Title with the best Artists 0

[TheBigJ]

Perhaps discussed in another thread, but was thinking about this and have some thoughts. IMHO the title with the best artists is The Fantastic Four.

Kirby, Buscema, Perez, Byrne - tough to beat  - well over 250+ issues I believe.

# of issues is deciding factor for me.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Amazing Spider-Man. Ditko, Romita, Kane, Andru over 185 issues. 

[paqart]

Fantastic Four is the title the leapt to mind for me as well. ASM is a good title, not to mention later runs after the first 185 issues by Romita jr, Byrne, and others. However, Kirby and Buscema's FF is much more interesting to me as an integration of story and art. ASM had some excellent stories, but the FF felt more imaginative to me. The Avengers had a similar quality, with the same creative teams as the FF for most of its run. However, it didn't last as long with the Avengers as the FF.

If we expanded the scope of this question a little bit to include anthologies, I would pick Carl Barks' run on Walt Disney Comics and Stories. The stories, though less crammed with epic adventure stories than the Uncle Scrooge and Four Color Donald Duck stories by Barks, are still full of interesting and entertaining material.

Edited July 25, 2023 by paqart

[paqart]

Now that I think of it, Action and Detective had a lot of good artists as well. Curt Swan, though more of a cartoonist than an "illustrator" was an excellent comic book artist. His run on Action Comics is one of the longest, if not the longest, run of any artist on any comic. Byrne, Kubert, and other notables also worked on the title, but none with the same impact as Swan. Detective had loads of excellent artists, though none dominated the title Swan dominated Action, or Kirby on FF, or Romita on ASM. Detective had Neal Adams, Michael Kaluta, Frank Robbins, Jim Aparo, MR. Giordano, Marshall Rogers, Walt Simonson (though not his best work), and many others.

Edited July 25, 2023 by paqart

[Dave2739]

On 7/25/2023 at 4:58 PM, paqart said:

Now that I think of it, Action and Detective had a lot of good artists as well. Curt Swan, though more of a cartoonist than an "illustrator" was an excellent comic book artist. His run on Action Comics is one of the longest, if not the longest, run of any artist on any comic. Byrne, Kubert, and other notables also worked on the title, but none with the same impact as Swan. Detective had loads of excellent doses, though none dominated the title Swan dominated Action, or Kirby on FF, or Romita on ASM. Detective had Neal Adams, Michael Kaluta, Frank Robbins, Jim Aparo, MR. Giordano, Marshall Rogers, Walt Simonson (though not his best work), and many others.

Agreed regarding Detective. I would add that it also had a nice long run by Norm Breyfogle, a personal fav of mine. As well as shorter, but memorable runs by Alan Davis and Todd McFarlane. 

[Garystar]

On 7/25/2023 at 7:14 PM, TheBigJ said:

Perhaps discussed in another thread, but was thinking about this and have some thoughts. IMHO the title with the best artists is The Fantastic Four.

Kirby, Buscema, Perez, Byrne - tough to beat  - well over 250+ issues I believe.

# of issues is deciding factor for me.

 

Don’t forget Romita between Kirby and Buscema on FF. 

Daredevil was always my favourite - 100 issues of Everett, Wood, Romita, Colan and Barry Smith. After Colan left treaded water a bit until Frank Miller. 

Edited July 25, 2023 by Garystar

[Garystar]

What about shortest run of great artists X-men #50 - 65; Steranko, Barry Smith and Neal Adams. 

[OtherEric]

Weird Science.  Feldstein, Frazetta, Wood, Williamson, Kurtzman just to name 5

[paqart]

On 7/25/2023 at 5:55 PM, OtherEric said:

Weird Science.  Feldstein, Frazetta, Wood, Williamson, Kurtzman just to name 5

What I was going to say. Though, I might have gone for Buster Crabbe: Frazetta.

[Ken Aldred]

On 7/25/2023 at 10:55 PM, OtherEric said:

Weird Science.  Feldstein, Frazetta, Wood, Williamson, Kurtzman just to name 5

Would’ve been my pick, too.

[Ken Aldred]

Love and Rockets

Always liked Jaime Hernandez’s artwork.

[Ken Aldred]

Also, possibly Nexus for Steve Rude’s work.

[Readcomix]

I’ll add a dark horse — through various runs, Dr Strange — Ditko, Palmer, Colan, Brunner, Marshall Rogers.

[Ken Aldred]

On 7/25/2023 at 10:35 PM, Garystar said:

Daredevil was always my favourite - 100 issues of Everett, Wood, Romita, Colan and Barry Smith. After Colan left treaded water a bit until Frank Miller. 

Lots of good artists after Miller too; Mazzucchelli, Romita Jr, Weeks, Garney, Quesada, Maleev, Lark, Samnee.

[paqart]

On 7/25/2023 at 6:11 PM, Readcomix said:

I’ll add a dark horse — through various runs, Dr Strange — Ditko, Palmer, Colan, Brunner, Marshall Rogers.

BRunner's Dr. Strange is indeed a great little run. Thanks for the reminder. If we include that, I suppose Wrightson's 9 issues of Swamp Thing have to be added as well.

[Bird]

On 7/25/2023 at 6:11 PM, Readcomix said:

I’ll add a dark horse — through various runs, Dr Strange — Ditko, Palmer, Colan, Brunner, Marshall Rogers.

PAUL SMITH, BILL EVERETT, and even more, good modern artists as well...Buckingham, Tony Harris, Tradd Moore

[Readcomix]

On 7/25/2023 at 7:20 PM, Bird said:

PAUL SMITH, BILL EVERETT, and even more, good modern artists as well...Buckingham, Tony Harris, Tradd Moore

Thank you, how did I forget Everett?? 
 

The others I wasn’t aware of.

 

Edited July 25, 2023 by Readcomix

[Ken Aldred]

Creepy / Eerie

Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, John Severin, Johnny Craig, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Bernie Wrightson, Steve Ditko, Neal Adams, Jeff Jones, Tom Sutton, Richard Corben, Jim Starlin, Alex Nino, Mike Ploog, Frank Brunner, Bruce Jones, Russ Heath, Jose Ortiz...

House of Mystery / House of Secrets would be similar, with, from memory; Toth, Wood, Wrightson, Williamson, Heath, Adams, Nino, and Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, Mike Kaluta, Nick Cardy, Gil Kane, Jim Aparo, and Michael Golden.

Edited July 26, 2023 by Ken Aldred

[OtherEric]

On 7/25/2023 at 5:09 PM, Ken Aldred said:

Creepy / Eerie

Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, John Severin, Johnny Craig, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Bernie Wrightson, Steve Ditko, Neal Adams, Jeff Jones, Tom Sutton, Richard Corben, Jim Starlin, Alex Nino, Mike Ploog, Frank Brunner, Bruce Jones, Russ Heath, Jose Ortiz...

House of Mystery / House of Secrets would be similar, with, from memory; Toth, Wood, Wrightson, Williamson, Heath, Adams, Nino, and Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, Mike Kaluta, Nick Cardy, Gil Kane, Jim Aparo, and Michael Golden.

Creepy is another good call.  If we're extending to comic Magazines, MAD has a pretty incredible lineup over the years as well.

[PopKulture]

On 7/25/2023 at 5:11 PM, Readcomix said:

I’ll add a dark horse — through various runs, Dr Strange — Ditko, Palmer, Colan, Brunner, Marshall Rogers.

I wouldn’t hesitate to add Dan Adkins name to that list.