The mid eighties saw a boom (shortly followed by an inevitable bust) in independent publishing, spurred on by the rise of the direct market. Chicago was a hub of comics activity at the time, with their popular comic con spawning First Comics amongst other newcomers. Joe Judt, a former fanzine editor and acquaintance of Gillis, decided to get in on the action, setting up the short lived Hot Comics . Following their brilliant run on Micronauts , Peter Gillis and Kelley Jones were itching to work together once more. Surprisingly their dream project was... Iron Man . As there was little hope of Marvel letting either of them near their A lister, Gillis soon came up with his own typically twisted twist on the man in armour formula. What if the guy was stuck in the suit permanently? And what if nobody could tell who he really was underneath, a Russian or American astronaut? Gillis originally considered the resulting concept Chrome for the initial incarnation of Jim Shooter's New Univer...
Being a reasonably chronological retrospective re-read of writer Peter B. Gillis' published comic books.