Drawing of a Deathlock comic book page owned by Dwayne McDuffie: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A framed, colored drawing of a Deathlok comic book page owned by Dwayne McDuffie. The drawing has five panels. In the panels the comic book character named, Deathlok, is talking to a military officer holding a young girl. Deathlok has a partially metal face and metal arms and legs. He is wearing a red shirt. Each panel has at least one speech bubble. In them Deathlok is explaining why he won’t hurt the others and why he is now on their side. The bottom right panel shows a closeup of Deathlok’s next to a blue and white image of a man standing with a woman and a young boy. The speech bubble accompanying this panel explains that Deathlok was once a man named Michael Collins. An inscription in the bottom left corner reads [For my Buddy / Dwayne, who’s / Always There for / Everyone! / M[illegible] W[illegible]91].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1990; signed 1991
• Illustrated by: Denys Cowan, American, born 1961
• Written by: Dwayne McDuffie, American, 1962 - 2011
• Subject of: Rick Magyar, American, born 1954
• Subject of: Gregory Wright, American
• Subject of: Joe Rosen, American, 1920 - 2009
• Subject of: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., American, founded 1939
• Owned by: Dwayne McDuffie, American, 1962 - 2011
• Type: drawings
• Type: comic strips
• Medium: ink on paper, wood, glass
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 16 1/4 × 12 1/2 × 1 in. (41.3 × 31.8 × 2.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Comics and graphic novels
• Object number: 2019.96.21
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charlotte (Fullerton) McDuffie
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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