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Who drew the most covers...

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mrlatko

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Comics.org finds 905 covers drawn by Gil Kane from 1970 to 1984 for Marvel. This includes reprint covers. Here they are:

 

Gil Kane's Marvel Bronze Covers

 

Here are some others I queried:

Jack Kirby - 453

John Buscema - 405

Herb Trimpe - 273

Rich Buckler - 236

John Byrne - 204

Dave Cockrum - 167

Frank Miller - 138

Mike Zeck - 138

Gene Colan - 137

Sal Buscema - 136

George Perez - 111

Jim Starlin - 82

 

These numbers are not accurate as I noticed they count price variants and foreign versions in the total, meaning 1 cover may be counted 2 or 3 times, so most of these counts are too high but give you a general idea as to the artists output during the period in relation to the others.

 

Any other Marvel BA heavy-weights I missed?

 

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mrlatko

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I figured out how to do a better search without the duplicates. These numbers should be more accurate, and did flip the order a bit. Also added Ernie Chan and a couple others. These are just Marvel BA covers:

 

Gil Kane - 866

John Romita, Sr. - 459?

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 50

 

The Romitas did 509 covers between them, most of which by senior. 370 of these were done before 1978, around the time Jr. started for Marvel. John Romita Jr. shows 50 covers total, so 509 - 50 = 459 covers for senior, but I didn't verify these myself. Looks like Romita Senior eclipsed Kirby during this period.

 

Any other Marvel artists that might fit into this list somewhere?

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telerites

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I figured out how to do a better search without the duplicates. These numbers should be more accurate, and did flip the order a bit. Also added Ernie Chan and a couple others. These are just Marvel covers:

 

Gil Kane - 866

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 46

 

Thanks for all your research. As much as I have used GCD, I didn't know you could do searches like this. My suspicion was Kane and from your numbers - it is him by a longshot.

 

How about DC?

 

Aparo and Kubert should be front-runners, I would think.

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mrlatko

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I figured out how to do a better search without the duplicates. These numbers should be more accurate, and did flip the order a bit. Also added Ernie Chan and a couple others. These are just Marvel covers:

 

Gil Kane - 866

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 46

 

Thanks for all your research. As much as I have used GCD, I didn't know you could do searches like this. My suspicion was Kane and from your numbers - it is him by a longshot.

 

How about DC?

 

Aparo and Kubert should be front-runners, I would think.

 

Edited the above numbers in the previous post. Romita Senior was added and is number 2 ahead of Kirby! :o

 

I'll do DC later.

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mrlatko

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How about Al Milgrom or Ron Wilson - I remember seeing their stuff on a lot of covers. Not sure how they stack up against the rest of the artists on the Marvel list.

 

 

Milgrom and Wilson added to the list. Nice call on those two, both with over 200 BA covers each.

 

Updated Marvel BA cover artist list:

 

Gil Kane - 866

John Romita, Sr. - 459?

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Al Milgrom - 231

Ron Wilson - 218

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 50

 

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I figured out how to do a better search without the duplicates. These numbers should be more accurate, and did flip the order a bit. Also added Ernie Chan and a couple others. These are just Marvel covers:

 

Gil Kane - 866

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 46

 

Thanks for all your research. As much as I have used GCD, I didn't know you could do searches like this. My suspicion was Kane and from your numbers - it is him by a longshot.

 

How about DC?

 

Aparo and Kubert should be front-runners, I would think.

 

Edited the above numbers in the previous post. Romita Senior was added and is number 2 ahead of Kirby! :o

 

I'll do DC later.

 

For DC I gotta think Adams and Kubert are up there, but ya Gil Kane did so much art in the BA especially the picture frame run.

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I figured out how to do a better search without the duplicates. These numbers should be more accurate, and did flip the order a bit. Also added Ernie Chan and a couple others. These are just Marvel covers:

 

Gil Kane - 866

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 46

 

Thanks for all your research. As much as I have used GCD, I didn't know you could do searches like this. My suspicion was Kane and from your numbers - it is him by a longshot.

 

How about DC?

 

Aparo and Kubert should be front-runners, I would think.

 

Edited the above numbers in the previous post. Romita Senior was added and is number 2 ahead of Kirby! :o

 

I'll do DC later.

 

For DC I gotta think Adams and Kubert are up there, but ya Gil Kane did so much art in the BA especially the picture frame run.

 

If you were to draw the line at 1976, I'd be willing to bet Nick Cardy had more than either Kubert or Adams.

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jbud73

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I figured out how to do a better search without the duplicates. These numbers should be more accurate, and did flip the order a bit. Also added Ernie Chan and a couple others. These are just Marvel covers:

 

Gil Kane - 866

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 46

 

Thanks for all your research. As much as I have used GCD, I didn't know you could do searches like this. My suspicion was Kane and from your numbers - it is him by a longshot.

 

How about DC?

 

Aparo and Kubert should be front-runners, I would think.

 

Edited the above numbers in the previous post. Romita Senior was added and is number 2 ahead of Kirby! :o

 

I'll do DC later.

 

For DC I gotta think Adams and Kubert are up there, but ya Gil Kane did so much art in the BA especially the picture frame run.

 

If you were to draw the line at 1976, I'd be willing to bet Nick Cardy had more than either Kubert or Adams.

 

But Z the BA didn't end in '76 now did it. :baiting:

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I figured out how to do a better search without the duplicates. These numbers should be more accurate, and did flip the order a bit. Also added Ernie Chan and a couple others. These are just Marvel covers:

 

Gil Kane - 866

Jack Kirby - 417

John Buscema - 386

Herb Trimpe - 267

Rich Buckler - 209

Dave Cockrum - 153

John Byrne - 151

Sal Buscema - 132

Gene Colan - 129

Frank Miller - 114

Jim Starlin - 102

George Perez - 91

Mike Zeck - 85

Bob Layton - 85

Ernie Chan - 63

John Romita Jr. - 46

 

Thanks for all your research. As much as I have used GCD, I didn't know you could do searches like this. My suspicion was Kane and from your numbers - it is him by a longshot.

 

How about DC?

 

Aparo and Kubert should be front-runners, I would think.

 

Edited the above numbers in the previous post. Romita Senior was added and is number 2 ahead of Kirby! :o

 

I'll do DC later.

 

For DC I gotta think Adams and Kubert are up there, but ya Gil Kane did so much art in the BA especially the picture frame run.

 

If you were to draw the line at 1976, I'd be willing to bet Nick Cardy had more than either Kubert or Adams.

 

I agree. Nick did covers in every genre.

 

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