Dark Paddington went up against Dark Corduroy in the Night of the Blood-Bears crossover event. 

I beg to differ......Yale graduate and world-renowned polo player screams superhero to me!

"Look, on the back of that pony....."

"It's a plutocrat!"

"It's an heir to the throne!"

"No; it's Yale Man!"

It gets crueler.... check out this guy’s plight.

Not always the case with the stuff I grew up reading, great inkers often made a difference, like Austin with Byrne on X-Men. And speaking of Kirby, I know we're supposed to worship him, but he wasn't really the greatest artist though I admired him for his "narrative storytelling" ability and overall creativity. The Sinnott inks made FF a much more visually compelling book IMO. Mahlstedt (who never gets credit) definitely made Giffen look better on Legion (something I didn't figure out until really studying it for awhile).

Some inkers just seemed to simply "make stuff better" when I was growing up like the aforementioned Austin and guys like Layton. Not every great penciler has the same level of inking skill.

Yeah, but the big "pin-up" shot is never fair, that's always like the best work! In all seriousness, I get your point and I understand what you are saying about the list you mentioned, it was the last comment "I think you can safely say the best inker on an artist is the artist themselves" which feels like a more comprehensive statement.

Rovin was including mythical figures who had powers or abilities akin to superheroes and who were literary influences on the superhero genre.  Otherwise, he mostly stuck to costumed heroes from comic books, plus costumed pulp heroes or those who were major influences on comic book heroes, like Doc Savage and The Shadow.

He also did an Encyclopedia of Adventure Heroes that was wider ranging, mostly leaving out superheroes, but adding western heroes, spies, private detectives, characters like Indiana Jones and monster fighters.  That one was a better resource for adventure and mystery literature, for me, than his encyclopedias of super heroes and super villains were, for comics.  The Super Hero book was marred, in my opinion, with some of his personal opinions.  He was far more enthralled with the Atlas/Seaboard heroes than I was.  Coincidentally, he edited most of them, before leaving the company.  He also trashed the Justice Machine and his comments, to me, read like he only saw one of the original Noble Comics issues (his book predated the Comico series).  He dismissed it as amateurish.  I found that it was a great concept that suffered from some bad reproduction and a lot of hands on the inking.  By the third issue, it had found its groove and was getting very interesting by the 4th and 5th, as well as the annual, with the THUNDER Agents crossover.  When it was retooled for Comico, it got really good, at times, then kind of floundered.  Tony Isabella was a big part of improving things and Mike Gustovich could take more time, with the art and reworked some of the costumes.