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Bob Layton is a veteran comic book creator, best known as the co-creator of Iron Man's Jim Rhodes – War Machine – at Marvel, Huntress at DC Comics, and the Valiant line, including X-O Manowar, Ninjak, Bloodshot and Archer & Armstrong But he has come smack bang up against the opaque structures that are social[...]

Bob Layton is best known for his work on Marvel Comics titles such as Iron Man and Hercules, co-creating War Machine He co-founded Valiant Comics with Jim Shooter, co-creating X-O Manowar, and later became Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President The upcoming Armor Wars is based on his work for Marvel But it seems that Dynamite Entertainment will[...]

Bob Layton has had the following piece of original artwork "go missing" in transit when shipping from Korea, where he now lives, to the USA by Fed Ex He tells me, "Two weeks ago, I shipped out five completed sketch covers to my CGC rep in the States, along with some of my comic page art[...]

Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 (May 1963), Skrulls in Fantastic Four #2 (January 1962), SHIELD in Strange Tales #135 (1965) Bob Layton – co-creator of James Rhodes in Iron Man #118 (1979) Stan Lee – co-creator of Nick Fury, Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 (May 1963), , Skrulls in Fantastic Four #2 (January 1962), SHIELD in[...]

Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 (May 1963), Skrulls in Fantastic Four #2 (January 1962), SHIELD in Strange Tales #135 (1965) Andy Lanning – co-creator of Agent Keller, Revolutionary War Alpha and Omega (2014) Bob Layton – co-creator of James Rhodes in Iron Man #118 (1979) Stan Lee – co-creator of Nick Fury, Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos #1[...]

Any further suggestions in the comments are most welcome… With Special Thanks To: Brian Michael Bendis, John Byrne, Alan Coswill, Jim Craig, Peter David, Ben Dunn, Rich Elson, David Finch, Gary Frank, Kevin Gunstone, Niko Henrichon,  Jack Kirby, Andy Lanning, Bob Layton, Stan Lee, Kenny Martinez, David Michelinie, Christopher Priest, Roy Thomas, Robbie Thompson, Leinil Francis[...]

The Tampa Film Commission is launching a week-long series of events for Tampa Bay resident, comic creator and publisher Bob Layton An apprentice to Wally Wood, he is best known for writing and drawing Iron Man and Hercules for Marvel Comics, co-creating the team X-Factor, as well as working on Batman  at DC Comics, co-founding[...]

Bob Layton posted to Facebook a couple of days ago, after posting a number of related Iron Man piece over recent weeks He writes "Now it can be revealed! I've been absent from daily commissions because I've been working on this special project: four, double-page spreads of the Iron Man Hall of Iron, measuring 88"[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 10 most-read stories yesterday Today's Justice League #39 On Whether Doomsday Clock is DC Canon or Not (Spoilers) The Truth About Professor X, in Today's Dawn of X Comics – X-Force #6, New Mutants #6, Fallen Angels #6 and X-Men #5 Spoilers The Return of The Children[...]

Vaughan and Wyatt Cenac on Saga: Compendium One at A Shop Called Quest, Los Angeles, California,7-10pm. Marin Comics Fest presents Mat Heagerty, Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon, California 4-5pm. Bluefall Graphic Novel signing by Andrew Trainor at Golden Apple Comics, Los Angeles, California, 10am. Dan Gorman signing Rejected – Dead Girl, Adam's Action Figures & Comics, Edinburg, Ohio,[...]

And artist Bob Layton provided a couple of covers to the effort, drawing a subscription variant for Rom #2 and the regular cover for Rom #5. But it seems there was more Rom plans for Layton which, for whatever reason, never got used Layton took to Twitter to show off the unused work: Today, I'm showcasing the[...]

Next was a Rob Liefeld book covering New Mutants, Deadpool, and Wolverine issues he did that featured Deadpool. After that was a Bob Layton Iron Man book, covering Layton's various runs on Iron Man Lastly was another Bill Sienkiwicz release After the last year's New Mutant book sold out as fast as it did, but not[...]

This is the Larry's Comics exclusive retailer variant for X-O Manowar #1 by Bob Layton, with a 500 print run The The relaunch series for Valiant by Matt Kindt and Tomas Giorello with Aric of Darcia, ancient barbarian turned cosmic warrior, the X-O Manowar The character was created by Jim Shooter and Bob Layton, and has been[...]

By Olly MacNamee Having hotfooted it away from a riveting seminar/workshop on storytelling in comics with Dr Who comic book and storyboard artist Mike Collins, I was already running late to meet up with Bob Layton, to find him holding court, luckily, with some friends of mine Graciously accepting of my apologies we somehow started talking[...]

Being able to listen to the likes of Joe Rubinstein, regaling the fans with his stories of fallouts with Gil Kane, or Bob Layton bombastically reveal his super-power behind his success: business sense in spades, was a great way to spend my afternoon. Rubinstein, a laidback New Yorker, spoke of his career to date His time[...]

By Joshua Stone I was very excited to attend the Spotlight on Bob Layton panel, and I am glad to say it did not disappoint Layton took the stage along with his friend since college Michael Uslan, and put together an informative and humorous panel The two met at Indiana University, where Layton and Roger Stern,[...]

Woodward, Neal Adams, Mark Brooks, Gary Erskine, Gary Frank, David Gibbons, Stephanie Hans, Bob Layton, David Lloyd, Clay Mann, Taki Soma, Elias Chatzoudis, Bill Doran, Mark Farmer, Lee Garbett, Klaus Janson, Paul Levitz, Mike Norton, Tim Seeley, Bill Sienkiewicz, John Watson, Chrissie Zullo, Charlie Adlard, Mahmud Asrar, Lee Bermejo, Ian Churchill, Yaya Han, Jeremy Haun, Emanuela Lupacchino, Michael  Avon Oeming, Mike Ploog, John Romita Jr and Jamie Tyndall. I'll be there, definitely all day Saturday[...]

I don't think I got it new, but I remember picking up Iron Man #133 (published April 1980) and seeing a classic dramatic cover. The issue was written by David Michelinie and drawn by Bob Layton Whenever I think of Iron Man, he looks like a Layton drawing to me and I read everything Iron Man[...]

Below are the new covers by Rob Liefeld and Bob Layton along with the order qualifications. FOC Promotion #1: Any retailer who maintains or increases their current orders of DOCTOR SPEKTOR #1 [any combination] can order one (1) DOCTOR SPEKTOR #1 LIEFELD COLOR RARE REORDER Incentive edition for every five (5) DOCTOR SPEKTOR #1 orders placed.. FOC[...]

Bob Layton draws three Solar Man Of The Atom subscription covers for Dynamite Layton, who was principally involved in the Valiant revival of the character in the nineties, has been grabbed by Dynamite to give a little Valiant flair to their revivals of the Gold Key character, reserved for the Subscription Covers, intended to[...]

Iron Man Redux, or Iron Man Forever, is planned to be Bob Layton and David Michelinie's latest Iron Man story Or it was at one point at least Now it seems that it has been bottom-drawered. But artist Dave Ross/strong> has been posting pages from what it would have been… he writes; The most recent project on[...]