Frisco Larson

While I acknowledge some shortcomings from time to time, I've also thought Don Heck has been a bit unfairly criticized, mostly by being compared to Kirby. I agree that when he was afforded the opportunity to ink his own pencils, you get a truer realization of his vision. The prices of his original art have been steadily increasing, so maybe others have also softened their opinion of his work. As difficult as it is in this current original art climate, I'm attempting to capture different Marvel Silver artists rendition of different characters. I was very happy to add this page from Avengers #13 to my collection, as it contains the entire Avengers team as well as the entire Fantastic Four. Don Heck pencils and Ayers inks. It was pretty expensive, but seldom do you see so many characters on a single page. My favorite superhero page that I own.

This is probably my favorite PHM cover!!! I have quite a few copies and LOVE the Heck artwork and Kirby splash! In fact, the Kirby splash was used as a cover to a UK printing of this book!

Jughead chooses food over girls to Jughead chooses food over girls.

Woman abducted to woman abducted.

Under attack at the beach to under attack at the beach.

Agreed! When they're really banana yellow, it sets them apart and I bet it did at the newsstand too!

Your guess is as good as mine, but Romita was responsible for creating a unified look to the main characters, so perhaps he felt or was told to retouch it.

I only have the two on the ends of this block

There might already be a DC thread, but I'm not sure about that. Nice books btw!!!

No pedigree copy for me Billy Boy, but I DO have a nice copy.

Battleship under attack to battleship under attack.

Simple Batman and Robin to simple Batman and Robin.

Rawhide Kid #44