Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 33) Iron Man, Hulk, Sub-Mariner and Thing

1966: Tales to Astonish #82  Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 32) A Soarin' Torch 'n' Thor

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

1969: Thor #166 Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 31) Hulk, Thing, Iron Man and Sub-Mariner

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

1966: Tales to Astonish #82  Kirby

Jack Kirby stepped in at the last minute and finished up the Sub-Mariner Astonish story for Gene Colan, who'd penciled a couple of pages before succumbing to the flu. Yes, even a Kirby rush job provides inspiration!

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 30) NYC Subway

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

1964: Fantastic Four #26  Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 29) Thundra and Adam Warlock

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Buckler

1969: Thor #166  Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 28) Pulled From the Pages of Fantastic Four #52

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

1966: Fantastic Four #52  Jack Kirby

Note that both panels involve the FF testing new aircraft given to them by the Black Panther. Did the penciled art remind Gerry Conway of FF #52, or was he the one who suggested the scenario/specific issue to Rich Buckler? In any event, the GSSS #1 dialogue and art provide continuity to the Lee-Kirby FF. 

Plus! I then noticed these on the same pages as above: 

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1

1966: Fantastic Four #52 

The panels on the pages: 

Fantastic Four #52 (1966) Kirby                              Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (1974) Buckler

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 27) Thundra and Hercules

1965: Journey Into Mystery Annual #1  Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Buckler

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 26) Thing and Hercules

 

1966: Thor #128  Jack Kirby

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

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 25) Hulk, Thing and Thor

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

1968: Thor #149  Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 24) Falling Through the Cracks

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

1964: Fantastic Four #25 Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 23) Thing, Hulk, Thor and Ulik

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

1968: Thor #152  Kirby

I then noticed these on the same pages as above: 

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 

1968: Thor #152   

 The panels on the pages: 

             1968: Thor #152                                        1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1                 

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 22) Role Reversal

Giant-Size Super-Stars 1 (1974) Buckler                Fantastic Four 25 (1964) Kirby                                    

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 21) Ben Rests on His Laurels

Here's the last panel of GSSS #1's page 19, one of the pages we looked at last time. 

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Buckler

1964: Fantastic Four #26   Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 20) Thing, Thor, Thundra, Hulk--and Yes, More Absorbing Man!

I immediately recognized the model for Thundra's very distinctive pose... 

Giant-Size Super-Stars 1 (1974) Buckler              Journey Into Mystery 122 (1965) Kirby

....and then I came upon other panels from that same page of Journey Into Mystery #122. 

Giant-Size Super-Stars 1 (1974) Buckler              Journey Into Mystery 122 (1965) Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars 1 (1974) Buckler     Journey Into Mystery 122 (1965) Kirby 

                 Plus! This GSSS panel from a nearby page is also based on the same JiM #122 sequence as above. 

Giant-Size Super-Stars 1 (1974) Buckler 

Journey Into Mystery 122 (1965) Kirby

The pages in question:

Panels from pages 2 and 3 from Journey Into Mystery #122 ...

...are used as templates for panels on page 19 (l.)  and page 27 (r.) 
in Giant-Size Super-Stars #1.

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 19) Thundra, Hulk, Thor and Absorbing Man

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars 1 Buckler

1965: Journey Into Mystery 121 Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 18) Hulk, Thing, Thor and Ulik

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

1967: Thor #137  Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 17) Angry Orange Behemoths Lash Out

1966: Thor #129  Jack Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 Buckler

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 16) Human Torch and Inhuman King

               

               1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Buckler

1967: Fantastic Four #59  Jack Kirby

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 15) Thing, Thor, Hulk and Ulik

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

1967: Thor #137  Jack Kirby