Friday, February 6, 2015

2005 Comic-Con International: San Diego Souvenir Book art by Marty Salsman

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Marty Salsman is clearly a Martian Manhunter fan, as his art has turned up on the blog before, a piece that he's since colored. Salsman even co-produced seven pages of a John Jones story, “Searching in the Dark,” linked below. Salsman was published in the SDCC convention book on J'onn J'onzz's 50th birthday, and he showed it off here, but I felt such an involved piece for such an auspicious occasion deserved a larger presentation. Note the cameo by Lil' Archie, who was also turning 50, so I'm not so sure the descriptive should have still applied.
"One of the truly unsung heroes of the DC universe, he's been around since 1955 predating the Silver-Age by just one year. I'm truly heartbroken DC has decided to kill off this character. On a brighter note the young writer and fellow deviantART member Dahila Mockery(give her a shout, she's done a great job) and myself have decided to pay tribute to this awesome DC hero! Set in the mid-1950's before he's even met any other super-heroes, he was a detective for the police and a private investigator par excellant. Page 1 of 15 of our story, I hope you like it. A colorized version will follow soon."
“Searching in the Dark”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you heard about the Martian Mamhunter solo?

Anonymous said...

Not related to the article, but a Martian Manhunter solo series was announced! What are you thoughts?

Marty Salsman said...

Hello, I'm Marty Salsman. When I posted this DC had killed our buddy off(during the Blackest Night story arch) but the new 52 has him pretty active, he was resurrected as a White Lantern as well. I've been experimenting with different illustrative techniques and hope to re-do and add to the Mockery story soon.

Diabolu Frank said...

If you run a custom blog search under your name, you'll find we've featured you a time or two already...