Art Day - Starlin Superman 0

[rsonenthal]

In July of 1980, DC Comics Presents issue #26 came out (carried a cover date of October).  It was an important issue – not for anything that has to do with Jim Starlin.  More about that shortly.  The reason it was important is that contained a 16 page preview of the New Teen Titans.  At some point, I’ll write more about NTT, but I believe the Wolfman/Perez run is one of the more consequential DC runs in the last 40 years.

For me, though, the Len Wein/Jim Starlin four issue run was personally captivating, and also introduced Mongul to the Superman cast of major super villains. Creating real competition for Superman is extremely difficult if not impossible, but Wein and Starlin succeeded in a perfect bad guy in Mongul.  Mongul has continued to appear in the DCU in various books and notably in Superman Annual #11, written by Alan Moore.  Additionally, Wein chose to give Superman the weakness of pride and explore in this short run what happens when the man of tomorrow makes a mistake.  It's a deceptively complex run.  Anyway, I’m always on the lookout for pages from this run, and when I had the chance to put my hands on the one of the covers, I jumped on it.

Please take a look at the cover to DC Comics Presents #28 by Jim Starlin.  Link:  http://cafurl.com?i=24880

As always, feel free to take a look at anything else that looks interesting.

Ron

PS   If you're looking for a Gil Kane Thor cover, 2x Kane Atom splash, Kirby Western splash, Cardy Batman/Deadman cover or a Jack Davis EC splash, you're in luck, they're still available in my for sale gallery.  Link: https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=96811

 

[comix4fun]

Oh that's badass!!!

Love this cover and this era for DC comics. 

[AnkurJ]

Very nice!

[spider9698]

Outstanding cover Ron!   Congrats!

[GreggR]

I actually have two pages from issue 24 of this run, colored by someone unknown. Here's p8:

 

[GreggR]

I have p11 also but the system is stopping the upload because the two together put me over a limit. If I'm allowed, I'll post it as well.

[GreggR]

Here's p11,

 

 

Edited July 8, 2020 by GreggR

[rsonenthal]

These are great.  What a wonderful run!  I've seen another colored page somewhere.  

Thanks for sharing!

Ron

[GreggR]

On 7/8/2020 at 4:01 PM, rsonenthal said:

These are great.  What a wonderful run!  I've seen another colored page somewhere.  

Thanks for sharing!

Ron

Thanks. I think the colorist did a really nice job, whoever it was. These are two great action pages showing off the characters in a great way.