Monday, April 18, 2011

Steranko's Future American

Always interesting to ponder what might have been. Here are a couple of mid-sixties concept drawings and pitches by the one and only Jim Steranko...pre-S.H.I.E.L.D.! This guy--FUTURE AMERICAN--was rejected by Harvey Comics even as they accepted Jim's Golden Gladiator, Magicmaster and Spyman concepts...and then went on to reject Jim, himself. What might have been...

2 comments:

  1. Neato!

    I'm curious just exactly one can be "overwhelmingly ingenious".

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  2. That expository text is just incredibly overwrought...matches his costume!

    I can see why this was rejected. Talk about unrelatable...sounds like second-rate Kirby.

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