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Description
Great battle page with both Ka-Zar and Zabu in classic Bronze Age Marvel action! Dynamic pencils by Big John Buscema are done full justice with inks by Neal Adams and the Crusty Bunkers!
Inscriptions
John Buscema signature on back or page accompanied by some rough pencil sketches
Comment
A truly gorgeous page featuring two giants of the medium at their height - this is pure, dynamic John Buscema on pencils with Neal Adams and the Crusty Bunkers on inks.
Looking closely at this awesome piece, it's clear that Adams had a significant role in the inking - possibly the smaller Zabu panel, but certainly the large middle one shows fine line and hints of drybrush effect which is Adams through and through. I think the facial inks on the priest could be Adams (there's drybrush again on the second to last panel), but the final panel featuring Ka-Zar ending him almost definitely is - the quality of line in rendering the anatomy is pure Adams.
My bro, who has one hell of an eye for this sort of thing, reckons that Dick Giordano had a hand in some of the inks here and I agree. There's some of his stylings on the penultimate panel's Ka-Zar for sure. He also thinks that Russ Heath probably inked the lizard creature.
Some lovely half-tone washes on this piece give it the volume and solidity which characterised black and white Marvel mags at their best in the 1970s.
In all, one hell of a sweet page and a great example of a Bronze Age Marvel Masterpiece!
Looking closely at this awesome piece, it's clear that Adams had a significant role in the inking - possibly the smaller Zabu panel, but certainly the large middle one shows fine line and hints of drybrush effect which is Adams through and through. I think the facial inks on the priest could be Adams (there's drybrush again on the second to last panel), but the final panel featuring Ka-Zar ending him almost definitely is - the quality of line in rendering the anatomy is pure Adams.
My bro, who has one hell of an eye for this sort of thing, reckons that Dick Giordano had a hand in some of the inks here and I agree. There's some of his stylings on the penultimate panel's Ka-Zar for sure. He also thinks that Russ Heath probably inked the lizard creature.
Some lovely half-tone washes on this piece give it the volume and solidity which characterised black and white Marvel mags at their best in the 1970s.
In all, one hell of a sweet page and a great example of a Bronze Age Marvel Masterpiece!
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About Neal Adams
Neal Adams is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates. Adams was inducted into the Eisner Award's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998, and the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999.
