Cool man.

Thanks,Chris....yeah,just thought people would be interested to se the original...

No prob man. Understandable.

Good one.

Let me tell you this:

1, Your layout is tremendously better
2, Your expressions rock
3, Your inking is far better than this crap

and so,
4, You rock

Thank you!

to be fair as far as I know Charlton paid crap and the artist involved didnt labor over it as an act of artistic love. he drew it to pay the bills. A lot of the non dc and Marvel work by the smaller publishers was just something to go through as fast as you could.The faster you did it,the faster you could move on to the next paycheck.

True...very true....I've been in that exact same position many,many times myself....But I have and will always put 110% into everything I draw,whether the pay is large or small...that's how I roll,as the young folks say.

So true! In the original version of the comic, the prisoners in the "dungeon of despair" and Cobra's henchmen both look like ordinary guys just hanging out. But Rusty, you made the prisoners look like pathetic victims and the henchmen look like badass thugs; the original artist should have done both these things, but didn't. Every single aspect of your artwork is superior to the original; the dungeon looks creepier, Thunderbolt looks tougher, the fight scene has more (excuse the expression) "punch". Even the one adequate aspect of the original, Cobra's facial expression when Thunderbolt appears, is improved in your version. In short, great job! But don't go getting a swelled head or anything.

Oh, I forgot to say: Too bad David Schmoker didn't ask you to rewrite the script as well, Rusty; it really coukld have used your help.

Well,as far as the script goes...I did trim a few words here and there just to make it less verbose....

No danger of that,I'm way too hard on myself to get a swelled head...

Agree. Look at the henchmen. "All hail!" an their faces are like asleep.

it's interesting how those ancient comic artists didn't have a clue about expression, and hoy gay those heroes used to look. At first I thought he as being attacked rather than attacking in the last panel lol.

Yours looks better and all those aspects.

Thank you!

Nice. Yer version is much better.

Thanks,DW!

Your welcome.

Yours definitely carries more impact and expression to it, although I wonder how many commenting negatively about this are considering the era it was posted in and the difficulty in getting away with portraying such suffering in comics without falling prey to the hammer of censorship. I think they were left having to convey much of it in the text rather than in the art sadly. It's difficult to compare such things without considering the context of the time both pieces were created in.

That's very true,plus the fact that these guys were cranking out comics very quickly and probably for not very good pay.....

Is the pay that much better for comic artists today compared to then? How much do the conditions then differ from now?

highly varies from company to company.If its not DC,Marvel or liscenced work from Dark horse then the only way yo make any money is for yourself and even then its tough to sell enough copies to make much money.Not many americans buy comic books .

Here I thought they bought quite a bit (although not quite as many as during WWII admittedly), although nowadays we've too much a public perception that they're just for kids that didn't exist back then which hurts sales to adults who have the false notion that a story told in a comic format would be just for kids.

I agree with  LeChevalier, you have improved on the original quite a bit.

Thank you!

Your version featured superbly-vibrant colors compared to the original reference source

Thanks so much!

Nice to see the original you honored with your rendition of your work. Which is also quite well done.

Thanks!