This week has had noteable losses.
Sal Buacema passed away January 24 at the age of 89. Buscema is the legendary comic-book artist who, among other many credentials, drew The Incredible Hulk monthly comic for a record ten years, defining Ol' Greenskin's iconic comic look of the time. Notable additions to the Green Goliath mythos include the treacherous fellow irradiated U-Foes and the Cold-War-era Soviet Super Soldiers.
The slobbering mouth is all Buscema's touch, like the famous Kirby Cosmic Crackle. I grew up with that comic. For eight years, Buscema also penciled The Spectacular Spider-Man.
I have a poem, '"Nomad", about Sal Buscema and the Jade Giant, that I am seeking a home for.
Thank you for the high adventure, Sal. You were brilliant.
Here is the Frank Miller cover, opening splash page, a Hulk-out splash page and a claustrophic sequence from The Incredible Hulk # 261, "Encounter on Easter Island". Hulk meets up with sociopath Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man. Fellow comic legend, mainstay Hulk writer Bill Mantlo, scripted the issue, during Old Jade Jaw's worldwide drifter years. This outre imagery, the entire Easter Island motif, captured my impressionable imagination.
I allude to this outlandish issue # 267 in "Nomad".
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