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- John Buscema (December 11, 1927–January 10, 2002) was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics in its 1960s and 1970s heyday.
- Buscema began his comics career in the 1940s with Timely Comics (the predecessor to Marvel), working on Western, romance, and adventure comics. He later spent over two years on Roy Rogers comic books for Dell, and other varied titles, before taking an eight year break as a commercial artist. Returning to comics (and to Marvel) around 1966, he worked on Hulk stories in Tales to Astonish and then began a long stint on The Avengers, from 1967 until 1989. He drew the first seventeen issues of The Silver Surfer and was the regular penciler on Conan the Barbarian (1976-1985) and Thor (1970-1985, and a 1995 return), plus work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Tarzan, Howard the Duck, and many more.
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Buscema spent a year in a half as the youngest artist in the Timely bullpen with a steady diet of crime, romance and western stories. An early highlight is his work on the Tex Morgan title . His work during this period is clearly novice quality, although not without signs of strong draftsmanship.
The 50's
In the early 50's Buscema continued to work freelance for Timely/Atlas as well as branching out to other publishers , continuing in the crime, romance, western vein. Highlights of the period can be found especially with Our Publications/Orbit on such titles as Love Diary , Love Journal as Buscema abandons regular superhero work in order to spearhead art duties on all 3 Conan titles. Such is the popularity of the character, that a Conan movie is released in 1982; Buscema provides superb pencils and inks for a 48-page movie adaptation.
Buscema continues to tackle other high-profile projects such as the second Superman and Spiderman team-up , a Silver Surfer story for the first issue of Epic magazine , a fine King Arthur story , and a movie adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981, Janson inks).
The Conan franchise eventually begins to struggle editorially, however, as Buscema becomes increasingly disenchanted with the writing on Conan and will gradually drop all Conan work altogether. He leaves King Conan in 1982 after 9 issues although he remains with the REH franchise with a revival of the Kull series for 10 issues.
His post-Thomas work on SSOC was done mainly with Ernie Chan as inker and is overall quite strong. He actually made a return to more frequent inking with a trio of superlative jobs and a fondly remembered 5-part tale of a character of his own creation, Bront . He leaves the series in 1984 with #101 on a strong note with a series of stories that he plotted himself.
After pencilling the Conan the Destroyer movie adaptation in 1984 and the Conan of the Isles graphic novel in 1987 , he left the Conan the Barbarian title with #190 in 1987, ending a highly successful 14-year association with the character. The series had gone through a number of changes in writers and inkers to Buscema's dissatisfaction although he nonetheless contributed a series of several dozen fine penciled and inked covers in closing out his work on the title.
It's unfortunate that Buscema himself didn't take up regular writing chores on the title as he had strong plotting and storytelling skills as evidenced in his preference for the 'Marvel method' of storytelling . Stan Lee: 'As a writer I found him a delight to work with. I had only to give him the barest bones of a plot and he'd flesh it out magnificently. He didn't even want a written synopsis most of the time. We'd discuss the story over the phone for a few minutes and days later he'd deliver a terrific strip that looked as though we had spent weeks going over every last detail!'
After a nearly five-year absence from the superhero world
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- John Buscema (December 11, 1927–January 10, 2002) was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics in its 1960s and 1970s heyday.
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- Buscema began his comics career in the 1940s with Timely Comics (the predecessor to Marvel), working on Western, romance, and adventure comics. He later spent over two years on Roy Rogers comic books for Dell, and other varied titles, before taking an eight year break as a commercial artist. Returning to comics (and to Marvel) around 1966, he worked on Hulk stories in Tales to Astonish and then began a long stint on The Avengers, from 1967 until 1989. He drew the first seventeen issues of The Silver Surfer and was the regular penciler on Conan the Barbarian (1976-1985) and Thor (1970-1985, and a 1995 return), plus work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Tarzan, Howard the Duck, and many more. Buscema's later work ranged from movie adaptations and the oddball Archie Meets the Punisher to finally working for DC Comics on Batman Black and White ("The Game of Bat and Rat" story) and the one-shot Superman: Blood of My Ancestors, released posthumously in 2003.
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