Does anyone know who did the art on p.28 (see picture below) for SW #47 “Droid World”. The first page only lists Infantino as the artist (which is quite clear from the art itself) and Gene Day as the inker. But p.28 (the second-to-last page) is clearly drawn by someone else with a noticeably different art style. I’ve had the Norwegian version of this issue since I was a kid, and it has always really bugged me.
(PS. This is from the Norwegian version. I have the American version as well but I’d already scanned the Norwegian one recently, plus the art is untouched and the colours are pretty much the same in both versions anyway.)
I don’t have the issue in front of me, but I always assumed that page was Gene Day. I recall a strip he did somewhere amongst the Conan stuff that looked like this. I’m assuming an Infantino page went missing and Gene quickly flew solo for this one. I could be wrong though…
That would make a lot of sense, and having just googled Gene Day’s art it does seem to match the style from the odd page in Droid World. It’s also quite similar to a panel on p.5 which seems kind of like a blend between Infantino’s style and the p.28 style. So you’re probably right about Gene Day having had to either replace a page or cover for Infantino at some point.
(I’m also quite surprised that this art discrepancy is neither explained, or even mentioned, on Wookieepedia, as they’re usually quite thorough about these things.)