The mix of artistic styles is what has always made this book potentially very interesting to me, and I'm finding it an enjoyable read for that reason.

In the Thor #146-152 back-ups and Avengers #95, you have two of the greatest ever comics artists (Jack Kirby & Neal Adams) at the very top of their game, and yet their styles and storytelling are about as different as you can get. Gene Colan does some typically nice work, although the pacing is a bit erratic and as a result the ending seems rushed. Some of his Daredevils of this period had the same problem, with lots of small panels crammed on the last page to try and finish the story.

As mentioned in the previous post, the Kirby art in Amazing Adventures is pretty lacklustre, and John Verpoorten is not a terribly sympathetic inker for Neal Adams, although Neal's great strength, anatomy, still shines through (he draws a great Thor). Mike Sekowsky turns in two reasonable issues (with some nice Bill Everett inks on the first story), but at this point in his career, he's really out of his league in this kind of company.

So, all in all, a nice little cross-section of the late Silver Age, and definitely worth a look if you're still on the fence about getting this book.

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