DESTROY!! #1 COMPLETE ISSUE ORIGINAL ART MOCK-UP ISSUE BY SCOTT McCLOUD.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, November 20, 2024 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
36 - 11x15.125" artboards have pencil and ink/mixed media original art for the cover to cover story of Destroy!! #1, published by Eclipse Comics, November 1986. Art is by Zot! creator Scott McCloud and features an explosive, action-packed image of The Red Basher bursting through a concrete wall. Everything is hand drawn art, mostly in black markers. Front and back covers have been colored. Pages have been taped together at inner and outer margins w/masking tape and whole book can be unfolded and laid out as one giant piece of sequential art. Destroy!! was touted as "The Loudest Comic-Book in the Universe", with McCloud serving up readers a full 32 page issue slugfest between The Red Basher and Captain Maximum. Margins shows some scattered light soiling, but art remains clean and Exc.Comes with a slightly faded reading copy of the large format 11x15"comic this art was created for. This awesome mock-up has never come to market before. Gary and Dawn Guzzo Collection.
From scottmccloud.com: "After Zot! finished its first ten issue run in late '85, I took a year and a half break (not entirely voluntary, since the book was losing money at the time) and, apart from moving office furniture, I also decided to do a giant-sized one-shot filled with nothing but pure senseless violence from beginning to end.
I got the idea when I first heard people complaining about a Marvel comic called SuperBoxers and claiming that it was "nothing but senseless violence from beginning to end." I thought this sounded cool, but was disappointed, upon acquiring a copy, to discover that SuperBoxers included a plot, characterization, and other distractions. It wasn't PURE. Destroy!! was my attempt to get it right.
Destroy!! was half-jokingly credited by Alan Moore with getting the Image-era `90s started early."
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