Marvel Comics History Sketchafex Galleries
Last Updated: May 24, 2025 ...
- Page 48: added Darren Auck, Sue Storm vs Dr. Doom sketch
The first gallery has evolved into a 'Marvel Comics History' Gallery. This gallery show my Marvel 70th Anniversary and Marvel: Heroes & Villains sketches, with themed pages consisting mainly of Rittenhouse sketchafexes from those two releases (with at least one Divas sketch thrown-in). When I started-out acquiring M70 sketches in the first couple of days after they were released (in April of 2010), I got some of the usual "static character" sketches, but I realized what would be more interesting would be to get sketches that I interpreted as representing an actual comic or event in Marvel History. So I regretted acquiring some of the "static character" sketches. However, I did create three pages to cover individual heroes which I have not covered in prior RA releases, such as Daredevil, The Hulk and Dr. Strange.
The second gallery show my Marvel Universe 2011 sketches, with themed pages consisting mainly of Rittenhouse sketchafexes from the Marvel Universe 2011 release. I mainly got MU11 sketches that dealt with the Marvel Crossover events that were the focus of this set. Later, I added a couple of pages of Marvel Universe 2014 sketches.
The third gallery show my Marvel Bronze Age sketches, with themed pages consisting of Rittenhouse sketchafexes from the Marvel Bronze Age release. I mainly got MBA sketches that dealt with actual scenes from Marvel History, or were cover recreations / tributes.
The fourth gallery show my Marvel's Greatest Battles sketches, with themed pages mainly consisting of Rittenhouse sketchafexes from the Marvel's Greatest Battles release. I mainly got MGH sketches that dealt with actual scenes from Marvel History.
The fifth gallery show my Marvel 75th Anniversary sketches, with themed pages consisting of Rittenhouse sketchafexes from the Marvel 75th Anniversary release. I mainly got M75 sketches that are Warren Martineck's cover recreations.
For this web site, I have found it better to scan the entire 9-pocket (a.k.a. page), rather than to put each sketch up as an individual scan. Besides for those of you who know me, I am very obsessive about how my pages are arranged 
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Currently I have 54 "full" pages of RA's M70, MHV, MU11 MBA, MU14, MGB & M75 sketchafexes. Below, I give a brief summary of what is in each page, just to the right of the thumbnail for that page.
Note: Click the thumbnail to open a new window to see a larger-size view of the page.
Table 12a: Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary Sketchafex Cards
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Page 1: Pre-Silver Age In 1939, Timely Publications started and early-on introduced the Android Human Torch, Namor and Captain America. In the 1950's, it changed it's name to Atlas Comics, and with the end of the 'Golden Age' and the loss popularity of super-heroes, Atlas focused more on horror, humor, espionage, adventure, etc. This is highlighted by these sketches:
It's interesting to note that certain pre-Silver-Age characters (such as The Black Knight, Yellow Claw and Fin Fang Foom) were later revived as characters in the Silver-Age, which shows a continuity from the creative teams at Atlas to those of Marvel. |
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Page 2: Martineck: The Silver-Age For his 150 M70 sketches, Warren Martineck has an "inspired" idea ... each of his sketches represented a certain key event from one of the 71 years spanning 1939 - 2009 !! I was most interested in ones representing The Silver-Age years of the 1960's.
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Page 3: Martineck: Post Silver-Age I also acquired these Martineck sketches representing the decades after The Silver-Age:
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Page 4a: Martineck - Miscellaneous Since I had an "extra" M70 Martineck, and since I like some of the MDD Puzzles ... I prefer to call thenm two-panels ... I decided to make this page Here is my result:
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Page 4b: Martineck: Landscape-oriented Those who know me knows that I don't like to mix portrait-oriented (p-o) sketches with landscape-oriented (l-o) sketches in my pages. This causes me to pass on acquiring some nice sketches Here is my result:
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Page 5: Tribute to Kirby Some of these sketches I originally collected since the artist is paying a direct tribute to my favorite comics artist, the late Jack 'The King' Kirby. The other sketches I consider as paying an "indirect" tribute to Kirby, so I included them on this page
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Page 6: Roy Cover's History-making sketches This page has a bunch of Roy Cover's sketches that I particularly like, and that for the most part represents an event in Marvel History. Roy KNOWS his Marvel History !! Either by asking Roy, or by my own interpretation, I have included the issue of the comic that Roy is paying tribute to with the particular sketch. The first five are in chronological order.
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Page 7: Czop's History-making sketches This page has a bunch of Czop's sketches that I particularly like, and that for the most part represents an event in Marvel History. Czop also KNOWS his Marvel History !! Either by asking Czop or by my own interpretation, I have included the issue of the comic that Czop is paying tribute to with the particular sketch. The sketches are listed in chronological order.
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Page 8: Czop's History-making sketches (pg 2) This page is a continuation of the prior page
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Page 9: Czop's History-making sketches (pg 3) This page has a bunch of Czop's sketches that I particularly like, but unlike those from the prior two pages, I don't think they represent any particular event in Marvel History.
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Page 10: Lak Lim's History-making sketches Though a different style than Cover or Czop, I like Lak Lim's sketches for the same reason as Roy's and Czop's above ... they seem to tell a story. His sketches looks like small panels from a comic book ?
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Page 18: Miscellaneous Landscape-oriented As I mentioned for Page 4b, those who know me knows that I don't like to mix portrait-oriented (p-o) sketches with landscape-oriented (l-o) sketches in my pages. This causes me to pass on acquiring some nice sketches, esp. the Roy Cover sketches for M70 Here is my result so far for M70 and MHV:
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Page 19: Captain America When I acquired a couple of M70 sketches of Cap, I was thinking of using them to add a new Complete Avengers Captain America page, but I decided to make a new one here in this Gallery .. because let's face it .. Cap is "historic" !!
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Page 20: Daredevil When I acquired a couple of M70 sketches of Daredevil, I decided to do a page for Daredevil, another important character in the Marvel Universe.
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Page 21: Dr. Strange Another character I has always liked from The Silver-Age is Dr. Strange, though I could never quite understand "his powers", but I found the array of supporting characters interesting and colorful. So I decided to finally give him his due, and create a page for him too
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Page 22: The Incredible Hulk (Page 1) Well, I am NOT really much of a Hulk fan. I never cared for his brutish all-powerful "personna". In fact for Complete Avengers, I only kept two Hulk sketches !! But since he seems to be in so many of the M70 (and later MHV) sketches that I acquired, I decided to finally give him his due respect in the Marvel Universe and make a page for him
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Page 23: The Incredible Hulk (Page 2) This is a continuation of the previous page.
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Page 24: Buddy Prince ter nearly kill Spider-Man
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Page 29: World War Hulk World War Hulk was a crossover event in 2007. The Hulk returns to Earth after the Planet Hulk storyline, waging war on the Illuminati and all that wronged him.
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Page 30: Secret Invasion Secret Invasion was a crossover event in 2008. After the destruction of their homeworld, and a change in leadership, the Skrulls secretly replaced Earth's heroes in preparation for an invasion of Earth. Leaving one question to be asked, "Who do you trust?"
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Page 31: Secret Invasion - Lodrigueza From the Marvel Universe 2011 release, I liked the artwork of Marlo Lodrigueza, and the way the he tells part of the story with his sketches. This page has some of his Secret Invasion sketches.
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Page 32: Secret Invasion - Lodrigueza (cont.) This is a continuation of the prior page with more of Marlo Lodrigueza's Secret Invasion sketches.
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Page 33: Secret Wars The Secret Wars was a ground breaking mini-series in 1984 that brought all of Earth-616's greatest heroes together to battle with the worst villains under the watchful eye of the Beyonder.
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Page 34: Miscellaneous These were sketches from some of the other crossover events that were covered by Marvel Universe 2011.
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Page 35: Miscellaneous These were sketches from some of the other crossover events that were covered by Marvel Universe 2011, as well as sketches that "caught my eye".
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Page 40: Cover Recreations & Tributes To me nothing shows the History of Marvel like sketches showing the cover for key issues of Marvel Comics. So this page has recreations or tributes of covers, which I assume is an issue "of importance, or that had an impact" to the respective artist who drew the sketch.
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Page 41: More Cover Recreations & Tributes This page has more covers for key issues of Marvel Comics. Rows 1 (artist Darren Chandler) & 2 (artist HDR) shows four "new" characters that were introduced during the Bronze Age.
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Page 42: Miscellaneous This page has miscellaneous sketches anchored by Martineck's 4-panel tribute to Secret Wars I. Row 1 has three "Silver-Age era" sketches, that I used to fill the page.
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. But I like the Martineck's M70 sketches, and then some of the MDD Puzzles so much, that I decided to try to combine them into an 8-pocket page Table 12d: Marvel's Greatest Battles Sketchafex Cards
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For me, the problem with collecting Marvel's Greatest Battles sketches are that they are a two-sketch pair, which isn't suited for displaying them in 9-pockets. But rather that leave a blank spot in each row, I filled that spot with miscellaneous sketches, that were either by the same artist, or had a similar theme. Initially I liked some of the MGB sketches by my favorite artists ... Buddy Prince, John Czop and Alberto Silva, so I worked on getting three of them for each page. Later I picked-up some from other artists too. | |
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Page 43: Buddy Prince, Page 1 Three classic match-ups:
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Page 44: Buddy Prince, Page 2 Three more classic match-ups:
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Page 45: John Czop, Page 1 Czop seems to have doen a series of X-Men vs. Sentinels, so I got these three.
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Page 46: John Czop, Page 2 I only found two more Czop MGB pairs, so I filled the page with individual Czop sketches.
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Page 47: Alberto Silva Page I only found two more Alberto Silva MGB pairs, so I filled that space with three individual Silva sketches.
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Page 48: Miscellaneous MGB Page On this page are MGB pairs that I liked since they represented actual comics events:
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Table 12e: Marvel Comics 75th Anniversary Sketchafex Cards
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Page 49: Martineck Cover Recreations, Page 1 For his M75 sketches, Warren Martineck drew sketches recreating his "favorite" covers. As you can see, I was most interested in ones from the Silver-Age, and esp. of comics I actually have.
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Page 50: Martineck Cover Recreations, Page 2 More Silver-Age covers.
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Page 51: Martineck Cover Recreations, Page 3 Two more covers from what I consider the Silver-Age, and miscellaneous ones I acquired to fill this page.
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Page 52: Martineck Cover Recreations, Page 3 I was able to acquire a "set" of Martineck's cover recreations for all six issues of the 1987 storyline 'Kraven's Last Hunt'. I assume the person I got them from acquired the pack-pulled one for Web of Spider-Man #32, and decided to commission Warren to draw the remaining five parts of Kraven's Last Hunt. Those five are marked on the back as Artist's Proof.
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