Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 52) Thor Stands Aside

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1 Buckler

1968: Thor #156 Kirby

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 51) Thor Once More

1967: Thor #144 Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1
Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 50) Thor and Whizzer

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1 Buckler

1964: Avengers #6 Kirby

GIant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 49) Iron Man and Captain America

        1974:Giant-Size Avengers 1 Buckler     1966:Tales of Suspense 84  Kirby                 

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 48) More Thor

1966: Thor #130  Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1  Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 47) Thor Says a Mouthful

1968: Thor #156  Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1 Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 46) Crystal and Mantis

Why is Mantis shown with a big ol' man hand?! What's more the hand is gloved and Mantis doesn't wear gloves. Well, at least the colorist tried to get it right and made it flesh-colored!

1969: Fantastic Four 83 Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers 1 Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 45) Thor Makes A Splash--Twice!

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1 Rich Buckler

1970: Thor #174 Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 44) Captain America, Vision and Nuklo

1974: Giant-Size Avengers 1 Buckler                        1968: Captain America 106 Kirby  

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 43) Iron Man and Nuklo

1966: Tales to Astonish #82  Jack Kirby

                                           1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1  Rich Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 42) Behold The Vision--Flat On His Back

1966: Journey Into Mystery #125 Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1  Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 41) Thor, Avengers and Nuklo

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1  Rich Buckler

1969: Thor #163  Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 40) Cap Crouches in the Corner

1968: Captain America #106 Jack Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1  Rich Buckler

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 39) Party Crashers

1974:Giant-Size Avengers #1 Buckler

1969: Thor #160  Kirby

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 38) Adam Warlock and Nuklo, The Invader That Time Forgot

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1  Rich Buckler

1969: Thor #165  Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 37) Smoke and Mirrors

1969: Fantastic Four #89  Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1 Buckler

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