JadeGiant Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 zhamlau, Twanj, batman_fan and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glendgold Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 I got very very late onto Sal's commission list and the request went unfulfilled - I wanted an Elf with a Gun, as a page with him on it is pretty much the final missing piece of my collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glendgold Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/20/2022 at 6:18 AM, JadeGiant said: Oh, it won't stop at 4 - trust me Hey, how many pages did Sal draw? That's the number we're looking to replicate. MAY1979, tth2, Rick2you2 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeGiant Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/20/2022 at 12:16 PM, glendgold said: Hey, how many pages did Sal draw? That's the number we're looking to replicate. I like the cut of your jib sir! I'd like to have all of his Hulk pages but that won't happen - almost to 50 of them, a long way to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummy Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 I liked Sal and Joe S. on the Hulk, mostly because #199 was the very first comic I read along with FF #172. Perez/Sinnott certainly gave me more artistic punch of the two, but there was something about Hulk's savagery under Sal's pencils that made the action come alive. Would love more Sal Hulk pages in time; am actually working to get my first splash page as we speak! Dan MAY1979 and JadeGiant 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chaykin Stevens Posted April 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2022 On 4/20/2022 at 5:16 PM, glendgold said: Hey, how many pages did Sal draw? That's the number we're looking to replicate. According to Mike's Amazing World, Sal pencilled 13578 pages (7th most prolific), inked 8539 pages (33rd most prolific) and worked on a total of 18750 pages (again 7th most prolific). batman_fan, JadeGiant, zhamlau and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glendgold Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 (edited) On 4/21/2022 at 3:31 PM, Chaykin Stevens said: According to Mike's Amazing World, Sal pencilled 13578 pages (7th most prolific), inked 8539 pages (33rd most prolific) and worked on a total of 18750 pages (again 7th most prolific). We are ants. Edited April 23, 2022 by glendgold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Drummy Posted April 23, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2022 Speaking of Sal, I was at the NJ Art Con this morning and saw the dealer who bought this recently...had the entire book up for sale. Not an important issue, but a cool one with lots of action and heroes. Dan KirbyJack, MagnusX, batman_fan and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eelco Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 On 4/23/2022 at 9:47 PM, Drummy said: Speaking of Sal, I was at the NJ Art Con this morning and saw the dealer who bought this recently...had the entire book up for sale. Not an important issue, but a cool one with lots of action and heroes. Dan Wow cool and rare to see such a complete seventies book by Sal! Thanks to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaeld Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 On 4/21/2022 at 3:31 PM, Chaykin Stevens said: According to Mike's Amazing World, Sal pencilled 13578 pages (7th most prolific), inked 8539 pages (33rd most prolific) and worked on a total of 18750 pages (again 7th most prolific). Who were the first 6? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post joeypost Posted April 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) On 4/23/2022 at 11:02 PM, Michaeld said: Who were the first 6? Rank Name Pages Stories 1 Stan Goldberg 21423 3703 2 Jack Kirby 19021 1519 3 Curt Swan 18916 1419 4 John Buscema 18029 823 5 John L. Byrne 16862 829 6 Gene Colan 15867 1239 7 Sal Buscema 13578 675 8 Carmine Infantino 13279 1108 9 Mark Bagley 12439 598 10 Gil Kane 12295 967 pencils Edited April 24, 2022 by joeypost buttock, MAY1979, Phill the Governor and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypost Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 On 4/24/2022 at 7:00 AM, joeypost said: Rank Name Pages Stories 1 Stan Goldberg 21423 3703 2 Jack Kirby 19021 1519 3 Curt Swan 18916 1419 4 John Buscema 18029 823 5 John L. Byrne 16862 829 6 Gene Colan 15867 1239 7 Sal Buscema 13578 675 8 Carmine Infantino 13279 1108 9 Mark Bagley 12439 598 10 Gil Kane 12295 967 Inker Rank Name Pages Stories 1 Michael Esposito 22878 2162 2 Scott Hanna 22100 963 3 Vince Colletta 20926 1623 4 Tom Palmer 17299 815 5 Giordano 14986 773 6 Allen Milgrom 14836 784 7 Josef Rubinstein 14022 602 8 Klaus Janson 13671 607 9 Danny K. Miki 12964 568 10 Robert Allen Smith 12952 1174 Phill the Governor and Twanj 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Latverian Tourism Board Posted April 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) I will add my entries for Sal’s godliness here. Talaoc shares in the divine spark on that Ufoes page. The rest is all Sal. Edited February 10, 2023 by Latverian Tourism Board zhamlau, gumbydarnit, JadeGiant and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 I like that last page. Nicely done. Latverian Tourism Board 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumbydarnit Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 On 4/24/2022 at 9:10 AM, Latverian Tourism Board said: I will add my entries for Sal’s godliness here. Talaoc shares in the divine spark on that Ufoes page. The rest is all Sal. Very nice Sal collection… Ufoes were really very memorable! CONGRATS! Latverian Tourism Board 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DeadpoolJr. Posted April 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) Besides the amount of art Sal has done he's also known for how he signs his pages. Not always in the most desired parts in the negative space of the art itself. Edited April 24, 2022 by DeadpoolJr. MagnusX, Latverian Tourism Board, Twanj and 5 others 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAY1979 Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) On 4/24/2022 at 9:00 AM, joeypost said: Rank Name Pages Stories 1 Stan Goldberg 21423 3703 2 Jack Kirby 19021 1519 3 Curt Swan 18916 1419 4 John Buscema 18029 823 5 John L. Byrne 16862 829 6 Gene Colan 15867 1239 7 Sal Buscema 13578 675 8 Carmine Infantino 13279 1108 9 Mark Bagley 12439 598 10 Gil Kane 12295 967 pencils Wow, I had no idea Byrne and Big John were that prolific. Also surprised Dan Decarlo and Warren Kremer did not make into the top 10. Edited April 25, 2022 by MAR1979 Phill the Governor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post zhamlau Posted April 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2022 Ha....I don't check in on the boards for a bit and a little anarchy ensues. Well, it appears ARTSOC has failed in our noble effort to keep "The Average" in his place. Even party loyalists are coming out admitting his importance and value to the industry and among his peers...I never thought I would see the day... So, all cards on the table I guess. I like Sal (obviously) both as an artist but also as a historically significant comic book artist. My thoughts on this are pretty clear. 1. 7th all time on the pages pencilled list. That alone makes you one of the greats. You don't get that much work if you aren't that skilled. Inkers can something slide by with lesser efforts and still get paid, pencillers not so much. 2. . Worked consistently from 1968-2014 due to the caliber of his craft and not just nostalgia like most others on this list. He even worked on a story in 2020 for marvel, and the work was still good. To be consistent for so many decades and be able to work on so many varied stories for so many different publishers, I can't think of anyone else like him in that regard. 3. 34th all time most pages inked, that alone is impressive. Whats more though, I think the only guy on both lists with similar numbers is John Byrne (and he was mostly just inking himself). To be able to mesh with so many other artists as both a penciller and inker to the point you are HOF caliber in both over a 50+ year span, that is unique in comic book history. 4. The man is 86 years old, and he is still doing high quality commissions of varied and unique characters. I've seen work from him over the last 5 years that looked like something he could have done in the 1970's (my favorite era for his work). How many artists have ever been capable of that? So many later in life commissions by some of the greats are mere shadows of the work they produced while in their prime. The same can no be said for Sal's output. That shows a love and dedication to the craft. That means something, at least to me. 5. The man did almost 14k pages while only working on 675 stories. Think about that, most of these guys "padded" those numbers by doing tons of fill in pages on huge jam books with multiple artists. Sal's output is almost exclusively as a penciller on books he was the primary artist on. The books sank or swam with him as the artist because he was usually pencilling all the pages. And he was so good, so consistent, he was given decades and decades of first run titles to pencil and almost all from the varied main stream publishers. It wasn't all self published or single character runs for one company. He could and did work as the primary artist carrying the book on dozens and dozens of different runs. He could and did work on any almost any character for any publisher who needed quality work done in quick order. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the guy. Him being a good dude who is humble as heck and good to fans of course plays a part in this as well. But just on the quality, scope, and longevity of his work I say the man is a top 10 comic book artist of all time and a top 5 marvel artist specifically. KirbyJack, Lee B., JadeGiant and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsumavila Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 On 4/26/2022 at 12:30 PM, zhamlau said: Ha....I don't check in on the boards for a bit and a little anarchy ensues. Well, it appears ARTSOC has failed in our noble effort to keep "The Average" in his place. Even party loyalists are coming out admitting his importance and value to the industry and among his peers...I never thought I would see the day... So, all cards on the table I guess. I like Sal (obviously) both as an artist but also as a historically significant comic book artist. My thoughts on this are pretty clear. 1. 7th all time on the pages pencilled list. That alone makes you one of the greats. You don't get that much work if you aren't that skilled. Inkers can something slide by with lesser efforts and still get paid, pencillers not so much. 2. . Worked consistently from 1968-2014 due to the caliber of his craft and not just nostalgia like most others on this list. He even worked on a story in 2020 for marvel, and the work was still good. To be consistent for so many decades and be able to work on so many varied stories for so many different publishers, I can't think of anyone else like him in that regard. 3. 34th all time most pages inked, that alone is impressive. Whats more though, I think the only guy on both lists with similar numbers is John Byrne (and he was mostly just inking himself). To be able to mesh with so many other artists as both a penciller and inker to the point you are HOF caliber in both over a 50+ year span, that is unique in comic book history. 4. The man is 86 years old, and he is still doing high quality commissions of varied and unique characters. I've seen work from him over the last 5 years that looked like something he could have done in the 1970's (my favorite era for his work). How many artists have ever been capable of that? So many later in life commissions by some of the greats are mere shadows of the work they produced while in their prime. The same can no be said for Sal's output. That shows a love and dedication to the craft. That means something, at least to me. 5. The man did almost 14k pages while only working on 675 stories. Think about that, most of these guys "padded" those numbers by doing tons of fill in pages on huge jam books with multiple artists. Sal's output is almost exclusively as a penciller on books he was the primary artist on. The books sank or swam with him as the artist because he was usually pencilling all the pages. And he was so good, so consistent, he was given decades and decades of first run titles to pencil and almost all from the varied main stream publishers. It wasn't all self published or single character runs for one company. He could and did work as the primary artist carrying the book on dozens and dozens of different runs. He could and did work on any almost any character for any publisher who needed quality work done in quick order. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the guy. Him being a good dude who is humble as heck and good to fans of course plays a part in this as well. But just on the quality, scope, and longevity of his work I say the man is a top 10 comic book artist of all time and a top 5 marvel artist specifically. ALL OF THIS. I'll also add that aside from an astounding amount of work, Sal was involved with countless runs that are considered classics. The guy is a fantastic storyteller. KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post trimpehulk Posted April 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2022 The Man called …Sal Buscema Grant Turner, Spider-Variant, KirbyJack and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...