leading from
a) On
the 7th of July, 2015 after seeing the curving forms of Giger's
painting and O'Bannon's sketch on taken from the Rocket Blast
Comicolletor magazine, on the same page in an article on David Spada's
Monsterlegacy blog,
it dawned on me on the same evening that I suddenly decided that it was
likely that Dan O'Bannon had taken Giger's Necronom IX and transformed
it into an insect like monster as an early sketch for a monster for
Alien, that Giger must have seen O'Bannon's drawing of the alien and
impressed enough with that transformed it back into a Giger merging it
with the form of Delville's paintings. It seems as if certain points on
the O'Bannon drawing have manifested similarities with forms in Jean
Delville's Treasures of Satan for the purpose of tempting Giger to fuse
them together, and the bend in the wrist of O'Bannon's creature's pincer
is incorporated into the bend of the wrist of Giger's creature.
(See: Necronom IX (1976) and also The Biomechanoid that O'Bannon Wanted
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| Jean Delville's Treasures of Satan |
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Alien (Winged) / Alien Monster IV by H.R.Giger
(Homage to Jean Delville?) |
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O'Bannon's possibly Charcoal sketch, Phobos #1, Summer 1977
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b) Giger's
Alien Monster IV inherits the jawbone like mandibles and the ribbing
along O'Bannon's creature's neck become the ribbing along the side of
Alien Monster IV's cranium. The collar stretching down from the back of
the cranium of O'Bannon's creature became the front of the neck on the
Alien Monster IV but transformed into something sinewy.
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Necronom IX, O'Bannon's early alien drawing, and Giger's Alien Monster IV
Yellow represents the head features.
Pink represents the tusks, pincers and beak and the shape of the cranium
Blue represents the ribbing and its developed relationship to the curvature of the head |
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| Necronom IX: See above for key to outline colours |
c) The
curve flowing between the ribbed neck and the collar of O'Bannon's
creature would become the curve that would stretch along the elongated
Alien Monster IV's neck marking the base of the familiar dome along the
top of the head in the manner of the design of the monster of Alien. The pincer forelimb from O'Bannon's creature becomes
the beak of Giger's creature.
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| O'Bannon's Alien creature: See above for key to outline colours |
d) The
long tusks at the front of O'Bannon's creature merge in with the
position of the sheet of material curving down to the front of Satan
character on the left of the image, and together become the pathway for
where Giger stretches the head downwards in a curve. Where
there is an impression on O'Bannon's creature's cranium where Necronom
IX's ear would have been, it transforms into the shoulder of the arm of
Alien Monster IV.
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| Alien Monster IV: See above for key to outline colours |
e) Perhaps
a few more things ought to be pointed out about the relationships
between the shapes in the images but Giger really only used it as an
agreeable place to start off without having to reference its origins
without any definition.
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| Comparisons between Treasures of Satan, O'Bannon's sketch and Giger's Alien Monster IV |
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