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Post by james on Jun 3, 2022 4:58:19 GMT -5
I was reading some 1969 Avengers and was again blown away by the art. It made me go through the Marvel titles of 1969 and man what a year.
For me John Buscema on Avengers and Neal Adams on X-men.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 5:23:15 GMT -5
Buscema on Avengers and Kirby on Thor. I think Thor was a great outlet for Kirby's epic creativity, and love how his style had developed by that point.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 3, 2022 5:29:47 GMT -5
Buscema and Adams for me, too. All five men's work was excellent (though it was obvious Kirby was feeling burnt out) but those two were definitely hitting on all cylinders.
Cei-U! Why isn't Gene Colan on the list for his and Tom Palmer's psychedelic Dr. Strange?
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Post by james on Jun 3, 2022 5:50:07 GMT -5
Buscema and Adams for me, too. All five men's work was excellent (though it was obvious Kirby was feeling burnt out) but those two were definitely hitting on all cylinders. Cei-U! Why isn't Gene Colan on the list for his and Tom Palmer's psychedelic Dr. Strange? I totally forgot to add “other”. I put the 5 titles that I grew up reading but unfortunately Dr Strange was never on my radar. If someone can tell me how to edit the poll I’ll add other
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 6:04:42 GMT -5
Buscema and Adams for me, too. All five men's work was excellent ( though it was obvious Kirby was feeling burnt out) but those two were definitely hitting on all cylinders. Burnt out, but I think his style had developed a lot since the early 60's and was looking snazzy still! Love Neal Adams and obviously he was doing amazing stuff on X-Men in his groundbreaking way, but man, something about say the Odin in the first picture below, just the sheer creativity:
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 3, 2022 6:37:18 GMT -5
Heh, '69. Nice...
I went with Neal Adams on X-men (I think there's two few artists listed for a 'pick-two' option; and yeah, Colan should have gotten some love, too). Much as I love Buscema's work in this period, and in any period to be honest, those X-men issues by Adams are so ground-breaking and cinematic. They really are cut above everything else that was being produced at the time.
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 3, 2022 6:42:47 GMT -5
I was reading some 1969 Avengers and was again blown away by the art. It made me go through the Marvel titles of 1969 and man what a year. For me John Buscema on Avengers and Neal Adams on X-men. Interesting idea, but without John Romita on that list (whether its 1969, or a number of years), I feel the selections are very, very incomplete. If you're only concentrating on interiors, someone might say, "on Spider-Man, Romita did the layouts during 1969, with Mooney providing pencils" but it is clear that Romita was running that ship, and if you add the covers (easily among the best ever to come out of Marvel), he would be on a list of this kind.
Moreover, by '69, Romita was years into being one of the most omnipresent and clearly superior talents at Marvel beyond one title (interiors, covers, finishing the work of / being the style guide for others, layouts, etc.) that again, the list seems very incomplete--narrow.
Regarding John Buscema, he barely dipped his toes on The Avengers in '69, only illustrating interiors from January (#60) to March (#62). The rest of that title's year were Colan (#63 - #65), Windsor-Smith (#66 - #67), and the remainder of that year--Sal Buscema (#68 - #71). If I were to pick the year for John Buscema on The Avengers, it would be 1968, where he delivered some of his / the title's greatest work (the same can be said for the stories, too).
Neal Adams: brilliant as always, and I place his X-Men run as the best of that title (followed by Cockrum). Certainly a good choice for
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 6:56:35 GMT -5
Buscema and Adams for me, too. All five men's work was excellent (though it was obvious Kirby was feeling burnt out) but those two were definitely hitting on all cylinders. Cei-U! Why isn't Gene Colan on the list for his and Tom Palmer's psychedelic Dr. Strange? I totally forgot to add “other”. I put the 5 titles that I grew up reading but unfortunately Dr Strange was never on my radar. If someone can tell me how to edit the poll I’ll add other Can't edit the polls themselves (and there hasn't been a single one I've posted in the past where I didn't wish I could!), but we can always write in our alternatives of course. I think it's a fun topic FWIW...better to post an idea missing a few parts that gets a discussion going versus not posting at all!
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 3, 2022 7:50:58 GMT -5
My problem here is Buscema's best work at the time, and some of his best work ever, was on the Silver Surfer, not the Avengers. And at this point Kirby was doing better work on FF than Thor. Meanwhile, you are ignoring Romita on Spider-Man, Colan on Dr.Strange and Steranko's all time classic Captain America Run.
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Post by james on Jun 3, 2022 8:19:23 GMT -5
My problem here is Buscema's best work at the time, and some of his best work ever, was on the Silver Surfer, not the Avengers. And at this point Kirby was doing better work on FF than Thor. Meanwhile, you are ignoring Romita on Spider-Man, Colan on Dr.Strange and Steranko's all time classic Captain America Run. I did have Romita. I am new to the whole Poll posting. also probably not a great idea that I posted this at 530am and did have my full faculties. I realize as I read the posts I missed a few great artists and I rethought the 2 selections but realized i could not edit the post.. My apologies
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 8:26:09 GMT -5
My problem here is Buscema's best work at the time, and some of his best work ever, was on the Silver Surfer, not the Avengers. And at this point Kirby was doing better work on FF than Thor. Meanwhile, you are ignoring Romita on Spider-Man, Colan on Dr.Strange and Steranko's all time classic Captain America Run. I did have Romita. I am new to the whole Poll posting. also probably not a great idea that I posted this at 530am and did have my full faculties. I realize as I read the posts I missed a few great artists and I rethought the 2 selections but realized i could not edit the post.. My apologies Every survey summons the "crossed arms of judgement" (I say that tongue-in-cheek), no apologies needed IMO. Folks took your idea and it generated further dialogue on what a more comprehensive list should look like, as well as good comments on the choices themselves. It's already made me rethink my own choices a bit. Anything that gets my brain going in the morning is a good thing.
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 3, 2022 8:36:49 GMT -5
My problem here is Buscema's best work at the time, and some of his best work ever, was on the Silver Surfer, not the Avengers. And at this point Kirby was doing better work on FF than Thor. Meanwhile, you are ignoring Romita on Spider-Man, Colan on Dr.Strange and Steranko's all time classic Captain America Run. I did have Romita. I am new to the whole Poll posting. also probably not a great idea that I posted this at 530am and did have my full faculties. I realize as I read the posts I missed a few great artists and I rethought the 2 selections but realized i could not edit the post.. My apologies I agree with what Supercat said. Maybe instead of a poll it should just have been just a discussion on top pencillers at Marvel in 69?
And in that vein, I cannot go without pointing to one of my all time favorite artist inker combos. Gene Colan and Syd Shores on Darevevil, which was happening in 69.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 3, 2022 10:10:27 GMT -5
And in that vein, I cannot go without pointing to one of my all time favorite artist inker combos. Gene Colan and Syd Shores on Darevevil, which was happening in 69.This was my first thought too (well, first after John Romita on ASM).
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Post by Bronze age andy on Jun 3, 2022 15:52:25 GMT -5
Don't forget Marie Severin's wonderful work on Sub Mariner.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 3, 2022 15:57:46 GMT -5
It's Romita for me.
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