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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Adventure #521 and the Legion of Super-Heroes

I came across this opening splash to the 2011 Legion story in Adventure Comics #521. And I'm sure you can guess 😄what I'm going to say next:

This image immediately reminded me of a panel from the Silver Age!

Adventure Comics #521 (2011)
Penciler: Geraldo Borges

Can you guess what the above Legion image reminded me of?

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Hint: think of another super team.

Okay, here we go!

The characters' positions and placement reminded me of Captain America and the Scarlet Witch in this panel from John Buscema's Avengers #44 (1967).

Avengers #44 (1967) John Buscema
Adventure #521 (2011) Geraldo Borges

Another view--ah, the déjà vu 😁

As noted earlier:
Avengers #44 (1967) John Buscema
Adventure #521 (2011) Geraldo Borges

I am a huge fan of Big John Buscema's Avengers, so I truly madly deeply love 💕this callback!

Monday, March 16, 2020

Steranko's Captain America and the Master of Kung Fu!

Panelocity follower Aficionado Guy recently forwarded some interesting panels my way.

Captain America #110 (1969) Jim Steranko Master of Kung Fu #54 (1977) Jim Craig

I love that both of these occupy the same place on their respective pages, the lower right corner.

Then a few pages later we get these sequences:

Captain America #110 (1969) Jim Steranko

Master of Kung Fu #54 (1977) Jim Craig

Many thanks to Aficionado Guy!

Monday, August 26, 2019

Fantastic Four #169 (Pt 5) Ben Bursts Forth

1963: Strange Tales #114 Jack Kirby--a popular Kirby pose

Here's a variation from
1976: Fantastic Four #169 Rich Buckler

Monday, June 24, 2019

Fantastic Four #168 (Pt 12) Captain America and Luke Cage

Captain America Tales of Suspense 84 Batroc

1966: Tales of Suspense #83 - Jack Kirby

1976: Fantastic Four #168 - Rich Buckler

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Fantastic Four #156 - Shalla, Surfer and Doom=Sharon, Steve and Skull

Shalla Bal's distraught expression in Fantastic Four #156 (l.) immediately reminded me of Sharon Carter's distraught expression in Captain America #104 (r.)...

1975: Fantastic Four #156-Rich Buckler 1968: Captain America #104-Jack Kirby

...and that led me to--well, take a look 😉

1975: sequence from Fantastic Four #156 - Rich Buckler

1968: sequence from Captain America #104 - Jack Kirby

Breaking it down:

Captain America 104 Sharon Carter Steve Rogers

1975: Fantastic Four #156 - Buckler 1968: Captain America #104 -Kirby

1975: Fantastic Four #156 - Buckler 1968: Captain America #104 -Kirby

Kirby Captain America 104 Skull Close-Up Eyes

1975: Fantastic Four #156 - Buckler 1968: Captain America #104 -Kirby

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Avengers #101 and #56 - Captain America to the Rescue

(Top) 1968 - Avengers #56 John Buscema
(Bottom) 1972 - Avengers #101 Rich Buckler

Update!
In response to Silver Fox's comment, here's a Kirby image that I'd stumbled on some time ago. It's from Captain America #105 (1968) and when I first saw it I was immediately reminded of Avengers #56 (and by extension #101). However I think the lead time is just too short between Cap #105 and Avengers #56 (the Cap issue was on sale a mere month before the Avengers comic); I doubt Buscema had access to this image. Besides, it's a fairly standard composition.

Anyway, here's the Kirby image from Cap #105:

1968: Captain America #105 Jack Kirby

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Cap, Bucky and Batroc - Captain America #105 and Avengers #106

1968: Captain America #105 Jack Kirby 1972: Avengers #106 George Tuska

Monday, October 16, 2017

Steranko's Captain America and Hawkeye's Avengers

1969: Captain America #111 Jim Steranko 1984: West Coast Avengers #1 Bob Hall

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Captain America--Standing Tall and Proud!

Cap speaks no evil...

July 1967: Tales of Suspense #91/Captain America - Gil Kane

...sees no evil...

Nov. 1968: Captain America #107 - Jack Kirby

...and hears no evil 😉

June 1973: Captain America #162 - Jim Starlin

Bonus!

Nov. 1972: Captain America #155 - Sal Buscema

Now for a slightly off-kilter stance

Nov. 1977: Captain America #215 - Gil Kane once again

This looks a bit painful😨

Dec. 1964: Tales of Suspense #60/Captain America - Jack Kirby

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

X-Men #34 and Dan Adkins

1967's X-Men #34 was an early Marvel penciling assignment for Dan Adkins, and back then the fanzines quickly pointed out just how heavily he'd relied on reference--check out just a few examples below (there are many more in the issue; take a look through it). Naturally Adkins looked to the Kirby X-Men issues for guidance--but guess what comic the second panel (Angel flying) is based on.

1967: X-Men #34 Dan Adkins

Okay, here's the breakdown:

1967: X-Men #34 DanAdkins

Yes, the pose is a standard one. Adkins repositions Angel a bit.

1965: X-Men #11 Jack Kirby

1967: X-Men #34 Adkins

1964: Tales of Suspense #60 Jack Kirby

1967: X-Men #34 Dan Adkins

1964: X-Men #8 Jack Kirby

1967: X-Men #34 Dan Adkins

1965: X-Men #10 Jack Kirby

Go to the head of the class if you remembered that Panel 2 has been featured on Panelocity😏

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Popular Panel Composition by Kirby, Tuska, Kane and Adkins

I know Kirby wasn't the first to use this rather standard composition, but I'm still betting Tuska, Adkins and Kane each had a copy of Tales of Suspense #60 nearby ;)

Kirby Tales of Suspense 60 Captain America

1964: Tales of Suspense #60 Jack Kirby

1966: THUNDER Agents #8 George Tuska

1967: Tales of Suspense 91 Gil Kane.

1967: X-Men 34 Dan Adkins

Fun fact: Both Tales of Suspense #91 and X-Men #34 were on sale in July 1967 (so, in preproduction around the same time).
I posted the Tuska version previously, but I'm including it here so you can compare it with these other Silver Age panels.