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Post by Farrar on Dec 9, 2023 17:04:13 GMT -5
DC would do them as well, of course... .............................................
I still have this--love this pin-up of the Justice Soety of America Seriously, I love Murphy Anderson's work.
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Post by Farrar on Dec 9, 2023 17:10:17 GMT -5
And of course John Buscema was no slouch either. From Avengers Annual #2
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Post by berkley on Dec 9, 2023 17:19:09 GMT -5
DC would do them as well, of course... .............................................
I still have this--love this pin-up of the Justice Soety of America Seriously, I love Murphy Anderson's work.
I like his style a lot. I only wish he'd worked for Marvel, or at least on a DC series or character I found interesting enough to read. He's a bit like Nick Cardy for me in that respect - one of the drawbakcs of me disliking DC characters in general.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 9, 2023 17:23:33 GMT -5
I still have this--love this pin-up of the Justice Soety of America Seriously, I love Murphy Anderson's work.
I like his style a lot. I only wish he'd worked for Marvel, or at least on a DC series or character I found interesting enough to read. He's a bit like Nick Cardy for me in that respect - one of the drawbacks of me disliking DC characters in general.
Nick Cardy worked on Bat Lash. There's everything to love about that.
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Post by berkley on Dec 9, 2023 17:25:37 GMT -5
And of course John Buscema was no slouch either. From Avengers Annual #2 I like this kind of thing much more than the static, posed shots of everyone just standing or sitting square on to the viewer's eye.
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Post by berkley on Dec 9, 2023 17:27:23 GMT -5
I like his style a lot. I only wish he'd worked for Marvel, or at least on a DC series or character I found interesting enough to read. He's a bit like Nick Cardy for me in that respect - one of the drawbacks of me disliking DC characters in general.
Nick Cardy worked on Bat Lash. There's everything to love about that. I'm not the biggest western comics fan but I'll probably give it a look some day, just fpr Cardy's artwork.
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 9, 2023 19:09:50 GMT -5
I like when they capture the personality of the subject and aren't a generic shot or pose. Apologies to the die hard Kirby fans out there, but I've always thought that his female pin-ups looked like a freakshow gallery. I'm pretty sure that is not what Kirby was going for. I've never found his visual idea of women appealing, especially with so many having wide faces and high cheekbones.
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 9, 2023 19:12:25 GMT -5
And of course John Buscema was no slouch either. From Avengers Annual #2 That is Avengers perfection. No one captured the energy and heart of this team before or after John Buscema.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2023 21:27:33 GMT -5
I love classic Avengers and appreciate Buscema's a legend, but if I'm being honest, Captain America's "anatomy" looks downright painful. I feel like the attempt to bring dynamism is a bit too exaggerated, and they look more like they are being electrocuted. My Avengers gold standard is much more George Perez (loved the Neal Adams stuff too, would have liked more).
That Anderson JSA on the other hand looks just beautiful to me, that's more my speed.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 9, 2023 22:58:39 GMT -5
And of course John Buscema was no slouch either. From Avengers Annual #2 I generally like Buscema, but there’s some wonky stuff here. As Supercat pointed out, Cap’s posing is of the type that usually has people giving Frank Robbins grief. Thor’s expression is one of existential dread. And Hercules (I’m assuming that’s him) looks like a shaved mangani.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 10, 2023 9:11:20 GMT -5
That Hulk looks amazing.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 10, 2023 9:19:31 GMT -5
Bah, my genius must be preserved !
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 10, 2023 12:53:06 GMT -5
I love classic Avengers and appreciate Buscema's a legend, but if I'm being honest, Captain America's "anatomy" looks downright painful. I feel like the attempt to bring dynamism is a bit too exaggerated, and they look more like they are being electrocuted. My Avengers gold standard is much more George Perez (loved the Neal Adams stuff too, would have liked more). That Anderson JSA on the other hand looks just beautiful to me, that's more my speed. I believe the body positions represented the characters at their most energetic, or captured in a typically Buscema execution of such a scene in Avengers comics of his era. I rate it as one of the best pin-ups in Avengers history.
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Post by Farrar on Dec 10, 2023 17:23:48 GMT -5
A mere couple of months after that Avengers Annual, Buscema gave this within the story in Avengers #58: People asked why Spidey was included, as he was neither an Avengers nor had he fought alongside them. Marvel said, well, he'd been offered membership and received an assignment from them (to capture the Hulk, in ASM Annual #3), so somehow this meant he fit Thor's description of "those who were but called."
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 11, 2023 7:25:09 GMT -5
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