Ms. Tree is the longest-running private eye series in American comics. Created by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty, the character first appeared in 1981. Here’s a house ad for the book from Renegade Press, 1986, with freshly-applied colour.
The lineart.
New colour.
The ad illustrated by Tony Salmons for Marvel’s Dakota North that precipitated the response from Collins and Beatty.
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