Lost Spirits of Artwork

I realize that it's been a while since I've posted any new content, and for that I apologize.  I've been taking some time away from blogging/reviewing comics the last few weeks to deal with some personal stuff (not the least of which is impending eye surgery on the 23rd of August, yikes!), so that's why Vengeance Unbound has been relatively quiet of late.

Don't worry, though, because the Inner Demons podcast is still going strong, and in fact we just recorded the 11th episode last night! There's going to be a very cool creator interview in the next ID episode, so everyone be on the lookout for it when it's posted this weekend!  

And, just because I don't want to go TOO long without spotlighting something here on the blog, I thought I'd post a few pieces of artwork for everyone to enjoy.  These were all covers that had originally been commissioned for publication, but for various reasons never saw the light of day.  If this is the first time you're seeing them, awesome!  Hope you enjoy!


This first piece of art is from Salvador Larroca from his time as Ghost Rider artist in the mid 1990s.  Specifically, this was originally the cover for Ghost Rider (1990) # 65, the conclusion of the "Ghost Rider In Chains" story-arc.  That issue's cover (and contents) were altered last minute when the book was drafted into the "Over the Edge" crossover, but the original cover art made its way online.  Awesome!


Next comes this piece from Trent Kaniuga, the artist on the Ghost Rider: The Hammer Lane mini-series.  This art piece was originally the cover for the follow-up miniseries "Ghost Rider: Redux" that was in the works by "Hammer Lane" creative team Devin Grayson, Kaniuga, and inker Danny Miki.  While the series never made it to publication, this fantastic piece of art survived!


Marko Djurdevic was the cover artist during Jason Aaron's run on Ghost Rider in 2008, and this was an unused cover piece by him that was scrapped when the art direction went in a more humorous tone.  There are several other unused cover drawings by Djurdevic, all of which can be seen in the Ghost Rider by Jason Aaron Omnibus!


Finally, there's this awesome cover drawing for Spectacular Spider-Man # 207 from 1994, which was originally supposed by a direct tie-in to the "Siege of Darkness" crossover event!  When the story content changed and Ghost Rider was dropped as the issue's guest-star, the cover had to be scrapped.  Still, it's an awesome piece of artwork!

If anyone has any other unused Ghost Rider cover images they'd like to send my way, please do so and I'll include them here on the blog!

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