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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 24 November 2025 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | 1
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I came across this on Facebook over the weekend. Always satisying to come across JB art for st the first time after all these years!
Given the other artists included (especially Miller/Janson clearly in their DARK NIGHT phase), I'd place this around 1986. Honestly if it weren't for the signature and other vintage of the other pieces, I would have mistaken JB's piece as very early Walt Simonson - those crazy slick curved lines were his trademark back then.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 24 November 2025 at 2:06pm
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John Byrne
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No memory of this.
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Brian Miller
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I don’t recognize the characters or the upper right signature.
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 24 November 2025 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | 4
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And JB’s signature is all wrong for ‘86. I’d say late 70s for that one.
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Joe Murray
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Very cool, love seeing stuff like this surface!
Late ‘70s might preclude Truman & Adams, and the “6” in the corner might literally agree with the 1986 timeline. I also don’t know the character, but wonder why Truman went with a more Zorro cordovan than the bowlers—all very interesting!
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Michael Roberts
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I don’t recognize the characters or the upper right signature.
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It looks like Phil Foglio.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 25 November 2025 at 11:37am | IP Logged | 7
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Honestly, doesn’t look like my work—or any of the others named.
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Darren Taylor
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They all look like they are using the same, or nearly the same pen for the linework.
Could this be someone playing at copying these artist's 'styles'.
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Vinny Valenti
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Y'know, I didn't consider that it may be false, but I should have. Like Brian said, the signature looks off. Plus, the only part of it that I would have identified was JB was that bit of shading on the collar. That's not a John Byrne Eye, either.
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Edward Aycock
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Ok, I feel better because I didn't recognize the character either. Looks like a Scott Shaw! creation.
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