Paul Gulacy, a comic book artist instantly synonymous with spies thanks to his stellar work on titles like
James Bond 007: Serpents Tooth and
Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, has revealed a new piece
on his website that will be of particular interest to fans of the genre. The commission recreates Bob Peak's famous poster art for
In Like Flint with Marvel spy heroes like Nick Fury, Black Widow (
a la Maud Adams), Shang-Chi, Clive Reston and Leiko Wu. I particularly love seeing Fury in the Flint pose, as James Coburn would have certainly made an excellent Nick Fury at one time! (His role in
Hudson Hawk, though not patched, actually feels of a piece to some degree with the Fake Nick Furies that populated filmdom prior to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, like Charlton Heston in
True Lies, Angelina Jolie in
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and a pre-Fury Sam Jackson in
xXx.) Interestingly, Gulacy drew a spot-on Coburn as the hero of a horror comic that ran in
Eerie Magazine in 1979. His epic espionage saga
Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu (written by frequent collaborator Doug Moench) is currently (
finally!) being reprinted by Marvel in
massive hardcover Omnibus editions, which are worth every penny of their somewhat steep price tag. Here's the iconic original poster that inspired this awesome painting:
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