“As I’ve mentioned, I was recently the victim of a robbery — and what really hurts is that I know who did it and it was someone I trusted a lot and not for a short time.”
— Mark Evanierhttps://www.newsfromme.com/2026/04/07/more-about-the-missing-masterpieces/
A robbery implies the theft occurred while Mark was present. I’m thinking it’s probably more likely that he is the victim of a burglary, committed while he was away at WonderCon.
Here’s another uncomfortable question. I was told the originals for one of the two Steranko/Sinnott Captain America centerfold spreads had been seen at Evanier’s house. When Steranko heard this, he was not pleased, because he had promised those pages to Joe. Jim and Joe had a running joke forever, about Joe having to ink Jim’s pencils over the Christmas holiday, because he was so late delivering the pages.
I was hoping to see that art in the second volume of Steranko’s Artist’s Edition, to know whether the originals or stats had been scanned. But the book has been in limbo since IDW lost the Marvel rights. I haven’t heard if Image has been able to secure them for Scott Dunbier.
The artwork from Fantastic Four #84 was stolen from Marvel offices before 1980, according to the inventory done that year by staffer Irene Vartonoff. That means it was not part of the handful of Silver Age pages Marvel eventually returned to Jack Kirby.
This raises uncomfortable questions of who at Marvel stole the pages and also of how they eventually came into Evanier’s possession.