mte2 – Almond Ink

Welcome back longtime client Larry Clay with his 11th piece in the Inkwell commission gallery, a cover recreation of Marvel Treasury Edition #2 pencilled by M.C. Wyman from the work of the original cover artist John Romita, Sr. For my 12th effort over Mr. Wyman I inked this 11X17 job on 2-ply board in brush & markers. Two nostalgic MTE cover recreations back to back by 2 different clients- what are the odds?! Completed on 2/25/2008.

M.C. Wyman’s pencils

Bob’s inks

Original cover source by John Romita Sr.

Additional background art & lettering by Bob Layton

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Bob is the inking half of the Sal Velluto art team collaboration on such projects as Marvel’s critically-acclaimed BLACK PANTHER,’99-’02 leading to a 2003 Comicboards “Ooks” Award for “Best Inker” & two “Squiddies” awards for “Best Inker” (2001 along with “Best Creative Team” win and 2002 tied with Mark Farmer and tied for “Best Multi-Part Story”), and many other projects with Sal since 1997 and other artists at Marvel, DC, Acclaim, Malibu, Penny-Farthing Press, Power Comics, IDW, Kingstone, Thrilling Nostalgia Comics, Harris Comics, Topps, Wildstorm, New England Comics, Valiant and several others. While he’s been primarily an ink artist he’s also been a columnist for Sketch magazine and First Comics News. Bob’s a comic book collector and unofficial historian who has acted as a “Master of the Obscure” at the Marvel Appendix site, been a longtime member of the “Jarvis Heads” and a “group expert” at Facebook groups. He’s the founder/director of the official non-profit Inkwell Awards and advocate since 2008. Bob has been credited with “Special Thanks” along with his “Storyteller” colleagues Christopher Priest & Sal Velluto in the record-breaking film BLACK PANTHER (2018) and BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022).

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