Here is the second drawing of Johnny Saturn ever, and the costume was coming into focus.  The black rubber gorget or neck-guard makes its first appearance, as does the Saturn logo at his throat and on his belt.  At this stage of the game, I was toying around with scale armor for him.

At this point in Johnny Saturn’s design, the black rubber was popping up in insets all over his costume.  He is armed with a tonfa, or police billy club, on his leg, and his body armor is chain mail.  It’s interesting to note that at this stage I was toying with brass knuckles of a more traditional type.

Above and the left, you can see one of my early attempts to actually draw a body that was covered with burns, knife slashes, and bullet holes.  Eventually I would get this worked out to a fine science, but at this stage it was still an exploration for me.