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John Byrne
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
11" x 17" illo featuring "Composite Superman". Here is a link to the first cover appearance and some background details of the character:

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/174/

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- the customer would like you to have fun with the piece, so you have total carte blanche on the layout. You can draw a cover reimagining of the first appearance, or some other scene that you have in mind for the character.

- Please do include the characters from the first cover (Composite Superman, Superman, Batman, and Robin), but use your current versions of Superman, Batman and Robin and base the Composite Superman on those looks

- feel free to use a more dynamic use of Composite Superman's Legion of Super-Heroes based powers than shown on the first cover; this is your call though.

Shades of the too-many-tentacles Doctor Octopus montage -- here, having to keep track of which part of who I was drawing!!

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Matt Reed
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Nice!  I've always had a soft spot for Composite Superman more than likely due to nostalgia than anything else.  Read one of his first appearances as a kid of not more than five or six and it's always stuck with me.
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Paul Greer
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

I love it. He doesn't seem like an easy character to draw. But this is wonderful.

Hopefully, this is for Brad. If not congrats to the man Brad will steal this from. ;)

 
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John Byrne
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Never have been quite sure why a guy with all the powers of the Legion of Superheroes would dress up as half Superman and half Batman, and then call himself the Composite Superman. Except, of course, that the story required him to do so!

(And, yes, I know he's using Chameleon Boy's powers to look like that, not "dressing up".)

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Michael Arndt
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Looks great. One of the first World's Finest I read had the appearance of The Composite Superman. Congrats to the commissioner.
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Bill Mimbu
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Yes, congrats to the commissioner! 

And if it's not Brad, then I guess we'll be seeing a Composite Power Girl / Huntress showing up one of these days... ;-)
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Lloyd White
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Love the perspective here, and the dynamic use of powers. The
Composite Superman has always been one of my favorite characters--
-his look is so wild I loved it instantly as a child. I think what I liked
best about the character was more implied than actually shown in the
stories: "the villain that Superman and Batman couldn't defeat!". The
character generated in me a fear for safety of the World's Finest
heroes---this guy could level the planet, and the heroes with it, and
there wasn't anything they could do about it.
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Paul Go
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:25pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
I always thought him an odd character.  

Also a nostalgic bit for me: I remember eyeing a LSH comic on the spinner and begging my parents to get it for me (for naught - although I did get a Fantastic Four issue later).

Cool piece. 
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply
Nice! I love the depth achieved -- Superman's left foot really looks over and above the scene!
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
Very nice!
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Shawn Kane
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply
Awesome!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 28 September 2011 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply
It occurs to me that it's been a while since we looked at the Character Count chart. . .

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