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[Speedy-D]

Aron Wiesenfeld Union #12 Cover -

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=255160&GSub=37938

(This was a fabulous gift from Aron! The Union series was cancelled before this issue/cover was published).

[Royd]

Great to see another fan of Aron's work here at the boards

 

Aron Wiesenfeld Union #12 Cover -

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=255160&GSub=37938

(This was a fabulous gift from Aron! The Union series was cancelled before this issue/cover was published).

[joel mangrum-migration]

Only unpublished piece I have is this Vision pin-up by John Eboigbe. He says he did two pin-ups for Avengers #381 and they chose the other one over this. I've never been inclined to track down the issue to verify but why would someone lie about something so easy to check on?

 

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=426224&GSub=118010

 

[ashrael]

Atlantis Attacks 2 Mini page

 

From what I understand they were commissioned by Marvel to do the 2nd "Atlantis Attacks" in 2001...but due to some changes at marvel this story got stuck in a drawer and forgot about.

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=767718&GSub=126839

 

[Speedy-D]

I've been pondering buying this guy for a while now...

 

[Terry Doyle]

Mike Mayhew's unpublished cover to PULSE # 2:

 

 

Dell'Otto's published cover (that replaced it):

 

 

Although Mike's art was never used as originally intended, it was later published as an interior illustration for a collected edition.

 

[Mycroft]

An unpublished cover by Simone Bianchi.

 

It was done as a possible cover for Marvel Italia.

 

That version was not published as definite cover but is published on Simone Bianchi first artbook, "Echi".

 

(Special thanks to Gloria from www.simonebianchi.com for the informations)

 

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=810869&GSub=120668

 

Bianchi signature is easy to miss, since, at that time, he signed on the side, and left a lot of space between the letters.

 

There is another one with Spidey and Doc in the galleries of this website which may have been the final choice : http://www.simonebianchi.com/immagini/SPIDERMAN.jpg?image_id=148

[potatojoe]

 

"Dawn of the Dead"

 

This Garbage Pail Kid was supposed to be part of the 3rd series (2003)

[CollectingFool]

I think this was redone because the sword came out too short.

 

 

 

[Terry Doyle]

 

CAPTAIN ATOM # 90 unpublished cover (1967) by Steve Ditko

 

Interesting story behind this one . . .

 

This cover was offered through Heritage in 2008 . . . being listed as the unpublished (alternative) cover to CAPTAIN ATOM # 89 (December 1967).

 

Steve Fishler owns the published CAPTAIN ATOM # 89 cover and, curiously enough, when I looked at the image in Steve's (awesome) CAF Galleries, I noticed that his # 89 cover is actually numbered up for the October # 88 issue . . .

CAPTAIN ATOM # 89 cover (owned by Steve Fishler) numbered as # 88

 

My belief is that Steve Fishler's cover was intended for CAPTAIN ATOM # 88, but was re-scheduled (along with its accompanying story) to become # 89.

 

 

CAPTAIN ATOM # 89 printed cover

 

So, to recap on all of this . . . the unpublished cover presented here (at the beginning of this post) was originally intended for # 89 . . . was then re-scheduled for # 90 . . . but never saw print as the title got cancelled with # 89!

 

Some years later, the accompanying (unpublished) story, aborted in pencil stage by Ditko, was inked by John Byrne and finally saw publication over two consecutive issues of the 1970s CHARLTON BULLSEYE fanzine.

 

To break the story up into two parts, this unused cover was actually published as the Part 2 splash page. The story recap & title elements were incorporated as paste-ups (now removed - though slight traces of glue residue can still be detected where they once existed).

 

The CAPTAIN ATOM logo is now back in position (showing where the December date and # 89 issue details were removed when the re-shuffle took place).

 

This cover appears to be both penciled and inked by Ditko (there is a solo signature whereas earlier covers sport joint signatures such as Ditko/Rocke or Ditko/McLaughlin).

 

So here you have the original CAPTAIN ATOM # 89 cover (December 1967) . . . re-scheduled for # 90 (but unpublished) . . .which also served as a mid-1970s published Part 2 story splash!

 

Hope I’ve not lost anyone!

 

[drewincanada]

 

 

Great story, great cover! Thanks for sharing.

[DStorm]

Picked this one up from a fellow board member last week. I figured this was appropriate with the return of Valiant and XO Manowar just around the corner.

 

This is the original unpublished cover to XO Manowar #1 by Bob Layton! I was told that Jim Shooter thought that the helmet didn't look right and Aric's face looked too mean so he had Bob redraw it.

 

In the margin in blue pencil it says "helmet too 'comic book'" ..... also at the bottom there is another blue pencil note but it's very feint. I think it says "This is not loboman!!!" probably referring to the fact that the facial expression was more of a "Lobo" face than an Aric face.

 

[Terry Doyle]

Unpublished cover art to KONA # 19 (September 1966) by Sam Glanzman:

 

 

Published cover:

 

[alxjhnsn]

In the 1960s, Sheldon Mayer tried to get Sugar and Spike picked up as a Newspaper strip. This unpublished 2x page seems to be a sample of what a Sunday strip would look like. You can read about this in some detail on the CAF by clicking here.

 

I used the Vast Unpaid Research group (DC and Gormuu Message Boards) to get information on the piece. I wasn't aware of this group at the time. Maybe you folks can tell me more about it.

 

Here's the image: