(Continued from
The GUN! #3, 1990, Pt. 2)
"THE MOB'S REVENGE!"
(1991 version)
In many ways, this is where
The GUN!, as a series, began to take off.
When I originally wrote
GUN #3 in
1975, none of the
3
main regulars introduced in that episopde were given proper names.
That actually didn't come until a year-and-a-half later, when I decided
to start basing "
The New Big Boss", his "
Assistant Boss" and the guy who came to be known as the "
Task Force Leader", on myself, my best friend and a mutual friend who had first introduced us. During my Senior year in high school, "
Jim MacDonald" and "
Dan Grayson"--
along with a slew of supporting characters-- all got massively fleshed
out as complex, distinct personalities. It was easy. They were all
based on people I knew in real life!
When I got around to re-writing the early episodes in the early
90s,
I naturally applied that fleshing out to the characters, writing them
as they probably always should have been. The result was the stories
taking on the feeling of a sitcom. Basically,
THE GUN! became what you'd get if you crossed
THE UNTOUCHABLES with
GET SMART. Except, here, the bad guys were the main characters.
As with "
The Origin Of The GUN!" and "
Casino Of Evil", this story was also massively fleshed out. What had begun life with the simple question posed by my brother--
"How about if The GUN! got ambushed in a dead-end alley?"
--became a much-better story than it already was. More than anything,
this episode sets the tone for most of the ones to follow.
As with "
Casino Of Evil", this was re-written AS a "rough". Now, whereas the bulk of
GUN #2 was done as a tribute to artist
Gil Kane,
in this case, for many years before I actually did it, I had in mind
doing it as a tribute to a very different comics artist...
STEVE DITKO.
Pages 2 &
3, which serve as an epilogue to the previous story, continue the
Gil Kane swipes. After that-- it's
Ditko all the way.
Actually, there were
2 artists I was paying tribute to here at the same time. When I did the finished art, my goal to to create pages that would look like what you'd get if you had
Steve Ditko pencils, inked by
Joe Sinnott!
ENJOY!
THE GUN! #3 (1991 version)
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Don't go away! We'll be right back with the conclusion...
Story & Art Copyright (
C)
Henry R. Kujawa
All prominent characters are Trademarks of Henry R. Kujawa
Don't miss the 2nd PART of this... coming up next!!!
(Continued in
The GUN! #3, 1991, Pt. 2)
