Showing posts with label Sal Buscema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sal Buscema. Show all posts

Saturday, May 26, 2018

A Faustian Beat-Down!

With a cover like this...

...you pretty know with metaphysical certitude that it's Dr. Faustus story.

On the other hand, if it were a Spider-Man cover, you could be 100% sure it was a Mysterio story.

[Editor's Note:

The exception that proves the rule!]

Anyway, Cap has thwarted the evil psychiatrist's latest scheme...but the fight's not over yet...




SAL BUSCEMA PUNCH!!!

You may think Cap won here...but wait until he gets Faustus' bill for this session!!

BONUS: Peggy Carter in action!

Oh, Peggy...

From Captain America #162 (1973). Amazing Spider-Man #170 is from 1977

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Still Better Than The Tom Cruise Version!

What am I grateful for this Thanksgiving?










Me, I'm thankful Sal Buscema got to draw Cap and the Falcon using swords & shields to carve up telepathic mummies.

From Captain America #166 (1973)

Monday, January 30, 2017

Manic Monday Triple Overtime--That Time The Hulk Fought Conan!!

Just a typical day when a sorcerer in the Microverse is using spells to try to summon a champion to rescue the land from a despot:



Yes, let us hear the terror of Conan...er, Kronak The Barbarian!

See, nothing like Conan!


See? Nothing at all like Conan!!



Gee, it's almost as if a ruthless barbarian would make a lousy ruler! Who would have thought?

Anyway, Hulk is not at all interested in this side-quest, until the locals pull the foolproof "have a little girl suggest that Hulk isn't strong enough for this task" gambit:


Well played, little girl!!

Hulk goes to the palace, but gets felled by magic. And King Conan Kronak is unimpressed by puny Banner:



Bruce is right, as Conan Kronak finds when he tries to slay Bruce in the arena:

Oh, Sal Buscema, I love you so!


A lot of hi jinks and distractions later, it's time for Hulk to put an end to Conan Kronak:




And thus endeth the reign of Conan Kronak the Barbarian.

From Incredible Hulk #201 (1976)

Friday, November 18, 2016

Friday Night Fights--heYELP Style!!

Marvel likes to make me cry.

And that's the basis of this week's Friday Night Fights

A few years after Jarella's tragic death, Hulk has discovered that the government is keeping her body at Gamma Base for scientific study.

He is not pleased.

He goes a bit amok, Captain Marvel keeps him from killing Glenn Talbot in a Super-Mandroid suit--"Super-Mandroid"!! Good gosh, Marvel movies, see how easy it is?!?!--and watches as Hulk finds the body of his deceased love:





KWOM!!!

Don't interrupt a mindless brute when he's cradling the corpse of his lover, Mar-Vell!!

Spacebooger doesn't feel too bad for Mar-Vell, because he's gonna be dead in a couple of years anyway.

Cosmic awareness didn't save Captain Marvel from getting smacked down in Incredible Hulk #246 (1980), by Bill Mantlo and Sal Freakin' Buscema

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? "heYELP," that's why! So go and vote!!


Monday, March 28, 2016

Manic Monday Triple Overtime--The Most Crime-Ridden City In America?!?

Captain America and the Falcon and hunting for clues to the origin/location of villain-posing-as-hero Moonstone, and Steve manages to put 2 and 2 together!

Of course Steve Rogers knows trivia and the claim to fame of every American city. Of course he does.

But, it turns out that Moonstone isn't the only baddie haunting the Nashville environs:


True, Sean Cassidy--no one would think to look for the Banshee at a Merle Haggard concert.

Oh, yeah, this was back when Banshee was not-exactly-a-good-guy-and-on-the-run-from-the-Secret-Empire

Oh, hell, while we're here, let's look at banshee in full Sal Buscema and Vince Colletta glory:

Oh, yeah, this was also the era when Sean's face got all ugly when he used his powers:

Anyway...Moonstone hailing from Nashville, Banshee hiding out in Nashville...what the hell was going on there?

I don't know if I have any Nashville readers, but be careful out there, OK? Especially at Merle Haggard concerts or the museum...

From Captain America #172 (1974)

Monday, February 15, 2016

Manic Monday Triple Overtime--RESPECT!

You know who never gets enough credit?


Sal Freakin' Buscema never gets enough credit.

'Nuff said.

From Defenders #2 (1972), inks by John Verpoorten.