HANNIGAN, Ed, & Klaus Janson.

£9,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Original cover illustration for Amazing Heroes #45. The original cover artwork used for Amazing Heroes #45, accompanied by the magazine issue. The rooftop scene unites 17 Marvel and DC heroes: Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Thor, The Fantastic Four, She-Hulk, E-Man, Green Lantern, Halo, The Spirit, The Fly, Judge Dredd, Nexus, and The Rocketeer.The sketch is by Ed Hannigan, who is called "comicdom's premier cover artist" in the interview he gives in this magazine issue. The editor states inside, "in addition to supplying hundreds of cover sketches and ideas to [Marvel and DC] over the past few years, Ed has drawn some of the most visually exciting and different covers to appear on comic books in years".Hannigan's sketch is completed by Klaus Janson, inker and colourist for Marvel and DC. Janson has won multiple awards, including the 1987 Kirby Award, sponsored by Amazing Heroes, for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1. He has also won three Harvey Awards for Best Inker, in 2010 for The Amazing Spider-Man, in 2013 for Captain America, and in 2016 for The Dark Knight III: The Master Race.Amazing Heroes magazine offered commentary on comic books from June 1981 to July 1992, running for 204 issues. It won the Eagle Award for Favourite Speciality Comics Publication for four years in a row between 1985 and 1988. Along with discussion of Star Wars and Sherlock Holmes, this issue includes the first widely available appearance in print of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, via an advertise

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