Pulled From My Files #46: ELEKTRA

Images © Marvel.

Some time in 1994 or 1995 I was asked by Marvel to submit logo designs for a new Elektra series. I think I was originally asked by editor Matt Idelson, and by the time I sent sketches in they were going to Ralph Macchio. I’m not positive on the year or timing, but as a new Elektra series came out in 1996, it seems likely the work was intended for that. Possibly it was an earlier series attempt that didn’t get published. My first sketch, above, was very pointy and dangerous, as Marvel usually wanted at the time.

Version 2 is mostly the same letters except, as noted, for a different A.

Version 3 remained pointy but went a different way. I think this is the most interesting of the three, though a little harder to read. I picked up the diamonds from the earlier logo below.

When the series began in 1996 it used a variation of the logo seen previously on the ELEKTRA ASSASSIN eight-issue series from 1986-87, a decision that made marketing sense. I have no other records or versions in my files, so I assume I was paid a kill fee and moved on to other things.