JB, do you have a collection - photocopied or otherwise, of all your unpublished stuff? I keep coming across stuff at cons and on the internet, and it thrills me! It's great that we have such a comprehensive gallery here, but I want a book of this stuff, frankly!
JOHN BYRNE - KARL KESEL - Original Artwork for UNPUBLISHED Version to the cover for SUPERMAN #6, DC Comics, 1987, pen and ink with brush on paper, signed by the artist on the lower left box and in the left middle margin, this version is obviously Superior to the one used on the comic book, however the girls open skirt (flirting with a beaver shot) was obviously made smaller for the cover itself, and the larger "foe" fighting Superman is made more clear...
Ummmmmmm...what? "Flirting with a beaver shot"?!?! This guy obviously hasn't gotten out much, as the slit in the skirt isn't approaching what he's describing.
Sure does give voice to "fanboys in basements" though, don't it?
A few summers back I went to stay with Darick Robertson in NYC, and as a favor to both of us, I took his pages in to DC for him (less commute for him, I got to hang out at the DC Offices!) - So I took in a batch of Transmet pages one day, and delivered them to Heidi, and one of the pages had a young woman sitting up in bed, and the bed sheets were between her legs, and somehow, if you looked at it in the right light, it looked like Darick had drawn a beaver shot. I mean, he obviously hadn't, and neither he nor I noticed it, but when I handed in the pages, Heidi did this spit take, and started yelling about how, despite how "cutting edge" Vertigo titles were, you still couldn't show the goods right there on the page - it was a humorous mix-up, but I still get a chuckle out of it...
You'll notice that the image of Lois on the printed cover, which the eBay idiot is suggesting is the reason the cover was changed, is in fact a stat of the original.
This is one of those stories I grouse about all the time, where someone makes an obviously false statement or erroneous assumption, and it would take about 3 kilocalories of energy to fact-check, but instead. . .
