#John Beatty

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#Marvel #Comic #Comics #X-Men #Gambit #Mutant #Remy Lebeau #Andy Kubert #John Beatty

[themarvelproject]

Continuing our celebration of the 40th anniversary of the iconic Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars limited series with a Marvel house ad featuring art by Mike Zeck with inks by John Beatty (1984)

#marvel comics #marvel house ads #secret wars #marvel limited series #marvel super hero secret wars #jim shooter #mike zeck #john beatty #secret wars 40th anniversary #marvel 1980s #marvel 1984

[mjjmayor]

Captain Marvel tells off Iron Man // Secret Wars (1984) #6, Oct 1984

#captain marvel #monica rambeau #iron man #james rhodey rhodes #james rhodes #marvel #marvel comics #jim shooter #bob layton #john beatty

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“Epic”

Mike Zeck - John Beatty

#Deathlok #Captain America #Marvel House Ads #Mike Zeck #John Beatty #gunz

[artphotographyofmen]

Hawkeye by John Beatty

#john beatty #hawk eye #Hawkeye #clint barton #art #artwork #marvel #marvel characters #marvel heroes #marvel superheroes #marvel comics #marvel art #marvel men

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beattyyy :3

I SWEAR ITS NOT BARNEY CALHOUN THIS IS JUST HOW I IMAGINED HIM WHILE I WAS READING LOL

#art #digital art #ibispaintx #fahrenheit 451 #fahrenheit 451 fanart #f451 #captain beatty #beatty #john beatty #lol

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Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1 # 243 by John Romita, Jr., with Inks by John Beatty.

#Amazing Spider-Man #Spider-Man #Peter Parker #John Romita Jr. #John Beatty #Cover Process #Process #Master Class #Marvel #Marvel Comics #Comics #Art #Illustration

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Captain America #283 Cover (1983) by Mike Zeck And John Beatty

#Comics #Marvel Comics #Captain America #Mike Zeck #John Beatty #Original Art #Nomad #Sharon Carter #Madame Hydra #Vintage #Art #Marvel #1983 #1980s #80s

[cantsayidont]

March 1988. Brainiac takes the L. This venerable Superman villain became one of the worst victims of change-for-the-sake-of-change in the John Byrne run: Instead of a scary alien android out to kill God, Byrne's revamped Brainiac was Milton Fine, a dipsomatic carnival mentalist with untapped psychic powers who is intermittently possessed by a malevolent alien intelligence. What alien intelligence, you ask?

Of course, most of this is account is eventually revealed as a lie; in keeping with the general xenophobia of the Byrne Superman, Dox is a vicious would-be world conqueror, not a humanitarian, and he was essentially executed, not accidentally disintegrated. (THE DEMOLISHED MAN, incidentally, is a well-known science fiction novel by Alfred Bester, who was also a prolific comics writer, although in the novel, that term has nothing to do with literal disintegration.)

This is the basic dynamic of Byrne's Brainiac: Fine's psychic abilities make him a dangerous foe for Superman, but because Fine is physically a normal human being, Superman can't fight back directly without killing him. Meanwhile, no one but the reader initially knows that the alien intelligence possessing Fine is real, not just a delusion.

That all makes a certain amount of sense, but this version of Brainiac was still a massive downgrade, trading the apocalyptic grandeur of the 1983 Marv Wolfman/Gil Kane Brainiac and his terrifying Ed Hannigan character design for what feels like a warmed-over TALES FROM THE CRYPT plot. Jerry Ordway's art (inked here by John Beatty) is superb, but the premise is exceedingly hokey, and there's just no way to make washed-up carnie Milton Fine anything other than kind of pathetic, whatever his powers. Moreover, this reboot created yet more conflicts with the Legion of Super-Heroes, whose scientific genius Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) is a descendant of Vril Dox.

After Byrne's departure, his successors attempted to rectify these issues by having Lex Luthor's scientists surgically transform Fine's body to resemble Dox's original one (albeit with a beard) while further boosting his psychic powers. A 1990 crossover between Superman and L.E.G.I.O.N. clarified the relationship between Fine's Vril Dox and the Vril Dox in L.E.G.I.O.N. (who's the son of the one possessing Milton Fine), explained how the elder Dox actually came to be disintegrated, and more or less sorted out how this story related to the early issues of L.E.G.I.O.N. All that made the post-Crisis Brainiac less embarrassing, but still not very menacing or particularly interesting as a character — and, typical of post-Crisis DC, made his history almost impenetrably convoluted.

#comics #adventures of superman #john byrne #jerry ordway #john beatty #superman #brainiac #vril dox #brainiac 5 #l.e.g.i.o.n #milton fine #i assume the name milton fine is a portmanteau #of comics greats milton caniff and lou fine #but that honestly makes it worse #what an awful “tribute”! #the pre-crisis brainiac's origins were something of a mess #but this was not an improvement in any way #and byrne dumped what was cool about the pre-crisis version #just to put his own stamp on it

[wonderwomanart]

Wonder Woman by John Beatty

#john beatty #wonder woman #diana of themyscira #diana prince #dc comics #dcu #dc universe #dc superheroes #dc heroes #art #wonder woman art

[balu8]

Justice League Quarterly #4: Cracked Ice,

by J. M. DeMatteis; Darick Robertson; John Beatty; Gene D'Angelo and Bob Pinaha

DC

#dc comics #Justice League Quarterly #darick robertson #john beatty #gene d'angelo #bob pinaha #j.m. dematteis #comic book #long post

[themarvelproject]

Happy New Year from The Marvel Project! Kicking off 2024 with the classic cover of Secret Wars #1 (1984) by Mike Zeck with inks by John Beatty. Secret Wars celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, so I'm looking forward to further exploring this fantastic and fun limited series along with some of the other definitive titles that debuted in 1984.

#marvel comics #marvel limited series #marvel secret wars #mike zeck #john beatty #jim shooter #marvel super heroes secret wars #avengers #x-men #marvel 1980s #marvel 1984

[tomoleary]

Jackson Guice and John Beatty - New Mutants #50 Magus Double Page Splash (1987) Source

#jackson guice #john beatty #new mutants #magus #dps #original art

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AI, Artificial Intelligence

Mike Zeck - John Beatty

#Amazo #Professor Ivo #Justice League of America #Earth 1 #Green Lantern #Flash #Wonder Woman #Martian Manhunter #Aquman #Hal Jordan #Barry Allen #Mike Zeck #John Beatty #Artificial Intelligence

[cccovers]

Haunted #59 (January 1982) cover by Dan Reed and John Beatty.

#haunted #comic covers #80s #dan reed #john beatty

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Batman by John Beatty from Detective Comics No. 598, March 1989.

#batman #batman 50th #detective comics #april 1989 #dc #dc comics #1989 #march #john beatty