The artists' series - Stephen Platt

[une_croix]

In 1993/4 an unknown artist found himself propelled to the big leagues in comics via a 4 issue stint on the soon to be cancelled Moon Knight series from Marvel.




11 big images under the cut.















Platt's first issue of Moon Knight was 55 (I don't have that one - it still commands big bucks as a back issue) - and while it caught folks' attention, it wasn't until 57 featuring Spider-man that it all started to get out of hand. His style was described as dynamic, powerful and McFarlane-esque (remember, this is only 2 years after Image comics was founded - Todd and the rest were still a huge deal and most books from the big 2 featured either Image-clones on art or Image-ised characters) and he was soon jockeying with Todd for the number one spot on Wizard's Top Ten Hottest Artists list...











Marvel were set to assign Platt to their Cable book which sold well enough (it was an X book and this was 1994) but could really use a boost from a "hot" artist. As it turns out, Cable's creator, Rob Liefeld -



-snapped Platt up and assigned him to the ongoing Image/Extreme Prophet series (originally a 4 issue mini with art by Dan Panosian (the current penciller of X-Factor Forever)) starting with #5 - ahead of his interior debut, a Platt variant cover to #4 saw that comic become one of the most wanted back issues in the land.

Next: Prophet!

Comments

[sir_razorback]

You think that's odd? Let's play a game. It's called "Find Puck's right elbow".

[kamino_neko]

Puck's elbow is the least of his anatomical problems...the fact that his head seems to end just below the eyes (although he still has the 'stache) would be my pick for the worst.