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Eric White
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Posted: 14 December 2022 at 6:14pm \| IP Logged \| 1

Yes. A beautiful combination.

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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 15 December 2022 at 10:38am \| IP Logged \| 2

One of my all-time favorite single issues is the Dominic Fortune story in MARVEL PREMIERE #56, with plot and layouts by Howard Chaykin and finished art by Terry Austin. (I feel like these two great pros must have teamed somewhere else too, but I have no idea where!) This is one finely detailed comic I would love to get an oversized Artist's Edition of! Here are some random pages--

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Jose Zulueta
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Posted: 15 December 2022 at 1:00pm \| IP Logged \| 3

Eric, those are some seriously good looking pages from the Chaykin/Austin team.

Your feelings serve you well: the two HAVE collaborated elsewhere, particularly on The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones. They've done the occasional covers there and illustrated an entire issue (#6). I'd love to see a full-sized Artists Edition repro of these, myself.

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Dave B Stewart
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Posted: 15 December 2022 at 10:27pm \| IP Logged \| 4

Chaykin and Austin also did a story in Savage Sword of Conan 78. I would not have guessed those would work so well together.

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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 15 December 2022 at 10:50pm \| IP Logged \| 5

Ooohhh...so good!

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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 16 December 2022 at 4:23am \| IP Logged \| 6

Theoretically, Chaykin and Austin seem like a more natural fit than JB and Austin were. The former pair well with a very angular sense of line and design. Though its funny how artistic chemistry works, since JB/Austin are one of THE great pencil/ink pairings - perfect timing for both in their stylistic evolution to line up when they did.

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Raj Dhami
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Posted: 16 December 2022 at 9:44pm \| IP Logged \| 7

I know that Terry Austin and Frank Miller did quite a few covers together, but I am pretty fond of their single issue in Daredevil (DD #191). I know they also did a DD story for What If too (#35?)

Reflecting on that it's kind of weird that only 10 issues earlier Elektra was killed by Bullseye soon to be followed by issues 183/184 and the Punisher Angel Dust Storyline.

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Eric White
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Posted: 17 December 2022 at 1:53am \| IP Logged \| 8

JB and Craig Russell.

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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 17 December 2022 at 7:42am \| IP Logged \| 9

Like I said earlier, the original MS. MARVEL series was full of one-shot (or at least rare) pairings. Here's a sampling of splash pages (with the art teams spelled out in the credits boxes)--

MS. MARVEL #4

Mooney never looked better than these few issues inked by Sinnott!

MS. MARVEL #9

I'd almost forgotten that Pollard worked on FANTASTIC FOUR for a while, doing layouts for Sinnot's finished art. But throw Grainger into the mix--!

MS. MARVEL #12

Sal Buscema and Joe Sinnott practically were the faces of Marvel! Surprised they didn't team more often.

MS. MARVEL #20

Cockrum and Wiacek really looked good together. I was bummed it was only for this one issue.

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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 17 December 2022 at 7:55am \| IP Logged \| 10

Here are some non-splash pages from MS. MARVEL. I'll put the names as I go--

MS. MARVEL #14, Carmine Infantino inked by Steve Leialoha

MS. MARVEL #15, Jim Mooney inked by Tony DeZuniga

Two artists I associate with DC, but together (here at least) they look decidedly Marvel!

MS. MARVEL, Carmine Infantino inked by Bob McLeod

Boy, I don't know anyone who didn't look better than when inked by Bob McLeod!

MS. MARVEL #21, Dave Cockrum inked by Al Milgrom

I like Milgrom, but this inky outing was a letdown after the previous issue inked by Bob Wiacek and the cover inked by Joe Rubinstein. Why couldn't this series keep anybody for long?

MS. MARVEL #22, Mike Vosburg inked by Mike Zeck

When else did Mike Zeck ever INK anyone?!

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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 17 December 2022 at 8:12am \| IP Logged \| 11

Even the covers for MS. MARVEL were full of one-shot pairings!

MS. MARVEL #1 by John Romita & Dick Giordano (& Dave Hunt)

Two giants in the field--and I have no idea where else they might have teamed!

MS. MARVEL #2 by John Buscema & Dick Giordano

Buscema & Giordano make a really good team! (I believe they reteamed on CONAN at some point.)

MS. MARVEL #3 by Al Milgrom & Joe Sinnott

Milgrom & Sinnott made a good team years later on WEST COAST AVENGERS.

MS. MARVEL #4 by Ed Hannigan & John Romita

Ed Hannigan always did really good covers!

MS. MARVEL #5 by Ed Hannigan & Joe Sinnott

There are probably at least a few more covers by these two.

MS. MARVEL #6 by John Buscema & Frank Giacoia (& Marie Severin)

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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 17 December 2022 at 8:29am \| IP Logged \| 12

And finally--

MS. MARVEL #9 by Dave Cockrum & Joe Sinnott

Another pair of great pros I don't remember seeing elsewhere.

MS. MARVEL #10 by Sal Buscema & Tom Palmer

I posted this earlier, but it's good to see it in context--a great pairing in the middle of many great and unique pairings!

MS. MARVEL #11 by Sal Buscema & Frank Giacoia

Again, two well-established pros I don't remember seeing teamed elsewhere.

MS. MARVEL #14 by Dave Cockrum & Terry Austin

One of a fair handful of great Cockrum/Austin outings.

MS. MARVEL #17 by Jim Starlin & Joe Rubinstein...and John Romita & Alan Weiss!

I love Starlin & Rubinstein! And then throw in Romita and Weiss too!

MS. MARVEL #19 by John Romita Jr. & Joe Rubinstein

Were these two ever teamed again? Because they work really well together!

And that's it for MS. MARVEL--and I didn't even include all the unique teams!

Edited by Eric Jansen on 17 December 2022 at 8:34am

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