The reason why Dane still had the original covers to The Eradicators #3 and #4 is because he tricked publisher Kris Silver, plain and simple.
Dane told me how it was standard practice at Silverwolf for the artists to make their own arrangements to have their cover art colored. What Dane did was to make a photocopy of the piece and have that colored instead of the original. When he turned in his pages, Silver just looked through the stack and saw that the cover was colored, and that was that.
“Dyes on a photocopy basically, which is what I gave to Silver. I had the art…he didn’t know any better, most of the covers from (Silverwolf) you won’t find in the condition they should be in, which is black and white, because he had the artists paint over their originals because Silver did not know any different. So he got mine and thought he had gotten the originals. But these are the originals.”
“The cover was the first thing I did because he needed it to advertise on the back of issue 2. I had finished the penciling it and had left it on my drawing board at the studio. When I came back a couple of days later, and it was inked with a note saying ‘Dane, this was fun we should work together again’. That was my initial meeting with Tim Vigil.”
I asked about Tim Vigil, “He was fast, precise…Vigil had reached the level, but all of us we were just kind of breaking in…Vigil was accomplished, he was the reason why Silver, I believe, if he had any credibility…he gave Silver some credibility.”
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