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Gil Kane pencils and inks; panels from pages 22 and 23; 1979; image size 7" 12.5"
Blackmark

Wonderful page from Kane's classic Blackmark series, featuring fantastic sci-fi/fantasy drawing. This page was original created for the second volume of the Bantam paperback series which was never published, the story was repurposed and published in Marvel Preview, in this case the panels were broken up and used on pages 22 and 23. Though not released until 1979 the page was drawn much earlier, likely around 1971/72 around the time the first volume was published. Pen and ink. Art is in excellent condition.

Artist Information

Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.