That's creepy . . .
Ya think? The book was just about to come out, and he was very excited. Of course, as a kid, I wanted to ask for The Thing, but he offered the Pope out of excitement for his project. I figured however many sketches he's done, this would end up being less common among his body of work. It's grown on me. Maybe because Joe Sinnott is just about the nicest human being on earth.
Similar thing happened to me when I met Stan Goldberg. He had high enthusiasm for drawing a 3 Stooges sketch, the book he was working on at the time, but I steered him as graciously as possible to a Millie.