Part of the images DC sent over for the Hollywood Reporter story about John Romita Sr. doing the variant for Superman #34, but it didn’t run with the piece so I’m sharing it here – the uncolored piece by Romita Sr. and Klaus Janson.

I said this on Twitter, but being able to talk to both Romita Sr. and Romita Jr. on the same call was one of the most genuinely charming experiences I’ve had in however many years I’ve been doing this job. The two together were just wonderfully sweet; you could hear the love the two had for each other in the banter that dominated the call (There were only a couple of quotes used in the piece, but we talked for about ten minutes).

When we started the call, Romita Jr. hadn’t seen the art at all, and didn’t know that Janson had inked it. When I mentioned that, he just lit up. “Pops! You didn’t tell me you got Klaus to ink it, that’s great!” He got the piece during the call, and just praised the hell out of it. Romita Sr. also gave his son into trouble for false modesty. It was a really, genuinely wonderful experience.