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Peter Hicks
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“ I remember well those covers at Charlton. I distinctly remember the one with the sailer spearing the eye of some giant creature. I wonder if any of these cover survived the passage of time? ”**************** I cannot speak to Space:1999 covers, but if you are ever in Hamilton, Ontario, stop by Big B Comics. They have a collection of original painted artworks on the walls used for Charlton romance covers.
Edited by Peter Hicks on 26 March 2025 at 9:39pm
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Wallace Sellars
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I believe that a coverless POWER MAN #48 (possibly missing a couple of pages) was the first John Byrne comic I ever owned.
X-MEN #121 was the first complete John Byrne book I recall reading.
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Ted Downum
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The Incredible Hulk annual #7, summer of '78. Blew my young mind!
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Michael Wolner Jr
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Marvel Team-Up #61 Spider-Man and The Human Torch. Two of my favorite characters.
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Athanasios Kollias
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This... I still remember it like it was yesterday.
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Mark Haslett
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Terry Austin cannot get too much credit for his contribution to that X-Men
run. I’ve come to love much more recent JB art more, but there is something
undeniably arresting about Byrne/Austin that remains in the art from that
era.
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Michael Penn
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It's not too difficult to see Mr. Austin's major contributions by looking at the work during that time not drawn by JB but inked by Terry Austin, e.g., the various covers by Dave Cockrum, the George Perez annual -- as well as the solo covers by Mr. Austin.
I sometimes think that if over the years Terry Austin hasn't gotten enough credit for the art, John Byrne hasn't gotten enough credit for the stories.
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John Byrne
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The Byrne/Austin X-MEN run was one of those cases where the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. Terry’s line and construction was very different from my own. Especially in smaller faces we see more of his angular approach. (Terry referred to his inking style as “mechanical.”)
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Brian Miller
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It was magic I tell ya, MAGIC!
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Andrew Bitner
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I think I had this issue but it's the one where the Alphans encountered Greek mythological creatures that sticks in my memory. (And FWIW, I had the American edition.)
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Dave Bensett
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I'm guessing my first John Byrne comic would likely have been Marvel Team-Up #59.
Yellowjacket and The Wasp.
I remember my parents buying it for me at a K-Mart in London Ontario while we were on vacation.
I would have been 11.
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ron bailey
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It's not too difficult to see Mr. Austin's major contributions by looking at the work during that time not drawn by JB but inked by Terry Austin .............................. Can't let the praise for that seminal work go on without mentioning how much I felt Tom Orzechowski's lettering lent to my enjoyment. So clean and legible while still allowing for creativity without distracting from the art and story. Whenever I picked up any other books it was an adjustment, and I wondered why he wasn't the standard bearer for quality lettering across all Marvel books. Literally the first letterer I ever bothered to note who it was. It would have been the last had it not been for Workman's work on Thor.
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