| Posted: 04 May 2025 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | 6
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Apparently there was a "dispute" over who created Apocolypse. He first appeared in Louise Simonson's first issue of X-FACTOR (technically appeared in shadow on the last page of Bob Layton's run - who was meant to be the Owl). Simonson went in another direction (and we're all better off for that!). Anyway, Jackson Guice drew both issues. But he claimed that Walt Simonson designed the character, while Walt doesn't recall that and says that Jackson did it. Usually artists try to hog the credit, but this is the reverse!
Frankly, I would side with Walt designing him. I don't know if it was known then that Walt would be taking over the art on the title just 4 issues later, but he drew Apocolypse in such a way that I could believe that he designed him. The wide smile and superfluous attachments like those metal pipes are Simonson trademarks. It's entriely plausible that a writer taking over a title mid-story and wanting to quickly change the planned villain to someone new would ask her spouse that's also a top-notch character designer to whip up something instead of starting a back-and-forth with the regular artist. Of course, nobody could have guessed how much the character would have taken off!
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