Medieval Guy wrote:
dlotempio wrote:
Medival Guy - I totally agree with your point about Rudy Nebres. His style overwhelms the pencils. That said, you can clearly distinguish between the work of Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino. Their styles are hard to obscure but even they suffer a little from Nebres ethereal brush work.
And that's where we differ.  To me, Nebres makes everybody better.

Also, when I see Kane-Nebres or Infantino-Nebres, first I see Nebres.  Then I see Kane or Infantino.  He really is an artist in his own right, not an inker in any meaningful sense of the word.  Which isn't to denigrate other inkers; just that when Nebres inks, he doesn't ink; he draws his own art over the pencils.

Nebres made the look consistent, if nothing else. I liked his work on Kane and he absolutely saved the Infantino issues. The only time I wished he was didn't ink an issue was #11 over Dave Cockrum.
Unfortunately, he didn't stay on the book when Colon and Vosburg were the artists. He would have  saved   many an issue on the latter half of the run.  I was reading the book when it originally came out and Marvel was having troubles with the license and the book was originally canceled with issue 24. They managed  to bring both John Carter and Tarzan for a few months to finish story arcs, but then they had to run a two part inventory story out as annual #3 and in Tarzan's case, two issues became a Battlestar Galactica story.  The priority of talent available for the last few issues was pretty much at the bottom of the barrel.