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John Byrne - Captain America and Vindicator Hand Colored Tryout Page Original Art (circa 1971). Here's proof that Vindicator...
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John Byrne - Captain America and Vindicator Hand Colored Tryout Page Original Art (circa 1971). Here's proof that Vindicator of Alpha Flight was created years before John Byrne even joined Marvel! As Byrne explained in The X-Men Companion, published in 1982, "Vindicator goes back to my college days, when he was called the Sentinel, and then the Guardian... I created him in 1970 or 1971... In fact, somewhere Duffy Vohland, I think, has a badly colored page that has Vindicator battling Captain America that dates from those early days." That would put this page several years before Byrne's first published comic book work, and six or seven years before Vindicator made his first published appearance as "Weapon Alpha" in X-Men #109. The name Guardian, mentioned above by Byrne, later became the official name of the character when the Alpha Flight series began. The distinctive "Byrne cheekbones" are among the hallmarks evident on this early effort, which would have to be one of the earliest pieces of Byrne sequential art you'll find. The page has an image area of 10" x 15". Aside from paper creases in the center of the page and at the corners, the art is in Very Good condition.More information about John Byrne. See also: Byrne, John Artist.
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2005 October Comic Auction #818 (go to Auction Home page)
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October, 2005
14th-15th
Friday-Saturday
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