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Artist's Firsts
Featured Category of Select Favorite Artists and Where They Got Their Start Utilize the Key Collector Comics eBay Links to contribute to the continued development of this resource.
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- First interior art by Jim Lee at Marvel Comics
- Jim Lee provided an illustration for the 'Eel' character profile
- *Jim Lee's first published artwork for Marvel is widely considered to be Alpha Flight #51 which he fully illustrated but Lee contributed one panel of art for this issue prior to Alpha Flight
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- First professional artwork in the comic book industry by Mark Bagley
- *Bagley's art previously appeared in a 1983 Marvel Try-Out book which was a contest for artists
- First published artwork by Dave Johnson (back-up story)
- First written work in comics by Cliff Biggers, co-creator of the Comic Shop News weekly newspaper (Cliff is also credited for the plot of Boffo Laffs #2 with scripts by Ward Batty, the other co-creator of Comic Shop News)
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- First cover art by Alex Schomburg
- 1st appearance of John Steele, Weapon 0 the original Super Soldier created from what would later be known as the Weapon X Program
- 1st appearance and origin of Fiery Mask
- 1st appearance of Monako, the Prince of Magic
- 1st appearance of Detective Doc Denton
- 1st appearance of the Texas Kid
- 1st appearance of Phantom of the Underworld
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- First cover art by Clayton Crain, signed Klayton Krain
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- First interior art by Terry Moore
- Full black & white issue of pin-up art by various creators featuring anthropomorphic characters in swimsuits
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