Tom Palmer

Um, [smacks lips] very exciting.

Creators Roger Stern, artist, uh, John Buscema, finisher is Tom Palmer.

A stellar team at the top of their game doing one of the greatest Avengers stories, period.

Um, been great.

We start out here with this incredible splash page.

This reminds me of a moody splash page you would have seen from Gene Colan and Tom Palmer in Tomb of Dracula or something.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, this splash page here is a little bit different than what you get in some of these older comics.

first thing you do, really?

Apparently.

a remote section of transylvania and there is a crypt deep beneath an ancient castle he found a resting place of one of the one he sought the fabled lord of vampires dracula in his mad ambition he sought to attain power through controlling the lord but he hadn't reckoned with dracula's incredible hypnotic prowess and i will say this uh burn and uh our buddy here joe rubinstein they do a really good job on dracula here it's just you know a couple of panels but the one that's like close up on his face it looks very gene colin tom palmer dracula to me

oh yeah yeah it looks really good i really i really like that and this this backstory i really i mean it just sounds insane that you know you get peeved with your brother and the first thing you do is go seek out dracula dracula and nazis they go good together don't they okay

Avengers 3, 82.

Bob Harris and Tom Palmer.

Avengers Double Feature number four.

The Best of Marvel 1994 trade paperback.

Mm.

I don't remember if I talked to Tom Palmer much about it, 'cause Tom, Tom was a really great guy, but we almost never talked much anything.

[laughs] We didn't talk, talk much about comics.

Um, but I've tried to talk to Klaus about it, and Klaus is, like, so professional.

Mm.

I don't remember if I talked to Tom Palmer much about it.

'Cause Tom, Tom was a really great guy, but we almost never talked much anything.

We talk- [laughs] didn't talk, talk much about comics.

specific inkers.

You're Tom Palmer's.

In this instance, you're Bob Layton's.

You're Terry Austin's.

And that's great.

Yeah.

Also, Tom Palmer.

Tom Palmer had a very distinctive making style.

It's Walter Simonson is the penciler.

Inker is Thomas Palmer.

Lederer is John Morelli instead of Jack Morelli.

Colorist is Don Warfield.

That's nice.

Which the Grand Comics Database says is Scott Williams, Mike Farmer, Tom Palmer, Michael Baer, Joe Rubenstein, and Bob Viachek.

Wow.

Nice hodgepodge there.

Yeah.

Penciler John Buscema, Inker Tom Palmer, Letterer Christy Scheel, Letterer Jim Novak, and editors Mark Grunewald and Howard Mackey.

So my first question before we even get to this, do you think Roger Stern planned to do this issue or was someone like, oh, hey, by the way, there's a big gouge taken out of the earth.

We need an address in the last issue of Secret Wars, right? I bet this was foisted upon him.