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Comics hero portraits

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A Michael Golden MICRONAUTS cover.
It looks like a cover, but I can't place where it was used. It's way too nice to not have appeared somewhere.

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Rog 2000, hanging out with some other Byrne-illustrated robots.

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And Byrne's playful cover for THE ART OF JOHN BYRNE.

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A modified version of Byrne's anniversary-issue cover for 236.
https://viewcomiconline.com/fantastic-four-1961-issue-236/

I love Stan Lee pictured in the background as part of the celebration.
Somehow Jack Kirby wasn't invited, despite being FF's co-creator.

In a poster Byrne did a year or so later (first as a black and white centerfold in the 1982 FANTASTIC FOUR CHRONICLES, then 2 years later released as this Marvel poster in color), Kirby is , if not visible, still given the co-credit he is due.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...QQ/6kndMaUpl_o/s1600/ffpostercolor-1.jpg

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A pin-up portrait in the exact flavor I had in mind when starting this topic, from FANTASTIC FOUR 250.
https://viewcomiconline.com/fantastic-four-1961-issue-250/



And just a year or so later...



...this similar pin-up page, made from a Byrne cover for COMICS FEATURE 27,(Feb 1984), introducing new FF costumes, in this version made into a convention pin-up page.

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Some Byrne portraiture of his Alpha Flight characters.

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Michael Golden pin-up of the Defenders, from 1980.

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An X-Men portrait by Byrne, as painted and airbrushed by Fastner/Larson, in 1980.
From the X-Men Portfolio.
https://www.popculturesafari.com/2016/10/comic-art-marvel-comics-portfolio-art.html?spref=pi

https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/22658677986.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/1f/48/83/1f48831e368d0441ac02b5dcd780eb8d.jpg

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Cover for MARVEL SUPER HEROES 6, July 1991, by Arthur Adams.

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I don't feel like tracking them down right now, but I recall these pin-up pages appearing in the Kirby FF annuals.




This first pin-up looks like the FF figures from the opening splash page of FF 78, Sept 1968, only with just the FF figures, and the background removed, with a new background and text added in.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961/Issue-78?id=27174






The original page for this second one was recenttly listed on Ebay, as a "1963 Marvelmania pin-up"

So if accurate, not printed in a Marvel comic, a pin-up page mailed out exclusively to Marvel fan club members.

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Circa 1969, here's a signed Barry Windsor-Smith Medusa pin-up page.

No idea where it saw print.

There's a lot of "A Marvel Masterwork Pin-up" pages that don't look at all familiar to me. That possibly ran in a Marvel reprint title like COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS or MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS, or possibly were only available from Marvel to fans who wrote in, exclusives sent out in packages to Marvel fan club subscribers.

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This one also looks like a Marvel comics fandom page.
I like the personalized signed-photo-from-Iron Man effect.
I'm guessing Kirby/Heck art.