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INFINITY GAUNTLET #1 (Jul 1991)
Marvel Comics
On May 21, 1991, the Mad Titan upended existence with a single click of his fingers, killing 50% of life, and leaving the Super Heroes of the Marvel universe with the greatest fight in history ahead of them. Led by the resurrected Adam Warlock and aided by primal cosmic forces, Earth's protectors entered cosmic warfare in a six-issue event written by Jim Starlin and featuring the art of George Perez and Ron Lim. And 28 years later, the reverberations of this one action are still echoing across the world!
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The biggest event of the year, signed by the writer!
Signed by the writer, Kurt Busiek Limited to only 200 in the entire
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Signed By by master artist George Perez with colorist Tom Smith!. Round 2
of the comic-book event of the year is here! The titanic team-up the
world has waited for continues as the threats that brought the heroes
together in the first issue tear the teams apart! Guest-starring every
character to ever have membership in the Avengers and the JLA!
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Round 2 of the comic-book event of the year is here! The titanic team-up
the world has waited for continues as the threats that brought the
heroes together in the first issue tear the teams apart! Guest-starring
every character to ever have membership in the Avengers and the JLA!
Each signed copy will be hand-numbered sealed with a DF Holo-Foil Sticker and includes a numbered certificate of authenticity!
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JLA/AVENGERS #1 SIGNED (X-World)
(Nov 2003)
DC Comics/Marvel Comics
Jay McKiernan: Now let’s get to the big one: JLA /
Avengers. This might just be the most anticipated book of the year, and
that’s saying a lot considering 1602 is coming out soon. How did this
project come about and how were you approached?
Kurt Busiek: JLA/AVENGERS was originally slated to come out in 1982 or
1983, but rather famously fell apart over editorial disagreements and
communication problems between Marvel and DC. Over the years since,
every now and then, either Marvel would approach DC about trying again,
or DC would approach Marvel, and each time the other side didn't want to
do it for one reason or another. So it kept not happening and it became
something of a holy grail for superhero buffs -- a legendary "lost
project." A few years ago, shortly after DC had approached Marvel again,
Joe Quesada became editor in chief at Marvel, and started looking into
why it hadn't been done. To Brevoort outlines for him the various
attempts over the years and why they'd fallen apart, and Joe said,
"Well, none of that applies now. Let's do it."
So Tom contacted whoever at DC had made the latest overture, and the project got rolling.
George Perez was the obvious and only choice as artist, since he'd been
the artist on it the first time around, he's considered one of the
all-time greats among superhero artists, and he was just coming off an
acclaimed run on AVENGERS. At the time, I was writing AVENGERS and Mark
Waid was writing JLA, so the easiest thing would be for the two of us to
co-write, but Mark had just signed an exclusive deal with CrossGen
about a week before JLA/AVENGERS became a go project, so the book got
offered to me solo. For which I will always be grateful to both Mark
Waid and Mark Alessi.
JM: Was it difficult to work on this book,
feeling the pressure because of all the expectations, or was it very
easy to get a handle on this mini-series?
KB: We knew that there was enormous expectation out there, but we also
knew that there was no way we were going to meet it all -- no matter
what we do, some readers are going to be disappointed. So we just made
sure we'd have enough room to do a big, sprawling project where we could
go places that maybe the readers weren't expecting, tried to come up
with a storyline worthy of the two teams, and stopped worrying about it.
The pressure's there whatever we do, so it's not too much of a factor.
Beyond that, I'm familiar with both teams, and am working with good
editors and a top-notch artist. So some of it was tricky, some was easy,
but we came up with what we think is a sweeping and enjoyable adventure
with a lot of scope, a lot of action, room for character stuff and a
few surprises. With any luck, the readers will have at least as much fun
with it as we did.
JM: Did the presence of George Perez as the
artist make this much easier? You had a great working relationship with
him on the Avengers and did that continue with this book?
KB: Absolutely. After three years of working with George, I have
enormous faith in his storytelling abilities -- I know that I can give
him pages I wouldn't dare give to another penciler, and he'll make them
work. I also know a lot about what he most likes to draw and what he
doesn't, and he knows that I trust him, that he can take the story and
rework it, staging it his way as long as it tells the underlying story.
So yeah, that familiarity and experience gave us a very solid grounding.
Plus, George is very much the 800-pound gorilla on this book -- polite
and considerate, but he's indispensable to the project, and having
George saying, "I want to do it this way" made it easier to set it up
the way we wanted it.
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