Star Wars 54 pg 18 (1982 SIMONSON)

Is this a nearly-perfect STAR WARS page, or what?

Of course, this page hails from one of the more notorious STAR WARS issues to ever be published by MARVEL.

Issues 53 & 54 included an unused Carmine Infantio JOHN CARTER OF MARS storyline, retrofitted by writer Chris Claremont into a Princess Leia -centric storyline, and filled out by new content created by Walt Simonson.

To my eye, the difference between the Infantino pages and the Simonson pages, while debated elsewhere, is pretty easy to parse. Determining the inkers is another matter.

This particular example is SUPPOSEDLY identified as an Infantino page. Rubbish. Carmine NEVER drew like that, this is a Walt Simonson page through and through, I'll stake my reputation on it. (Quiet, you in the peanut gallery!)

The inker, though, is hard to guess. This doesn't look as fluid as a Palmer to me, though it still could be. I personally lean a little more to guessing it's Al Milgrom, though he disputes it. >shrug< Anyone else want to guess?