Yossarian wrote:
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I re-read this issue last night and it was a lot better than I had remembered.... The first story was inked by Murphy Anderson, and the second was inked by Sid Greene, and the contrast drove home the reasons that I have always preferred Anderson's inks on Kane. Greene's inks rounded out Kane's figures, but too much so and made them look kind of balloon-ish to my eyes.  Also, Greene would always draw people's eyes so that the whites were pronounced and the pupils were tiny, making everyone look constantly surprised.

I got out my Atom Archives over the weekend and compared the stories inked by Sid Green with those inked by Murphy Anderson. First of all, I didn't think they were enormously different, although Murphy Anderson's inking was "busier" overall with more shading. In some cases though that made the characters look older, which is something the women didn't need. Therefore sometimes I preferred Anderson's inking while at other times I preferred Greene's inking. It really depended upon the individual panel for me.


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