This is my take on Count Nefaria, for inclusion in the awesome Offical Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUX Edition Blog- [link] The idea is to redraw every character from the Deluxe edition of the Marvel Handbook, I've picked out a few others to do as well, but Nefaria's the first. I love this costume, designed by John Byrne back in the mid 70's for a three issue arc he drew of the Avengers (#164, 165, 166) Most of the choice characters from this blog project had already been claimed by other artists, but luckily The Count was still available...SCORE!
I thought Nefaria's outfit was awesome as well. Great colour combination, totally cool cape design and we got to see Superman fight the Avengers for a bit. The best bit is when he arrests Thor's hammer in mid stroke with one hand. Totally awesome!. (I even made my own costume for a convention long ago based on this design.)
Great observation......................if he had a kid that wanted to atone for his fathers evil deeds he'd already have a cool costume to do it in...............