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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 21:47:24 GMT -5
More Gil Kane works  Green Lantern #38 Pencils by Gil Kane and Inks by Murphy Anderson  |
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Post by batusi on Dec 11, 2017 22:27:16 GMT -5
I would have never guessed that Tales to Astonish cover was by Gil Kane.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 12, 2017 1:11:59 GMT -5
Myself, I tend to think of Gil Kane as a Spider-Man artist first and foremost. I really enjoyed his run on Amazing Spider-Man in the early '70s and, of course, he drew one of the most iconic pages in all comic history, the death of Gwen Stacy...  There's a lot more to Kane's run on ASM than that iconic page, of course. Paired with writers like Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway and Stan Lee, he helped make that era of ASM highly enjoyable and very memorable. Here are a few of my favourite Kane ASM covers...     We get some classic, Kane "up-the-nose" shots on this cover...  ..and again here...  Gil Kane also did a handful of covers for Marvel's Star Wars comic, including issue #3, which featured part of the comic adaptation of the original movie...  Surely the crowning of achievement of Kane's entire career though was in rendering Jaxxon, the 6ft tall, carnivorous, space-bunny in his first two cover appearances in Star Wars #8 and #9...   |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 1:55:00 GMT -5
I strongly considered this one for the other thread, it was option #3; a book I don't think many have read (though I did review it in the From the Sorcerer's Scroll thread...  I also adore his work on Star Hawks...  the full image the cover was taken from...  and a sample strip  it was also collected by Blackthorne in the 1980s...  he also did the Tarzan strip with Archie Goodwin for a while...  one of my favorites is Kane's cover to Supernatural Thrillers #3 adapting Robert E. Howard's Valley of the Worm...  Kane does the interiors as well...   -M |
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 12, 2017 7:57:10 GMT -5
mrp; I loved Valley of the Worm too. I posted pages on the "scans" thread.
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Post by MWGallaher on Dec 12, 2017 9:30:05 GMT -5
In the mid-70's, Kane did some art for comic book inserts in Aurora's "Comic Scenes" line of plastic model kits. Here's his original art for the Tonto comic:  |
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Post by batusi on Dec 12, 2017 9:30:23 GMT -5
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Post by MWGallaher on Dec 12, 2017 9:33:55 GMT -5
Kane's surviving pencils for an All-Star Western Comics cover that was inked by Alex Toth. Evidently, Toth inked over a light-boxed tracing or something...  |
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 12, 2017 16:02:08 GMT -5
Myself, I tend to think of Gil Kane as a Spider-Man artist first and foremost. I really enjoyed his run on Amazing Spider-Man in the early '70s and, of course, he drew one of the most iconic pages in all comic history, the death of Gwen Stacy... There's a lot more to Kane's run on ASM than that iconic page, of course. Paired with writers like Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway and Stan Lee, he helped make that era of ASM highly enjoyable and very memorable. Here are a few of my favourite Kane ASM covers... All when working with Romita, who added a gloriously dynamic "punch" to Kane's work. They were one of the best pencil/ink teams in comics history, no matter which one handles either job. Oh, I believe the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #90 had Romita layouts, although the cover is signed by both. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Dec 12, 2017 17:01:53 GMT -5
All when working with Romita, who added a gloriously dynamic "punch" to Kane's work. They were one of the best pencil/ink teams in comics history, no matter which one handles either job. When did Kane ink Romita? |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 12, 2017 18:25:02 GMT -5
Oh, I believe the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #90 had Romita layouts, although the cover is signed by both. Oh, really? I wasn't aware of that. The Grand Comics Database says it's Kane's pencils and Romita's inks on the front cover of ASM #90, so I assumed the layout and design was all Kane's. |
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 12, 2017 19:14:34 GMT -5
Oh, I believe the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #90 had Romita layouts, although the cover is signed by both. Oh, really? I wasn't aware of that. The Grand Comics Database says it's Kane's pencils and Romita's inks on the front cover of ASM #90, so I assumed the layout and design was all Kane's. I've seen a pencil rough of the cover from Romita, so assuming it was legitimate, he created the concept, and probably penciled it. Spider-Man's body seems more Romita influenced than Kane. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 12, 2017 20:06:09 GMT -5
One of the funnier incidents in Gil's career, in retrospect if not at the time - he was asked to draw a cover for WildC.A.T.S./Aliens, and due to miscommunication with the editor, Gil drew a generic alien, not the Giger aliens from the movie series. The editor had to double the inker's fee to have him redraw the alien.   |
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Post by Jeddak on Dec 12, 2017 20:52:22 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 12, 2017 21:22:03 GMT -5
Here are a couple of pages from Marvel Two in One #1 & #2. Inks by Joe Sinnot (a rare combo) I have heard Kane did not like the inks, but I thought his artwork looked great with Joe's inks.   |
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