Rittenhouse Archives Marvel
Galleries
Last Updated: January 05, 2012
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- mainly adding MU11 sketches
- added sub-galleries to Marvel Comics History Gallery, esp. Marvel Universe
- added M70 sketches to Marvel 70th Comics History
Gallery
- update to Dangerous Divas Gallery
- minor
update to Spider-Man Gallery
- minor update to X-Men
Gallery
Many of you
who know me well, knows that my main passion within the Marvel Comics Universe
comes from the fact that I grew-up in the Silver-Age (SA). So when Rittenhouse
Archives (RA) released the Complete Avengers sketch cards in 2006, it was my
intent to mainly go after SA characters. But I wound-up getting multiples of
characters like Iron man, Thor, etc. so I decided to make a whole page for each
of those characters. But instead of 9 sketches of the same character, in some
cases, I included other heroes or villains, that were originally associated with
that character.
In the first
half of 2008, with RA's releases of the Women of Marvel and Invincible Iron Man
sketches, rather than try to make standalone pages for those, I decided to merge
them with the existing Complete Avengers pages, using themes already established
with the Complete Avengers sketches.
In late
2008, with RA's release of the Fantastic Four Archives sketches, I merged the
two existing pages of FF-related sketches that had been created from CA and WoM,
with the new FFA sketches. Though there are not as many characters to deal with
as with the Avengers, since the FF was my favorite comics as a kid, I have about
as many pages for FF as I do for the Avengers
.
In mid-2009, RA released the X-men Archives sketches. I merged
the two existing pages of X-Men related sketches that had been created from CA
and WoM, with the new XMA sketches. Though I was not a big fan of the Silver-Age
X-Men as a kid, I realized their importance in the post-Silver
Age Marvel Universe. After studying their history, and with a wide array of popular characters
to choose from, I was able to create quite a few X-men themed pages.
In late-2009, RA released the Spider-man Archives sketches. I
merged the one existing page of Spidey related sketches that had been created
from CA and WoM, with the new SMA sketches. Since my favorite sketch card
artists, John Czop, and now Buddy Prince worked on this series, I was able to
create quite a few Spider-man themed pages 
.
Since there were now so many pages of sketches for the four series
of these popular characters / teams, this Gallery for ALL Rittenhouse Archives
Marvel-related sketches was getting too big, so I SPLIT them into four smaller
galleries, adding the fifth and sixth ones later.
In early 2010, RA released the Marvel 70th Anniversary sketches.
I picked-up some of them and added them to the four prior Galleries, but the
bulk of these, I put into a new Gallery which could represent 'Marvel Comics
History'. At the end of 2010 I added to this gallery with 100+ MHV sketches.
In early 2011, RA released the Marvel: Dangerous Divas sketches.
I picked-up some of them and added them to the five prior Galleries, but the
bulk of these, I put into a new Gallery which could represent 'Marvel: Dangerous Divas'.
In late 2011, RA released the Marvel Universe 2011 sketches. Since almost all of the MU11 sketches I got were the ones that dealt with Marvel's Crossover events, I put them into a separate sub-gallery in the 'Marvel Comics History' galleries.
Click on the links below to see each
individual gallery.
The Mighty Avengers Gallery
The Fantastic Four Gallery
The Amazing Spider-Man
Gallery
The Uncanny X-Men Gallery
Marvel Comics History Galleries
Marvel: Dangerous Divas Gallery
