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Original Comic Art Sale – Coming soon!

I’m going to be selling the original art for these three covers from Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes very soon. Right now the plan is to do it by way of eBay auction. Anyone out there have any alternative suggestions?

This is a warm up for selling some original covers and interior pages from my Young Justice run, so I’m looking for the optimal system…

Avengers EMH Cover - Enchantress 100

Avengers: EMH #15

Avengers EMH Cover - Ronan 100

Avengers: EMH #16

Avengers EMH Cover - PM & IF 100

Avengers: EMH #17

Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – IN STORES NOW!

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I penciled and inked the covers for these three issues of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES (2012) #15
Baron Zemo comes to the Avengers for help against the Enchantress!

MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES (2012) #16
THE KREE EMPIRE COMES TO EARTH! Ms. Marvel joins the Avengers against Ronan the Accuser.

MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES (2012) #17
The Ant-Man armor has been stolen! Hank Pym needs help from the HEROES FOR HIRE to get it back!

All three issues are in comic shops now! Find your local comic book store with Comic Shop Locator!

Creating a Cover: AVENGERS: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES #16

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Marvel Universe – Avengers:Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #16

Adapted by Joe Caramagna
Cover by Christopher Jones

THE KREE EMPIRE COMES TO EARTH!
Ms. Marvel joins the Avengers against Ronan the Accuser.
Based on season two of the hit Disney XD TV show!
32 Pages / All Ages – $2.99

This is the second in a series of three covers I did recently for the comic book tie-in for the Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes animated TV show.

Initially all I was told was that the cover was to feature “Ronan the Accuser and Captain Mar-Vell putting the earth on trial.”

Without any other specifics on the story, I wasn’t sure how to represent that idea visually? I asked “Would you want some kind of alien courtroom setting? Who other than Ronan and Mar-Vel would need to be on the cover?”

I was told “Let’s go a little more sci-fi here – Ronan and Captain Mar-Vell looking down on Earth, the Avengers preparing to defend it,” and that the Avengers to be included were Captain America, Ms. Marvel and Iron Man.

Ronan & Mar-Vel cover sketch

Sketch A

Ronan & Mar-Vel cover sketch b

Sketch B


My first thought was to have the heroes in a “ready for a fight” pose with Ronan and Mar-Vell towering over them, looking judgmental. I wanted Earth in the background, which meant that our immediate location needed to be in open space or on a spaceship of some kind. If they were on a ship, what kind of ship was it? If they were in open space, are the Avengers characters wearing space suits? I was reluctant to solve these problems with specifics that wouldn’t correlate with the actual story.

I had a second take on the cover that gave more focus to the story’s “guest stars” Ronan and Mar-Vell, looking from their level down at the trio of heroes on some kind of platform with a protective force field dome and the Earth behind them. While this platform was likely to be specific only to the cover and not found in the story, this layout seemed to do a much better job of getting across the idea of Ronan and Mar-Vel presiding in judgement over Earth and the heroes. To strengthen this impression I put the heroes in shackles, and tried to make the platform a bit of Kirby-esque space sculpture but also bearing a resemblance to the top of a Grecian column, hopefully further evoking a courtroom ambiance.

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Cover Pencils

Avengers EMH Cover - Ronan 100

Cover Inks


Sketch B was chosen, so pencils and inks were pretty straightforward. I had a great deal of fun drawing Ronan and Mar-vell, especially.

You can find my previous Creating a Cover installments here.