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Gene Colan pencils/Dick Ayers inks; page 1; 1971; image size 10" x 15"

Great splash by Colan from the first issue in which Falcon gets title billing along with Cap. Featuring Cap, Falcon, and Redwing battling Stone-Face's goons. The Falcon was such a new character that this is also only his second-ever splash page appearance. The issue is also the first appearance of the villain Stone-Face. Pen and ink. Art is in excellent condition.

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Artists Information

Eugene Jules Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror series. He co-created the Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics, Carol Danvers, who would become Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel, and the supernatural vampire hunter Blade.

Richard "Dick" Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of the main inkers during the late-1950's and 1960's Silver Age of Comics, including some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' including Jack Kirby's The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s. His career would span 7 decades until his death in 2014.