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| 1967: Fantastic Four Annual #5 - Jack Kirby |
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| 1968: Incredible Hulk Annual #1 - Marie Severin |
Showing posts with label Silver Surfer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silver Surfer. Show all posts
Monday, December 14, 2020
Incredible Hulk Annual #1 and Fantastic Four Annual #5
Monday, November 5, 2018
Fantastic Four #157 (Pt 2) Silver Surfer's Soulful Stare
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| 1966: Fantastic Four #49 Jack Kirby |
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| 1975: Fantastic Four #157 Rich Buckler |
Monday, September 10, 2018
Fantastic Four #153 (Pt 27) Heads Up! More From Fantastic Four #50
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| 1974: Fantastic Four #153 Rich Buckler |
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| 1966: Fantastic Four #50 Jack Kirby |
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.)...
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| 1975: Fantastic Four #156-Rich Buckler 1968: Captain America #104-Jack Kirby ...and that led me to--well, take a look 😉
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| 1968: sequence from Captain America #104 - Jack Kirby |
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| 1975: Fantastic Four #156 - Buckler 1968: Captain America #104 -Kirby |
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| 1975: Fantastic Four #156 - Buckler 1968: Captain America #104 -Kirby |
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| 1975: Fantastic Four #156 - Buckler 1968: Captain America #104 -Kirby |
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Fantastic Four #149 (Pt 21) Thing, Sub-Mariner, Silver Surfer and Quasimdo
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| 1974: Fantastic Four #149 Buckler |
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| 1967: "Peerless Power of the Silver Surfer" - Fantastic Four Annual #5 Kirby |
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 24) Three More Things
Three-panel Thing sequence from FF #144.
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| Fantastic Four #144 (1974) Buckler |
The breakdown:
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| Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler Fantastic Four 69 (1967) Kirby |
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| Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler again, Fantastic Four 69 (1967) Kirby |
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| Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler Fantastic Four 72 (1968) Kirby |
Monday, March 30, 2015
Fantastic Four #116 (Pt 5) The Silver Surfer Sneaks In
I immediately recognized a few shots of #116's Stranger and the Overmind as quite obviously based the Silver Surfer and Quasimodo from the Surfer's solo tale in Fantastic Four Annual #5 (1967). This type of wholesale character substitution was unusual for John Buscema during his FF stint. His use of Kirby was pretty straightforward; he'd typically refer to a Kirby Reed as a model for his own Reed, a Kirby Sue for Sue, etc.
FF #116 was among the Marvel comics on sale in August 1971 that had an increased page count from 32 to 48 pages (along with a price increase from 15 cents to 25 cents). I'm guessing that #116's additional pages induced Buscema to rely on Kirby reference more than he normally would have, as he now had to produce 34 pages of art--instead of the usual 19 or 20!
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| Fantastic Four #116 (1971) John Buscema |
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| Fantastic Four Annual #5 (1967) Jack Kirby |
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| Fantastic Four #116 (1971) Buscema |
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| Fantastic Four Annual #5 (1967) Jack Kirby |
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| FF 116 (1971) Buscema FF Annual 5 (1967) Kirby |
The pages in question:
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| Page 31, Fantastic Four #116 (1971) Buscema Also, the last panel here was likely inspired by Annual #5's page 5 splash below |
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| Pages 4 and 5, Fantastic Four Annual #5 (1967) Kirby |
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| Pages 6 and 7, Fantastic Four Annual #5 (1967) Kirby Fun Fact! Marvel's books reverted to their previous page count the very next month, only now with a 20 cent cover price--all part of Martin Goodman's master plan. |
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