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I

Success in

the 1960sn 1966, John got a call from his old boss, Stan Lee, who

was now the senior editor at Marvel Comics. Stan wanted

Buscema back. Marvel had a number of successes in

recent years:

Fantastic Four1961

This superhero team

featured four humans

showered with cosmic

rays, which gave them

fantastic powers. Leader

Reed Richards was Mr.

Fantastic, able to stretch

like a rubber band. His

future wife, Sue Storm,

was Invisible Woman.

Johnny Storm could burst

into flames and fly as

The Human Torch.

Ben Grimm became the

rock-like being known as

The Thing.

Spider-Man1962

First appearing in

Amazing Fantasy #15,this is the story of teenager

Peter Parker, who was

bitten by a radioactive spider and gained amazing spider-like

abilities. The character received his own comic book, The

Amazing Spider-Man,in 1963.

Above andfacing page:Covers

of best-selling Marvel comics, allpenciled by John Buscema.


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Above: The Avengers#43 was one

of John Buscemas first team comics

for Marvel. This August 1967 issue

featured superheroes Scarlet Witch,

Captain America, Goliath, Wasp, and

Quicksilver.

Above: The Avengers#302. This April

1989 cover was also drawn by John

Buscema. It featured superheroes

Captain America, Invisible Woman,

Mr. Fantastic, The Mighty Thor, and

Gilgamesh.

As John felt more comfortable producing comics, he began working on many

different books in the Marvel library, including TheIncredible Hulkand The X-Men.

At first he worked from a pre-written script, but as he became more comfortable

with the characters, he began using what was dubbed as The Marvel Method.

John would talk to Stan Lee and say, Stan, Im ready for a plot. What have you got

in mind? From the basic story outline, John would create the pictures. The words

would be placed later. Many of the great Marvel artists worked in this manner, but it

definitely required an experienced artist who knew how to blend words and pictures.

Since John was now such an artist, his work continued to grow.


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Index

A

Academy of Comic Book

Arts Award 25

All-True Crime 8

Amazing Fantasy 16

Amazing Spider-Man,

The 16

Ant-Man 20

Army, U.S. 11, 14

Atlas Comics 8, 10

Avengers, The 17, 20, 29

B

Banner, Bruce 17Blake, Don 17

Brooklyn, NY 4, 11

Brooklyn Museum 6

Buscema, Dianne 13, 15

Buscema, Dolores 11,

13, 15

Buscema, John Jr. 15

Buscema, John Natale 4,

5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,

19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,

25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Buscema, John Sr. 4, 8Buscema, Rosaria

Sadie 4, 8

Buscema, Silvio Sal

26, 27

CCaptain America 20

Celecia, Dolores 11

Chaite Studios 14

Cisco Kid, The 13

Comics Code Authority

(CCA) 12

Comics Magazine Assoc.of America 12

Conan, the Barbarian

4, 24

Conan, the Barbarian

24, 25

Corpse That Wasnt,

Th 10

D

da Vinci, Leonardo 6

Dell Comics 13

Dont Lose Your

Head 10

Dorne, Al 6

EEarth 22

Empire State Building 8

FFantastic Four, The 22

Fantastic Four, The 16

Fantastic, Mr. 16First Amendment 13

Flash Gordon 5

Foster, Hal 5

G

Galactus 22

Goodman, Martin 9, 24

Grimm, Ben 16

H

Heck, Don 20

Helen of Troy 13

Hercules 13High School of Music

and Art 6

Hogarth, Burne 5

How To Draw Comics

The Marvel Way

(book) 27

How To Draw Comics

The Marvel Way

(DVD) 27

Howard, Robert E. 24

Hulk(see Incredible Hulk)

Human Torch, The 16

IIncredible Hulk, The 20

Incredible Hulk, The

17, 18, 21

Invisible Woman 16

Iron Man 20

K

Ka-Zar 29

Kirby, Jack 18, 19, 20,

22, 23

Korean War 11

LLadies Man 10

LaGuardia, Fiorello 6

Lee, Stan 8, 16, 18, 19,

21, 22, 23, 27

Love Journal 10

M

Make Way For Love10

Marvel Comics 4, 8, 9,

16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26,

27, 29

Marvel Method, The 21

Masters, Alicia 22

Metropolitan Museum of

Art 6

Michelangelo 6

Michelangelo of Comics

29

My Own Romance 10

My Romantic Adventures

10

Mystic 10

N

New York, NY 6, 14, 27

New York Times 6, 8

Norse 17

OOrbit 10

Ordnance Corps 11

Our Publishing 10

PParker, Peter 16

Pratt Institute 6

Prince Valiant in the

Days of King Arthur 5

R

Rockwell, Norman 6

Rogers, Roy 13

Roy Rogers and

Trigger 13

S

Saturday

Evening

Post 6

seal of

approval,

CCA 12

Seduction of

the Innocent

12

Senate Judiciary

Committee 12

Silver Surfer, The 4,

22, 23

Silver Surfer, The 23

Spider-Man 16

Storm, Johnny 16

Storm, Sue 16

Strange Tales 10

Superman 5

T

Tales to Astonish 10

Tarzan 5

Tex Morgan 8

Thing, The 16

Thomas, Roy 25

Thor, The Mighty 4, 20

Thor, The Mighty 17

Timely Comics 8, 9, 10

WWasp, The 20

Wertham, Fredric 12

Western Outlaws and

Sheriffs 8

White Eagle 13

Windsor-Smith, Barry 24

X

X-Men, The 16, 21

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