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Truthfully, only O'Neil and Adams on BATMAN and JB on FANTASTIC FOUR looked to be (and were described so by the creators) as "Back to the Basics" approaches, that I can think of. Busiek and Perez on AVENGERS was more of a "Back to the Middle of Their History" approach (which might have been their best, so that was okay with me).
Some possibilities (and I don't think the creators were necessarily trying to get back to the basics, it just worked out that way)--
Frank Miller on DAREDEVIL evoked a lot of the mood and inventiveness of Wally Wood's short run. Miller's run was such a fresh start, it might as well have been a new comic. That's as "Back to the Basics" as one can get.
Jack Kirby returned to CAPTAIN AMERICA in the mid-70's and that surely evoked memories of his first run (with Stan) a decade earlier, but Kirby's solo stories had a weirdness and moodiness to them that was totally different than the action-filled, Stan-scripted earlier run.
I think there have been a number of attempts to get back to the basics with DOCTOR STRANGE, but nobody could really do it like Ditko. (But, boy, if Jim Starlin had put in a two-year run--!)
THE HULK magazine literally tried to recapture the early days of the Hulk's original 6-issue run--but doing stories set in the same time period! But I missed those and came on board later when the color magazine was a bit more like the TV show and had abandoned the retro approach. I leave it to others to say whether the B&W issues succeeded in the attempt.
JB's various runs on SPIDER-MAN always reminded visually of Ditko, and storytelling of Stan.
Wally Wood drawing the Earth-2 SUPERMAN back in the 70's ALL-STAR COMICS revival was as close as you were ever going to get to the Joe Shuster version, but the stories were different.
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