Astonishing Tales #12 page 5 – Ka-Zar, second appearance of Barbara "Bobbi" Morse (Mockingbird)

Marvelous!

Great line and ink work but I love the zip use on the middle panels 

Bronze Age Buscema goodness! I really love his facial expressions (in that last panel yes for sure as you mentioned, but also in the opening 2 panels!). 

True. Ka-Zar seems genuinely horrified to see the image of Ellen Brandt - too gruesome to share with the gentle readers.

Paul Allen really was into everything important.

This is great in building out the Marvel Universe in the 70's!  A Ka-zar adventure could yield another great character in Mockingbird much like how he himself first appeared in an X-Men comic.

So true. And thus the baton was passed.

This is a great world building page and an unexpected treat for fans of the interwoven marvel universe... also, it looks cool!

Astonishing Tales 12 and 13 was such a great storyline, made extra special by Big John's art (along with an incredible Neal Adams Man-Thing origin sequence in 12 and an assist by Rich Buckler in 13)!

Yes, it's easy to forget just how early those stories were in Man-Thing history, and just how messy a start Marvel's Bog Beast had. So much revision in that origin 'origin' story, still re-jigging it in the Giant-Sizes years later.

A great appearance by AIM, the deadliest beekeepers in the world!

Ha ha! Yes, they really needed some design consultants to come in and make them seem a bit more threatening. All left over from Kirby being influenced by the hazmat suits in Dr No I suspect.

Always cool to see these pre Mockingbird pages!

Sucha a very nice page. Classic and beautiful content.

Thanks Tony. It's mostly a story exposition page, but Buscema just had to squeeze in some dynamic action to keep the high tempo.

Yes, Dan was pretty good on Big John. These Astonishing Tales books were not the easiest to find at that time in France. As another bunch of titles, it was in Brussels in the early 70's that I could get them, discovering who was doing what by opening each book with delight. At that time, no plastic bags with tape in this beautiful store ! Ka-Zar was a great character for John, he surely enjoyed drawing him. Not a super-hero, some kind of savage guy moving in a way which fit perfectly for a great story teller. Loved those books with the Savage Tales stories too.
Congrats Paul !

Beautiful page by the masters !!!

Great page from all angles, congrats!