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I just again ran across another good Sub-Mariner story, that ran in MARVEL FANFARE 43, April 1989, by Bill Manlo, with beautiful art and colors by Mike Mignola and Craig Russell.

[Linked Image from milehighcomics.com]

Love that cover !

Here's the full issue online.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Marvel-Fanfare-1982/Issue-43?id=73368

Mantlo and Mignola also did another earlier Sub-Mariner story in MARVEL FANFARE 16 back in Sept 1984, that isn't nearly as nice.
https://viewcomiconline.com/marvel-fanfare-1982-issue-16/

Mignola's art made huge strides forward in quality during the 5 years between these 2 stories. It marks the point where Mignola made the transition from trying to exclusively be an inker, and left inking to become a penciller. Mignola in a COMIC BOOK ARTIST interview quotes Al Milgrom's "Editori-Al" from this issue, where Milgrom said of Mignola, "As an inker, you make a great penciller", that in the interview Mignola says was Milgrom's way of telling him You're a really shitty inker.
And once he switched to pencilling instead, Mignola's popularity really took off.

Some other early stuff by Mignola that really got my attention were some covers for the fanzine THE COMIC READER ( on issues 196, 203 and 212, circa 1981-1983. You can see the covers at the link )

And the 4-issue ROCKET RACCOON series in 1985, after which Mignola said he never had to struggle to get freelance assignments after again.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Rocket-Raccoon-1985/Issue-1?id=74218

And in 1988, Mignola's covers on BATMAN 426-429 for Starlin's "The Death of Robin" issues.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Batman-1940/Issue-426?id=18121

And Mignola's first solo writer/artist story in BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT 54, Nov 1993. Which Mignola describes as the birth of what became his HELLBOY work.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Batman-Legends-of-the-Dark-Knight/Issue-54?id=38554


Soon after which, Mignola ventured into his first HELLBOY miniseries in March 1994.
For which ongoing series work over the last 30 years, Mignola has achieved god status in the comics world for the massive universe of titles expanding from that first miniseries. Not to mention 3 successful Hellboy movies. ( Well actually TWO successful movies, and a third dud re-boot.)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Hellboy-Seed-of-Destruction