Reaky wrote:
 Sal Buscema is another whose work just looks Marvel, but is so formulaic. I suspect you could take something like a couple of dozen of Sal's panels, shuffle them and redraw the heads, and you could reconstruct virtually any of his issues: the extended hand, the striding walk, the sweeping blow, the flying body..

Precisely; no thought, no inspiration, great work ethic though.

To me Sals storytelling acumen is so basic, it's on the level of a children's book; everything is spellt out for the reader. It's fine if you don't want to engage your imagination, but I just found it blatantly predictable.
Same applies for George Tuska. I actually rate Tuska higher than Sal when he put any effort into his work, something he rarely ever did from the 60s onwards. Trimpe is the same, colourless, formulaic workhorse, and worst of all he lacked a basic understanding of antomy, a cardinal sin.

Count me as an Andru hater, I rate him much lower than Sal and only slightly above Bob Brown.
Sal never added much to a story AFAIC, but he couldn't ruin a good tale, the way Andru and Brown could. I found there work so ugly, that regardless of the stories, I just found them unreadable.

I'm not blind to Andru and Brown's previous work at DC in the 60s, which was perfectly serviceable albeit unremarkable, but they were both way over the hill by the time they migrated to Marvel in the early 70s.

  


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