If The Avengers is not my favorite title in the history of Marvel Comics, little is missing. And because of the sweet moments that are going through the characters (including future movie recent shift in their current collections and interesting volumes have appeared Marvel Gold, and will continue to appear, over this year), it seemed appropriate to publish this post where I will make a brief review of trajectory of my 5 key artists in the history of Marvel, at the head of the mightiest heroes of the land.
The 5 artists who I refer are: Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Neal Adams, Gene Colan and John Byrne. They would come immediately after George Perez and Alan Davis, but it is clear that the thing would complicate and perhaps after Perez and Davis could be added Also Sal Buscema, Stuart Immonen or Steve Epting, with what I decided to focus on my 5 key on the other side should be clear that there are the 5 most important artists of the group's history, not at all (if so would George Pérez fixed), but simply my favorites.
The review is interesting, because while some of these 5 teachers has made important and historic step in the longstanding history of the characters, others have played the title almost on tiptoe, covering a handful of single issues between two different stages no more. But we already have the little review, seasoned with various mythical covers by the five artists in question.
Jack Kirby Avengers: The Avengers 1-8 (1963-1964).
King Kirby
think the characters, drew the first 8 numbers and gave way to Don Heck, who would be responsible for the artistic part of the title for a long period. Kirby and worked well in other Marvel titles of the 60, and that despite his enormous talent and drawing speed was human and obviously could not draw all the collections of the Marvel of the time at once, or at least not large level, which eventually became permanently drawing Thor and the Fantastic 4, while it was giving up the post of draftsman of the other titles home to other artists.
The Avengers 16 (1965).
Anyway back to the pens of the Avengers to illustrate the number 16, which housed one of the most significant adventures of the entire history of the characters. A moment that, based primarily on a drastic change in alignment on the computer, it would mark the future of the Avengers and define the spirit of the group for many years.
John Buscema in Avengers: The Avengers 41-44, 46, 47, 49-62, 74-77, 79-85, 94 (half with Neal Adams), 97, 105, 121, 124, 125, 152 and 153 (first stage: 1967-1976).
John Buscema Avengers arrived shortly after to replace Roy Thomas Stan Lee as a writer of the title and they made one of the most memorable stages in the entire history of the characters. As Jim Steranko once said about the emergence of Big John in Marvel: Figures anatomical credible, walked Herculean proportions, razed, extended, and won their way through the Marvel universe as no one had done previously.
The Avengers 255-279 and 281-300 (second stage: 1985-1989).
mid 80's and after a long time without drawing the characters, John Buscema was again required to illustrate the most powerful heroes of the land, solidifying a long-running (and again memorable) stage in the title; this time accompanied by Roger Stern in the scripts and Tom Palmer (inker best that ever did) in the inks.
The Avengers Annual 23 (1994).
In 1994, John turned back to the pens of the Avengers, if only to illustrate this year number 23 of the collection, a small delicatessen drawn entirely by Big John, Inks included.
Gene Colan in Avengers: The Avengers 63-65 (1969) and 206-208, 210, 211 (1981).
In the case of teacher Colan, its contribution was limited to two small transitional stages. The first in the form of three single issues in the middle of the first major stage of John Buscema on the title (the long period Thomas, Buscema was a small slip in paragraph art by Big John, which was covered by these three n º Gene Colan and a handful of No illustrated the brother of John, Sal Buscema). The next stage of transition was many years later, just after the end of the first great stage artist George Pérez as the Avengers and shortly before the arrival of writer Roger Stern for the title.
Neal Adams in the Avengers: The Avengers 93, 94 (half with John Buscema), 95 and 96 (1971-1972). Neal Adams
hardly considered four issues of The Avengers, but they are absolutely historic four numbers for the characters as they form the main body of the legendary saga "The Kree-Skrull War." John Buscema had to draw several pages the number 94 and finally had to take charge of the number that ended the series, 97, due to slower than Neal Adams, who could not fully comply with the deadlines.
John Byrne Avengers: The Avengers 164-166 and 181-191 (1977-1980) and The Avengers Annual 13 (inking pencils Steve Ditko), 14 and 18 (1984-1989).
* Also took care of No. 305-317, but only as a scriptwriter. John Byrne
any stage illustrated not too long of The Avengers, but the sheer quality of his work makes this bunch of numbers into true classics. First it was the No 164 to 166, making up the call Nefaria Trilogy (mini-saga legend if ever there) and then those 11 consecutive No marked a memorable day, especially thanks to the saga known as Wundagore Nights.
Special mention annual No. 13 of The Avengers, John Byrne pencils inked on Steve Ditko; truly explosive combination.
The West Coast Avengers 42-57 and The West Coast Avengers Annual 4 (1989-1990).
Several years after having drawn the numbers previously mentioned The Avengers, John Byrne took over the reins of his, by then, sister title, The Avengers West Coast, to give us a bunch of stories as a complete author, drawing and illustrating the collection.
take the end of this post to announce that I will take a little vacation, nothing fancy, just a week without updating, but recharging batteries to go harder. The reasons are several: first the accumulation of stress and lack of time, sometimes play tricks. The other day I stopped to think of something very curious, took almost three years now running a blog about comic books and other basketball news, but now is a moment where I realized that the lack of time and self-obligation of updating blogs led me to a rather absurd situation: on one hand I have a blog about basketball, but I hardly have time to watch basketball games and on the other hand I have a blog about comics, but I'm just a long time reading comics, I lack the time, does that make sense ...?.
The other main reason is that for more than six months (time flies), the great Emilio Aurelio we proposed me and a number of people, be part of a new project on the 9 th Art in the network, and after nearly eight months since that day (and because of the eternal and cited lack of time), I realized that my contribution to the site, despite having gone through a very successful season, is flowing too dropper and this step the issue is going to be eternal. Before leaving desperate as I am doing lately, I preferred to take my vacation above to focus more on the site and to complete many of the fronts that I have opened it (I think the tireless work of Emilio deserve it), so on the one hand I will take a little vacation in blog (blogs) on the other I'll try to finish most of my contribution to the site that I have discussed and finally I'll try to enjoy something more than basketball and comics, closely following the NBA playoffs (which just started this weekend) and trying to read some comics. We continue to read soon ...
Ah, I forgot !!... The site that I comment, is still far from being officially launched, but has decided to open to visitors on hand, so you can be a first contact and those who want to visit and I wish to express their opinion on it . Here you have the link to the site (click ) adequate notice that is under construction and for now only the main pages are accessible and the block on Japan.
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