Cool Stuff: Marvel Portraits By Mike Mitchell At Mondo Gallery

By Germain LussierApril 18, 2014 7:00 am EST

We love superheroes, you love superheroes, most everyone loves superheroes. Superhero movies have become so incredibly popular, sometimes it's easy to forget their roots on the ink-covered pages of comic books. If it wasn't for men like Stan Lee or and Bill Finger, we'd never have movies like The Dark Knight or The Avengers.

To pay respect to those original iterations of comic book characters, the Mondo Gallery in Austin TX has begun to reveal images from their next show, Mike Mitchell x Marvel x Mondo. It features over 60 different portraits of Marvel Comics characters from Spider-Man, X-Men, and Avengers stories as well as many more by popular artist Mike Mitchell. The show opens April 25 and stays on display through May 17. Below, check out just a fraction of the Mike Mitchell Mondo work being released next week.

Here is a gallery of Mike Mitchell's Mondo Marvel work:

These portraits will mostly be $60 each with runs varying from under 100 to over 200. It depends on each piece.

And here's how Mondo decorated the gallery for the show:

Mondo Gallery Modok

Yes. That's Modok.

Finally, here's the press release.

Mondo announces "Mike Mitchell x Marvel x Mondo" a comics-themed show featuring artist Mike Mitchell's iconic portraits of Marvel's huge stable of heroes and villains, running from April 25^th through May 17^th. The characters of The Avengers, X-Men and Spider-man will be represented along with many others from Marvel's incredible library. The opening night event will be Friday, April 25^th from 7 – 10pm at the Mondo Gallery, located at 4115 Guadalupe St. in Austin, TX. Artist Mike Mitchell will be in attendance.

"My love for Marvel Comics was an integral part of growing up. Not just the comics, but the action figures, video games and cartoons. My intention with this show was to take those characters out of their action-oriented world and give them a moment of silence to catch their breath. There's a humanizing quality to that which I find extremely interesting. This has easily been the most ambitious project I've ever taken on, and it's due in part to my love for their universe; which is fictional by definition, but real in my mind and in the minds of others," said Mitchell.