Happy Birthday Carlo Pagulayan!

Some time back, in response to the increasingly grim, gritty, and nealry despondent state of comics characters and storylines, Marvel Comics published an all-ages series of books under the catch-all title of "Marvel Adventures". Among these, was "Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four". The stories were cool and upbeat, for all ages without dumbing anything down, and the art, initially by Carlo Pagulayan (with inks by Jeff Huet) was cool.

Since then, Carlo did the art for a storyline known as "Planet Hulk", and became quite well-known for it. We did have a number of pages for that series on sale at our site, but eager buyers have whittled that down to a single two-page spread from Hulk 93 (pages 21-22).
(Two notes--first, as always, pages shown here are for sale on our online store site, www.artandcomicsstore.com at the time they're posted. Second, you can click on the image to see a much larger version.)

But back then, he wasn't quite so well-known. We're currently auctioning some of his work from Marvel Adventures : Fantastic Four on eBay, (our ebay ID is originalcomicbookartsource ), with the rest on sale at our online store.

I thought I'd share some of the artwork here with you, partly to encourage people to shop, but also just to enjoy the high quality artwork!







For example, this page is from the very first issue! Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four #1, page 18, where the Thing and the Human Torch are under attack by some very familiar characters!

Where's Ripley when you REALLY need her??






















Here's another cool page--Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four 2, page 20.

It's a Big Honkin' Gadget to use on Annihilius




















Sometimes, people forget just how powerful the Invisible Woman is...not to mention she has a temper hotter than that of the Human Torch when her family is threatened, as the soon-to-be-airborne Klaw is about to learn!











I'd like to add that Carlo's birthday was last week, and we are selling this art on his behalf! So this might be a neat way for both of you to get a present!

Mike