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Showing posts with label Fantastic Four #141. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantastic Four #141. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2016

Popular Thing Pose by Kirby, Kane, Buscema, Buckler and Perez

Classic Benjamin J. Grimm: standard shots of Ben as punching bag. 

Kirby Fantastic Four 71 And So It Ends
Feb. 1968: Fantastic Four #71  Jack Kirby
Marvel Team-Up 6 Thing Alicia
Jan. 1973: Marvel Team-Up #6  Gil Kane
Fanatstic Four 141 Negative Zone
Dec. 1973: Fantastic Four #141 John Buscema
Fantastic Four 144 Attack
March 1974: Fantastic Four #144 Rich Buckler


Dec. 1976: Fantastic Four #177 George Perez
Perez changes the legs and adopts Buscema's open mouth expression 
 If Buscema's and Buckler's panels look familiar, it's because we've seen them before here and here.  How do Kane's and Perez's stack up?

Friday, July 24, 2015

Fantastic Four #141 (Pt 3) Sue Reaches Out

Fantastic Four 141 John Buscema
1973: Fantastic Four #141 - John Buscema 
Fantastic Four 39 Lee Kirby
1965: Fantastic Four #39 - Jack Kirby

Psst--look at Franklin vis-à-vis Ben. ;)


Verdict: Eh, pretty standard. typical positions. 

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Fantastic Four #141 (Pt 2) Classic Ben

Fantastic Four 141 Annihilus Buscema
1973: Fantastic Four #141 John Buscema
Fantastic Four 71 Lee Kirby
1968: Fantastic Four #71  Jack Kirby


Check out Rich Buckler's version of the FF #71 panel here ...plus his version of Buscema's #141 Thing here. 

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Monday, September 15, 2014

Fantastic Four #142 (Pt 2) Reed's Ray Gun

 FF #142 was Rich Buckler's first issue as the FF's regular penciler and like John Romita Sr. and John Buscema before him, Buckler had to maintain a visual consistency with the Kirby FF. In addition Buckler also had to provide continuity with popular predecessor Buscema's work. Joe Sinnott finished many of Buscema's and Buckler's issues, adding to the seamless B-to-B transition. 
  
Here's an example from FF #142 of Buckler's take on the Buscema musculature combined with a Kirby-inspired panel. 
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Fantastic Four #142 (1974) Buckler




Fantastic Four 40-BattleofBaxterBuilding
Fantastic Four #40 (1965) Kirby

And here's the Buscema version from the preceding issue, FF #141 (Buckler's #142 panel is a flashback of this scene). 
Fantastic Four 141-EndofFantasticFour
Fantastic Four #141 (1974) John Buscema

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Fantastic Four #153 (Pt 22) Panel 8, Penultimate Page - Medusa Spaces Out

#153's Reed and Ben may be partly based on Kirby's opening splash of FF #100 (1970), but Medusa here is pretty much a twin of John Buscema's Medusa from the opening splash of Fantastic Four #141. Johnny's legs and feet make stellar appearances in both panels too.  
Fantastic Four 153-WorldsInCollision
Cover-dated December 1974 - Fantastic Four #153 - Buckler
Fantastic Four 141-EndofFantasticFour
A mere year earlier! Cover-dated December 1973 - Fantastic Four #141 - by Big John Buscema

Fantastic Four 153-WorldsInCollision
Fantastic Four #153 (1974) Page 30

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