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Chad Carter
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Never seen this ad before. Sal explained in the TwoMorrows book that he had an actual ROM for reference, and it was "somewhere" in storage. I wonder if Sal realizes he's sitting on some bucks for this thing?
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Chad Carter
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Nathan Greno
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Chad: Also, I really enjoyed the way Sal drew ROM's eye energy sort of creating energy "smoke" when he moved his head.
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It's interesting to see what different artists did with ROM's eyes.
Let's start with the toy...
Sal looked at the glowing eyes of the toy and really pushed what he saw...
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Nathan Greno
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Sal's ROM...
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Nathan Greno
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Sal again...
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Nathan Greno
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Ditko was much more literal drawing the glowing-eyed model...
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Nathan Greno
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| Posted: 12 March 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | 7
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This is interesting... I found a pic of the unpublished original ROM #1 cover.
 Shooter rejected it and the artist, Michael Netzer, ripped it up in anger.
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Nathan Greno
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Frank Miller must have looked at Netzer's pose for the published cover...
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Dave Aikins
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The first version of the cover was by Al Milgrom. It was printed as a pin-up in issue 3.
It's better than the Miller one. To me at least (and to Al). Although I'm not sure where the logo would have gone.
So there ya go... Milgrom, Netzer, Miller. Took Shooter 3 tries to get a cover, because the Milgrom one was just so gosh darn wrong.
whatever.
Edited by Dave Aikins on 13 March 2012 at 12:04am
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Nathan Greno
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I like Miller's best. It's the clearest read (imho).
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John Byrne
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Shooter rejected it and the artist, Michael Netzer, ripped it up in anger.•• As you can see from the other two, the cover was supposed to show humans recoiling in horror as Rom appeared in their midst. Netzer disagreed, and also planted a self-portrait dead center. So Shooter rejected the drawing.
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Nathan Greno
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Netzer disagreed... how crazy! It's not like the guy was writing or drawing the book. What a nut.
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