A Look At the Marvel Covers Artist Edition
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2014
- In this video I page through an IDW Artist Edition volume.It's the "Marvel Covers" one that features full size and full color reproductions of the original art from various 1970s and 1980s Marvel comics.
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I love it. A look inside the process. Kinda seeing how it all comes together, which helps us artists in learning cause usually all we ever see is the finished product. Thanks for showing this.
beautiful book & a very fine video with lots of interesting insights.
+earl grey Glad you enjoyed it.
Romita should probably get more credit for all those Marvel covers he put out....really gave Marvel a cohesive feel during the 70's.
Great video.
John Romita was art director in the 70s and had a hand in a lot of the covers even if he didn't draw them. So yeah he deserves a lot of credit. Gil Kane did a lot of nice 1970s Marvel covers too.
That was really cool! I like all of the "process" notes as well. Thank you for sharing that, I will enjoy talking about it later at work!
Thanks for sharing and great comments/descriptions with lots of interesting trivia Jared. I don't usually go for those BIG pricey books, but this one looks full of awesome! Very tempting....
I really like these artist edition books. They are real pricey though. I seem to always be pinching my pennies to be able to afford one. I have a few more I have to show off.
awesome book! Thanks for sharing.....now I've gotta find a copy for myself
B2D 327 It's a great book. Well worth tracking down.
These books are beautiful; what a great idea. I will have to get a hold of a couple of these.
There are so many of these Artist Edition books now. It's kind of amazing how many.
This is awesome!
Beautiful book
i must say i totally enjoyed you presentation of this artist edition... well done
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Wow, thanks for the look inside. This one appears to be the same size as the Kirby Artists Edition, opposed to the Steranko one yet this is amazing to see those great covers. I will be adding this to my wish list indeed.
It is the same size as the Kirby one. Post mid-1960s comic art is all one and a half times up as compared to the pre-mid 60s stuff that's twice up. You can see in the Sternako one the exact time when they switched over to the smaller sized original art.
Man thats sick
Beautiful book! Thanks for sharing it with those of us who can’t afford it! ;) Why only 1 George Perez cover?!
Love me some Art Adams.
Cochrum did so many of those X-Men covers, because he knew doing them pissed Byrne off.
Ha! I hear so many stories about things that piss John Byrne off.
Barry Smith's Conan was great.
Normally I'm not buying the artist editions, but I had to buy this one even though I'm not so well known in the superhero universe. Some really great covers and a great video which show them all.
A lot of times I love the covers even if I don't like the comics!
I have bought a lot of the most famous and classic superhero omnibuses and are looking forward to read them. The Ditko Spider-man is a little boring in the beginning, I think I'm more into the Romita Sr. stuff. The artist edition contain a lot of great covers, but in some cases they have also chosen some which are not that good and a lot better choices could have been made. I normally read Euro-classics and non hero US-classics.
I was into Marvel as a kid but have read mostly indie stuff since the mid-1980s. The Ditko issues are my favorite Spider-Man comics. They were very inventive. The rest of it is all kind of the same to me. I like and dislike it to varying degrees but none of it matches Ditko.
They can only print the covers they have access to in the Artist Editions so I doubt they could get their hands on all their choices.
Yes, that is maybe it. A lot of people do like Ditko and I like him too, I just think Romita Sr. was better. We made a poll on a Danish comic website and here Romita Sr. won the poll over Ditko (most people are +40 years). There is an other review of the artist edition and in the start he said (edited quote): "...The potential was great, I feel it was a little bit disappointing in the selection, they could have selected a lot of better covers..". In Europe most people read Donald Duck and then later the European comics when they are kids. As teens some discovered the superhero's. I read a little superhero's, but prefered the European comics and some of the classic US-comics, like Hal Foster, Alex Raymond and Al Williamson etc.
Romita's work is a lot more glamorous than Ditko's. Romita eventually made Spider-Man even more popular than before and a lot of people prefer his Spidey. It's a little bit too glamorous for me. Though I do like Romita I prefer the grittiness of Ditko.
Donald Duck comics are almost unknown here in the USA. Unless you were a kid in the 1950s they weren't printed much. As a kid in the 1970s I read more about the duck comics than I read the comics. I knew who Carl Barks was but almost never saw his comics. Don Rosa was also mentioned throughout the 1980s.Then they always mentioned how popular they were in Europe.
And lots of people were disappointed their favorite covers weren't in there. But you can't please everyone. Especially when most of the covers aren't available to print from.
Wonderful covers in this book,but it should include perhaps the most iconic cover by Jim Starlin,Captain Marvel#29,where captain Marvel has a very determined and intimitated look in his face,before the alteration by John Romita Sr.
That is a cover I'd love to see. IDW always says they're restricted by the art they can actually get so maybe that one wasn't available. Or maybe we'll get it in a future volume. I hope so!
Thank you so much! I would like to have, but I believe it is out of stock everywhere!
Maybe they'll do a second printing. They've done that with some of them.
I don't think so! These books, are really limited!
What a beautiful book Jared. This must be another one that cost you a pretty penny huh? Thanks for this upload, really great stuff bro.
This one cost me $110 which makes it one of the cheaper Artists Editions if you can believe that. These Artist Editions are the reason I haven't bought many back issues or collected editions over the last couple of years. They will eat into a budget! I wish I could get them all but alas...
the word balloons also are missing from the beast kane cover One of my favorites, and wish he had been given the book to draw.copy also fell off the romita ff annual 8 cover.
Unfortunately rubber cement doesn't last forever. And it turns the paper brown.
Great vid, Im a huge fan of the Zeck, Cap versus Wolverine cover. You said you saw it sell on ebay back then? Im curious how much it sold for?
Sorry but it's been so long that I don't remember.
Sinnot inked Perez alot on Fantastic 4.
Regarding Beast covers at 7:35 - I'd never heard the 14 months of frame covers had a connection to the FF 10th anniversary. Though the timing is right. Has this been noted anywhere else?
I have never seen it noted anywhere. I got that info from John Romita himself in the early 1990s. I asked him why they did that and he told me it was to celebrate a tenth anniversary. But then he couldn't remember what tenth anniversary so he figured it must have been FF #1 (or maybe Spider-Man). I usually just refer to them as "Tenth Anniversary Covers" these days.
Of all the awesome Jack Kirby Marvel covers, they choose these??? Does some former Marvel employees have the best examples holed away from public viewing?
A lot of Kirby's art went missing from the Marvel offices and warehouse over the years. Who knows what IDW had to choose from but they always say they they can only print what they can get access to.
where can i buy this?
You can get them through your local comic shop or at Amazon or eBay.
thank so much
Recently got this bad boy for 84 bucks!
Wow! That's a great price!
Where did you get it man?
No Ditko?
+wallyj Probably not much Ditko available. A lot of his Marvel work was stolen and the stuff he got back he keeps and doesn't sell or show as far as I know.
That's a great book I need to get that
It's excellent. There is a 90s version of a Marvel covers book too that I'll have to get some day. I'm less of a 90s Marvel fan though.