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Artist Frank Cho's cool scene of Spider-Man clutching an iPad as he dangles over a fight ended up putting the web-slinger much closer to the action than the artist originally intended.
A tight deadline from Marvel Comics and Cho's faulty guess about the size of the Spider-Man and Wolverine logo left him scrambling to fix the image, a variant cover for the iPad version of the comic.
Working fast to get the artwork ready for a Comic-Con International debut in the Marvel Comics app, Cho produced the image based on detailed descriptions from Marvel.
"I submitted my pencil drawing and proceeded to ink the image before the official approval was given, since deadline was super-tight," Cho told Wired.com in an e-mail.
"When I got the approval, the cover was completely inked and finished," he said. "Unfortunately, Marvel wanted Spider-Man lowered to make room for the logo. (It was my fault. I didn't know how tall the logo was going to be.)"
No superhero saved the day: This time, it was Photoshop to the rescue.
"I lowered Spider-Man in Photoshop and delivered it before the deadline. And I completely forgot about the cover," Cho said.
"Couple of months later at San Diego Comic-Con, I was floored to see my Spider-Man image from the cover on one entire side of the Marvel booth. It was awesome."
Cho posted his original black-and-white artwork, pictured at top, on his Apes and Babes website Wednesday.
"I don’t know how many of this variant cover was printed," Cho said of the corrected, color version on his website. "So good luck finding them for all you complete-ists out there."
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