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Tomb of Dracula #43 - mis-attributed Bernie Wrightson cover
Reviewed by Ted F
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Reviewed by Ted F
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I don't think Wrightson did this alone. The female's hair is not at all his style, nor is the drapery on the Count. He probably wanted to foreshortened the arm, but another artist 'corrected' that when inking Drac's cape.
Many of the Marvel covers in this period were modified in-house, usually by art director John Romita Sr or Marie Severin.
It wasn't unusual to see even Kirby's Captain America or Thor faces altered.
In this case, the woman's face is clearly Romita.
The left arm and cape isn't in Wrightson's style, though the hand is.
My first thought was a Romita revision, too. There's too many careless aspects to this image for it to be all Wrightson. Good post!
I believe this is solo-Wrightson, but as others have mentioned, alterations by Romita are apparent. It is also possible that this looks like someone other than Wrightson on pencils because he was following a cover preliminary by another artist, likely Romita or Dave Cockrum, which was the standard at that time.
Wrightson is also solo credited as artist in The Comic Reader # 126.
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