Before there was Crisis on Infinite Earths
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| Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, April 1985 |
there was Crisis on Other Earth!
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| from Avengers #144, February 1976 |
This is a precious little gem I uncovered while reading
through the Serpent Crown saga of Avengers #141 - #149.
Perez was a young comic
artist just getting started at Marvel. He was working on Steve Englehart’s the Serpent
Crown story line in Avengers #144, February 1976, where the Avengers get shanghaied
to the Squadron’s world.
The really striking thing about this drawing is that this
was almost 10 years before Crisis On Infinite Earths came out and yet the
illustrations are so similar with the heroes floating around in space while
energy crackles around them that you would swear that this illustration was a
major inspiration behind The Crisis on Infinite Earths. Did Perez recall of
this old comic when Marv Wolfman pitched this project to him or was he equally
instrumental in the creation of it? We may never know the inner workings of the
creative mind but it fun to contemplate it, look for connections and hints like
this one.
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