Credits box
Cover artist credit research
We reconstruct painter, inker, and colourist lines when a Marvel NFT variant tile hides the original print team behind a marketplace username.
Marketplace tiles for Marvel NFT comic variant covers sometimes list a drop name and a serial, then stop. The paper comic that inspired the art usually carried a crowded credits box. This service rebuilds that box from indicia scans, interview citations, and publisher solicitation text.
Work begins with the visual: we match cape folds, city skylines, and lettering styles against print covers. When a digital frame is a crop, we note which character group or title masthead was cut away, because that cut often hides a signature.
The finished brief is a one-page credit line plus a short caution if the match is probable rather than confirmed. We will not invent a signature to complete a set. If two painters share a similar inked cityscape, both names appear with the reason for the split.
Collectors use these briefs when they caption a personal index or when they argue, politely, about who painted a holofoil analogue. Telephone the Moorgate desk if you already have a screenshot; we work from stills, not from wallet connections.