Star Wars Special: C-3PO #1, June 2016
Where he goes, trouble follows.
Many great variant covers exist for this Star Wars C-3PO one-shot, including this beautifully detailed version by Reilly Brown. But one of my other favorites — and, unfortunately, I don’t have a scan — never made it to print.
The cover came from the imagination of my pal Mike McKone. Marvel commissioned it as an exclusive variant, paid Mike for it, had it approved by Lucasfilm and then… in the ongoing game of musical chairs cover variants (at all the publishers), it became the odd man out.
Mike and I both tried tracking a published version down for years, as Marvel told him it actually was published, but ultimately that turned out to be an inadvertent red (golden?) herring.
If he still has it when I see him again, I will photograph it and add it to the blog later. It’s fun, and I would own it if it had actually been published.
