Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 14) Thundra, Thunder God and Throngs

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Rich Buckler

1965:  Journey Into Mystery #121  Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 13) Ben Gets Bombarded

         Fantastic Four #68 (1967)                     Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (1974)
             by birthday boy Jack Kirby, natch!                                    Rich Buckler                                                                                                                    

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 12) Ben's In a Slump

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars 1 Buckler

1968: Fantastic Four 78   Kirby

More on this GSSS #1 panel here.

Giant Super-Stars #1 (Pt 11) Bruce Banner and Reed Richards

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Rich Buckler

  

          

1968: Fantastic Four #78  Jack Kirby           

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 10) Bruce Banner's Ubiquitous Purple Pants

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Buckler

1964: Avengers #3 Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 9) Bruce Banner, Reed and Sue

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1
Buckler  

1970:  Fantastic Four #98
Kirby  

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 8) Three-Peat

We saw Buscema's take on this Fantastic Four #78 Kirby panel during our look at John Buscema's Fantastic Four. Now let's add Buckler's version to the mix. 

    Kirby 1968: Fantastic Four #78                   Buscema 1971: Fantastic Four #107 

Buckler 1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 7) The Hulk From Avengers #3

 1964: Avengers #3   Jack Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1   Buckler

1964: Avengers #3   Kirby

                  

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1                    
Buckler                    


The panels on the pages:

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1                                       Avengers #3                 

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 27) Krrak!

1966: Fantastic Four #56  Jack Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four #144  Buckler

Fun fact: Both KRRAK!s were lettered by artful Artie Simek. 

Next up: the estimable Giant-Size Super-Stars #1, published in February 1974.  I think you'll be surprised by several of the source panels, especially the ones involving the mighty Thundra. 

If you're still jonesing for more FF #144, click here. 

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 26) Human Torch: Three on a Match

Human Torch sequence from FF #144:

Fantastic Four #144  (1974) Buckler

The breakdown:

The 144 panel (l.) is almost a mirror image of  1969's Fantastic Four 90 (r.) 

Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler       Fantastic Four 81 (1968) Kirby

Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler       Fantastic Four 99 (1970) Kirby                 

The #99 Kirby panel is an old reliable, rather generic Torch standard. For example, check it out in Fantastic Four #153.  

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 25) Two Torches

1968: Fantastic Four #76  Kirby        

1974: Fantastic Four #144  Buckler

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 24) Three More Things

Three-panel Thing sequence from FF #144. 

Fantastic Four #144 (1974) Buckler

The breakdown:

Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler          Fantastic Four 69 (1967) Kirby

Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler              again,  Fantastic Four 69 (1967) Kirby

                                               

Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler                    Fantastic Four 72 (1968) Kirby

       

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 23) Blastaar and the Seeker

1967: Fantastic Four #63  Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four #144  Buckler

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 22) The Thing in the Window

1969: Fantastic Four # 84  Jack Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four # 144 Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 21) Three More Things From Fantastic Four #65

Continuing with Fantastic Four #65, here's page 11. 

Page 11 of Fantastic Four #65 (1967) Jack Kirby

You'll see bits 'n' pieces of this page throughout #144: 

Fantastic Four #65 (1967) Jack Kirby 

Fantastic Four #144 (1974) Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #65 (1967) Kirby

 Fantastic Four #144 (1974) Buckler

Fantastic Four #65 (1967) Kirby

 Fantastic Four #144 (1974) Buckler

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 20) Pulled From the Pages of Fantastic Four #65

                       

                        1974: Fantastic Four #144  Rich Buckler

1967: Fantastic Four #65  Jack Kirby

 

Then I noticed these panels on the same pages as the panels above.

Fantastic Four 144 (1974)

Fantastic Four 65 (1967) 

The panels in context: 

Sequence from Fantastic Four #144 (1974) Buckler

Sequence from Fantastic Four #65 (1967) Kirby

And do you think Johnny's hunched-over, awkward pose in #144's bottom left corner was a riff on Reed's pose in #65's bottom left corner?

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 19) It's Clobberin' Time

1967: Fantastic Four #63  Jack Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four #144   Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 18) Reed Richards Gets His Man--Or Does He?

1968: Fantastic Four #71  Kirby                                                                     

1974: Fantastic Four #144 Buckler