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| Art by Alan Davis. |
From Alan Davis's website.
"The initial sketch for this Marvelman cover was a little too woolly and vague so Big Ben wasn't recognised during the approval process. Clearly visible in the final pencils I discovered there were legal issues preventing Big Ben appearing so he had to be removed. Rather than erasing the figure and risking damaging the page surface I drew the correction on a separate patch which I inserted after Mark had inked both parts." [Alan Davis]
The whole cover process - rough, pencils, inks (by Mark Farmer) and modified part - can be seen here.
The final illustration has been used as cover for Miracleman N. 4 (Marvel Comics).
So Marvel didn't have rights to put Big Ben on the cover but got the rights to include him in the issue? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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