I felt the same way. Robbins' art captured the golden age look the series needed.

Frank Robbins was just as much of an inducement for buying the Invaders as seeing the Golden Age characters in Roy Thomas stories was. That his style was jarring compared to Marvel's house style was the point. He was perfect for the look and spirit of the title.

And absolutely, Springer's inks were much better on Robbins' pencils than Colletta's were, but even asa colletta-disser, I never thought Vinnie's inks took very much away from the headlong old-fashioned style of Robbins' artwork.

 

Perhaps the Sickles/ Caniff heavy blacks took some getting-used-to, and I'll admit, gave Robbins' art a "smudgy" look at times, I still much preferred it to the blandness of the Sal Buscema look of most Marvel comics.

Robbins' art always reminded me of the work of Frank Borth, just darker in presentation.

It is a good pairing to have an earlier style or older artist on a comic set in the past. There was a '70s Fred Kida Captain America I remember liking a lot though not set in the past. I love the Mike Parobeck Justice Society comics as much for the classic art style as the story.

I think there have been Supergirl comics with art I didn't like that I bought or kept just because they were Supergirl and I didn't want to break a run of issues... although I think it may've been a lot more about try-out costumes for the issue more than the artwork I didn't like. I do remember Tales Of Suspense #49 having rather poor art with a Ditko/Reinman combination, but it was early, an X-Men crossover, and I figured it was probably a real rush job. Looking at it now online it doesn't look bad at all, especially from the original art pages! I thought the Don Heck Iron Man and Ant-Man/Giant Man comics I had were all great so a bit of a drop from those anyway. Perlin and Springer were also very good as inkers I always found.

I love the way Tigra is glaring in that Avengers page. I would say the inking and coloring let's the pencils down.

There was a time when Bob Kane really was, if not the primary artist, then the guy who did most of artwork on Batman.  I'm not saying the period lasted very long (say, from 1939 until about 1942) but his last couple of years on the character were absolutely horrid.  Batman looked like he was about three feet tall and made up of round, globular muscles to the point where he looked as if someone had to bend his joints into those awkward 90 degree angles for him between panels because there was no way this guy was moving of his own accord.  Cross-eyed criminals who got hit would be depicted with their tongue hanging out of their mouths sometimes with little birdies tweeting around their skulls, and everything looked so stiff - even corpses looked exaggeratedly lifeless!  

The thing is, I think his 1939/early 1940 stuff is great and I suppose the change came when the Batman title came around with its extra four stories an issue compared with the single stories he was previously doing for Detective, but man, how I would have loved to seen the first appearance of The Penguin, Two-Face, and the Scarecrow drawn by anybody else.  It's like listening to The Beatles catalogue sung by Gilbert Gottfried.

I think so. I remember reading somewhere that Marvel had told Robbins to "amp" up or emphasize the hero/action to being more exaggerated/Marvel like than his usual style. Don't remember the specifics or the actual article or magazine though. I could be mis-remembering but I think in the article,  Robbins himself said that he had a difficult time adjusting to the exaggerated super heroics poses.