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.