The Cover is a...Tad...Misleading...
...about who the actual Space Hero is in this story from DC's Mystery in Space #113 (1980)!
Editor/writer Len Wein got the very busy Joe Kubert to contribute both the cover and the three-page story to the struggling 1980 revival of the sci-fi anthology Mystery in Space, which had been cancelled in 1966!
(Kubert did all the covers from the first new issue, #111, to #115.
The final two covers were by Jim Starlin and Dave Cockrum.)
But the main reason I'm running this piece is the superb coloring by the late Tatjana Wood, the first comic book colorist to receive national attention when she passed!
Her mastery of the pre-computer 64-color palette is beautifully-shown here both "inside the lines", where everything is clearly-separated within the panels, to her use of negative (white) space to emphasize Kubert's weightless humans and gremlins!
(Kubert did all the covers from the first new issue, #111, to #115.
The final two covers were by Jim Starlin and Dave Cockrum.)
But the main reason I'm running this piece is the superb coloring by the late Tatjana Wood, the first comic book colorist to receive national attention when she passed!
Her mastery of the pre-computer 64-color palette is beautifully-shown here both "inside the lines", where everything is clearly-separated within the panels, to her use of negative (white) space to emphasize Kubert's weightless humans and gremlins!
