Good Grief, Savage Dragon!

Savage Dragon is a superhero work that is a singular vision – creator Erik Larsen has done 252 issues so far. (There was one issue with a guest creative team as part of an everyone-do-each-other’s-book event at the publisher… but Erik, uncomfortable with that, went back and did a different issue with the same number so that he could have a consecutive run.) The latest issue, where he did pastiches of various comic strips within the Savage Dragon concept, proved popular enough that the issue is getting a second printing… and as such things are done these days, they are giving this reprint a different cover, to encourage hardcore collectors who already had the first printing to also buy the second.

And this is the cover that second printing gets:

…which is, of course, a reference to this classic Fawcett cover:

Contact your local comic book store and get them to order you a copy!

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