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

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

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

Feb. 1968: Fantastic Four #71  Jack Kirby

Jan. 1973: Marvel Team-Up #6  Gil Kane

Dec. 1973: Fantastic Four #141 John Buscema

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?

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 ;) 

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.  

Black Bolt and the Inhumans-Courtesy of Kirby 'n' Kane

Two masters at work here--Kirby and Kane! 

1969: Fantastic Four #83 Jack Kirby

1976: Inhumans #6 Gil Kane

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 #147 (Pt 6) Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and Gil Kane!

Fantastic Four #147 (1974) Rich Buckler

Tales of Suspense #85 (1967) Jack Kirby

Panelocity Plus! The great Gil Kane's Cap a few issues later in Tales of Suspense #89.

Tales of Suspense #89 (1967) Gil Kane

Re the Kirby-Kane Caps: I came across these two Tales of Suspense panels some years ago in Arlen Schumer's fascinating book The Silver Age of Comic Book Art.  As many Marvelites know, back in the 1960s Stan Lee wanted new Marvel artists to study Jack Kirby's work and/or draw over Kirby layouts, so that the artists would get the hang of the dynamic Marvel house style. Kane seems to have had no problem doing just that, as well as adding his own distinctive style to the art!