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Ernie Chan (commiss.)
Dead of Night 11
Fantastic Four 24
Fantastic Four 520
Fred Hembeck II (commiss.)
Chris Giarrusso (sketch)
Mvl. Fanfare 24
Mvl. Fanfare 46
Mvl. Team-Up Ann. 5
Mvl. Team-Up Ann. 5
The Thing 8
Thing 4
Thor Annual 14
Unshelved (sketch)

SERPENT SOCIETY ART
Battle Scars 4
Cpt. America 310
Cpt. America Ann. 10
Cpt. America 380
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Cpt. America 435
Cpt. America 437
Mvl. Team-Up Ann. 5
OHOTMU Master Ed 26
X-Men Ann. 13
Convention sketches
Katie Cook (sketch)

MANTIS ART
Annih. Conq. - Starlord 4
Fred Hembeck I (sketch)
Justice Lg. of America 142
Silver Surfer Ann 1

MISCELLANEOUS ART
Avengers 176
Avengers 324
Avengers v3 22 (colorist)
Mvl. Comics Presents 68
Marvel Fanfare 31
Ms. Marvel 15
OHOTMU Update '89 1
OHOTMU Update '89 7
Pet Avengers 4
Quasar 54
Solo Avengers 17
Squadron Supreme 12
Thom Zahler (sketch)

Marvel Fanfare.
Issue 46, page 8 (second story).

Artist and Inker: Tod Smith

     This came from the magic of Ebay, in late January of 2006. This Danny Fingeroth-penned story is a marvelous little gem, unjustly lost and forgotten mostly because its just an 8-page back-up story in a so-so issue of the mostly forgotten Marvel Fanfare series (this page is actually printed on the inside back cover). Basically, when Ben first becomes the Thing, he goes and faces his longtime girlfriend, only to have her react in horror. Shortly thereafter, she finds him on a bridge and tries to apologize, but self-pitying Ben drives her away for her own good. If you saw the FF movie, up to the last half of the last sentence, that probably sounded pretty familiar. I only wish that in the movie they'd named the girlfriend "Linda McGill" (her name here) instead of "Debbie." Still and all, a nice addition to Ben's early history, combined with some nice flashbacks to a few classic elements of FF #1 here. I'm very happy to have this one.


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