Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 36) Avengers and Inhumans, Faces In a Crowd

1969: Fantastic Four #83  Kirby                    1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1 Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 35) Captain America--Capsized!

         1974:  Giant-Size Avengers 1  Buckler          1967: Tales of Suspense 92  Kirby                    

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 34) More Captain America and Whizzer

             1974:Giant-Size Avengers 1 Buckler           1967:Tales of Suspense 92 Kirby                                                     

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 33) Cap 'n' Batroc Back to Back

Aka "Me and My Shadow"...

1968: Captain America #105  Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1  Buckler 

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 37) Thundra and Torch Stand By Reed

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Buckler

1965: Fantastic Four #43 Kirby

Click here for a recap of Fantastic Four #148.

Next: 

Giant-Size Avengers #1, published in May 1974. After that we'll return to the FF, specifically Fantastic Four #149, which was published a couple of weeks after G-S A 1. 

Giant-Size Avengers #1                                       Fantastic Four #149

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 36) Thor, Hercules, Ben and Sandman

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Rich Buckler

1965: Journey Into Mystery Annual #1  Jack Kirby

The Thor-Hercules image is from the Kirby JiM Annual #1 cover, below. And it could be that the smaller-sized JiM Annual #1 house ad (seen in FF #42 and #43, for example) was used as the foundation for the FF #148 Thing-Sandman image.

Journey Into Mystery Annual #1

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 35) Cap 'n' Trapster Are the Bee's Knees...Plus Gil Kane!

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Rich Buckler

1966: Tales of Suspense #85  Jack Kirby

Bonus! Gil Kane's Kirbyesque Cap, a few issues later in ToS #88

Tales of Suspense #88 Gil Kane

Like many other Marvel pencilers, Gil Kane was asked to approximate Kirby's dynamic storytelling. Check out Kane's 1960s Captain America Suspense run and you'll see plenty of Kirby references--another Cap example here!   

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 34) Captain America, Thundra and Sandman

Fantastic Four #148 (1974) Buckler

Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965) Kirby

Stay Strong

Thoughts and prayers to our Parisian friends. Be safe and stay strong.

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 33) Here Comes the Bashful Blue-Eyed Thing

1965: Fantastic Four #40  Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Buckler

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 32) Dr. Doom and Wizard--Great Minds Think Alike

L.  Fantastic Four #40 (1965) Kirby               R.  Fantastic Four #148 (1974) Buckler

Here's the #148 sequence:  

Fantastic Four #148 (19745) Buckler

The Kirby panels are from Fantastic Four #40 page 9... 

...and page 16. 

Fantastic Four #40 (1965) Kirby

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 31) Medusa, Wizard, Human Torch, Dr. Doom

 Fantastic Four 148 (1974)                      Fantastic Four 40 (1965)
Buckler                                        Kirby

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 30) Mr. Fantastic and the Wizard

1968: Fantastic Four #78  Jack Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 29) Reed's Ray Gun Redux

In the FF#148 sequence, Reed claims he's "just rigged" the new tracing device he's holding --but it sure looks awfully similar to the Power Amplifier he used back in #40. Either Reed revamped the first device or else he really likes that design for his doohickeys!

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Buckler

1965: Fantastic Four #40  Kirby

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 28) Wingless Wizard

     Fantastic Four #43 (1965) Kirby                            Fantastic Four #148 (1974) Buckler                    

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 27) Back to the Whomb

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Buckler

1965: Fantastic Four #43  Kirby

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 26) Ben Lunges

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Buckler

1968: Fantastic Four #81  Kirby

Fantastic Four #147 (Pt 46) Sub-Mariner and the Original Human Torch Back to Back

   

1974: Fantastic Four #147 Buckler

              

1966: Fantastic Four Annual #4  Jack Kirby

Psst! Did you notice that most of the panels on the last page of #147 are based on images from 1966's FF Annual #4? Why don't we take a look at the page in question: 

Fantastic Four #147's last page

Check out the Fantastic Four Annual #4 sources here: 
Panel one
Panel two, as seen recently
Panel three above
Panel four

The only panel not from FF Annual #4 is panel five, Namor and Sue, which is based on a panel from 1967's Fantastic Four #66.

Fantastic Four #147 (Pt 45) A Whoom! of One's Own

1965: Fantastic Four #40   Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four #147  Buckler

Whooms! courtesy of  artful Artie Simek, letterer extraordinaire.