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“The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit”<\/strong> Week [<\/strong>written by Beau Smith & Chuck Dixon<\/strong> with art by Dan Brereton]: Day 5\u00a0@ the ZONE.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Today’s art\u00a0is an extremely rare piece by Dan Brereton<\/strong>\u00a0from a 1988<\/strong>\u00a0issue of The Comic Shop News<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It appeared with an article about “the return of a Golden Age<\/strong> hero” [The Black Terror<\/strong>]\u00a0scheduled to appear in Total Eclipse #3<\/strong> [a company crossover book] “who will then move into his own title in 1989<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n It’s interesting to note that the article said that “The Black Terror”<\/strong> would be co-written<\/strong> by\u00a0\u00a0Beau Smith<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Chuck Dixon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0[it was]\u00a0and “illustrated<\/strong>\u00a0by two artists<\/strong> new to Eclipse<\/strong>, Dan Brereton<\/a><\/strong> and Brandon Peterson<\/strong>” [it wasn’t].\u00a0 Dan Brereton<\/strong> did all of the art chores.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0e-mailed\u00a0Brandon<\/strong> to find out what happened and here is his response:<\/p>\n “I was given a tryout just out of High School by Beau that Beau liked, but Eclipse wanted one artist on the series and that was Dan, which was the very right decision to make at the time.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So that’s one small mystery solved, but here’s another: Who is the the character standing beside The Black Terror <\/strong>in today’s art?\u00a0 I believe it\u00a0is Beau Smith’s<\/strong> comic alter ego.\u00a0\u00a0 Beau<\/strong>, am I mistaken?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit” Week [written by Beau Smith & Chuck Dixon with art by Dan Brereton]: Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,61,56,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-comics","category-crime","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29159,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/29159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}