Sal Buscema appreciation thread.

[mica]

I realize he may never make someone's list of top three comic artists, but he deserves some recognition.

Thought I'd post some recent interiors of his as I read some of these to my son.

Enjoy.

[mica]

U-FOES

[mica]

Carrion

[mica]

My son digs this one. And he's disappointed that I don't have the Rom action figure.

[Jeffro.]

I always liked Sal's 70s and early 80's work. Later in the 80's, his lines got more angular and kinda blocky. You can see it in that Carrion page above.

[mica]

I always liked Sal's 70s and early 80's work. Later in the 80's, his lines got more angular and kinda blocky. You can see it in that Carrion page above.

Yes. Especially when he inks his own pencils.

[mica]

Marvel Comics

 

* Alpha Flight #33-34

* Amazing Spider-Man #154-155, 198-199

* Avengers #68-72, 86, 88-92, 127-134, 156, 169, 172-173, 193, 227

* Battlestar Galactica #8-9, 18

* Captain America #146-163, 165-178, 180-181, 185, 188, 218-223, 225-231, 233-237, 284-285

* Conan the Barbarian #92

* Daredevil #139-140, 218, 238, 356

* Fantastic Four #182-183, 190, 207-208, 313, Annual #13

* Ghost Rider #11

* Incredible Hulk #194-296, Annual #5, 8, 14-15

* Iron Man #129, 198, Annual #3

* Kull the Conqueror (vol. 2) #8

* Marvel Preview #19 (Kull the Conqueror)

* Marvel Spotlight #20-24, 32

* Marvel Team-Up #20-22, 32-46, 48-52, 56-58, 82, 85, 88, 130, 132-133, Annual #1-2

* Marvel Two-in-One #3-5, 7-8, 17, 19-20, 24, 42, Annual #3

* New Mutants #4-17, 54

* Nova #3-8

* Power Man #31

* Rampaging Hulk #3, 9

* Red Sonja #14

* Rom #1-55, 57-58

* Savage Sword of Conan #37, 39, 44, 116

* Spectacular Spider-Man #1-5, 7-10, 12-20, 38, 134-238

* Tarzan #19-29, Annual #2-3

* Thor #214, 368-369, 371-382, Annual #6

* What If? #12, 44

* X-Men #66

 

DC Comics

 

* Batman Chronicles #8

* Creeper (vol. 3) #8

* Detective Comics Annual #10

* Superboy (vol. 3) #37, 42-44

* Superman: The Man of Steel #65

 

[Jeffro.]

His later work on Rom, inked by Akin & Garvey, had a real nice look to it.

 

I think I have a Spidey page he did. I'll have to check.

[Silver Surfer]

Wow those panels sure bring back some great memories.

[RockMyAmadeus]

Sal Buscema...as angular and akward as his work was....is forever...FOREVER...important to me for two reasons:

 

1. He drew a LOT of Rom. Rom #47 was the sole and only comic book I remember from my childhood. I don't remember anything about owning it, other than that I read it, and the first three pages were awesome and creepy. That book was, of course, drawn by Sal Buscema. As the only comic I even remember from my childhood, well....it's kinda important.

 

2. He was the in-house artist for Spectacular Spiderman when I first started buying comics in 1989-1990. Every month, I'd pick up a new Spec Spidey, expecting to see Sal's art, and I was never disappointed. Highlights were the Cosmic Spidey story, and the unbelievably underrated Child Within from #178-183.

 

 

I really, really miss picking up new books drawn by him. I really do. Those Spec Spideys every month formed some exceptionally powerful memories for me. I don't think I even realized how powerful until I started to type this out....wow....

 

 

If someone does an SS with the old chap (he's 74, after all), I think I know exactly what I'd do: Rom #47, Spec. Spidey #178-183.

 

Maybe some more.

 

And I'd never, ever sell them.

 

Seriously, just sitting here thinking about what was happening in my life when those books came out has really opened up the memory flood....

[RockMyAmadeus]

Seriously, Mica, I can't believe how powerful a reaction I've had thinking about this...

 

I know it probably sounds silly reading it, but I really loved his work, and love it still, all angular and everything. I guess he was just a constant in my life that I loved and looked forward to, in a rough time in my life.

 

[chrisco37]

2. He was the in-house artist for Spectacular Spiderman when I first started buying comics in 1989-1990. Every month, I'd pick up a new Spec Spidey, expecting to see Sal's art, and I was never disappointed. Highlights were the Cosmic Spidey story, and the unbelievably underrated Child Within from #178-183.

 

I far prefer his early Spectacular Spidey stuff to the latter, more angular style. It seemed like once McSpidey got big, Sal switched his style. I hated it. It was right around the late 130's (Tombstone issue?) that the change happened. His art was better, IMO, on the Sin Eater storyline of the mid-130's.

 

He was once a very good artist. One of those reliable Marvel bullpen guys that could crank them out in the "Marvel Style".

 

I like old Sal. New Sal, not so much (at all).