Defenders #37 page 3 – Hulk SMASH helicopter!

Excellent HulkSmash page. Sorry, Defenders, page :) Congratulations

Ha ha! Yes, it can be confusing, and I end up not being sure what folder to put a page in. Thanks, Mario!

wow, great hulk action page.hulk smash!

Thanks Brian!

Love the vertical 6 panel layout here. The action is perfectly framed in each.

Thanks Tyler. It's a good point about the framing. With so little space, Sal did something very different in each panel.

Gotta love a good Hulk tantrum page!

Thanks, Rick. Hulk's fractious mood was a quite reliable feature...

fantastic action page. i love that the cops jumping out of the crashing helicopter lived

Ha ha! Yes, that one is a bit of a mystery. Thanks, Danny!

Maximum carnage!  Hulk smashes helocopters as much as Wolverine beats ninjas.

Ha ha! Thanks, James - Hulk and Wolverine take on ninjas in helicopters is the Marvel team-up we never knew we needed.

After this incident, Fievel moved West.

A fantastic page dominated by the Hulk!

Thanks, West! 

Amazing page, wish I got to meet Sal in person.

Thanks - me too, sadly. This one came autographed when I bought it, and I have quite a few that Sal autographed. Shame not to have met my favourite artist.

An entire battalion of helicopters wouldn't stand a chance against Hulk! Such a cool looking Sal B Hulk sequence. I really enjoy seeing pages built around a vertical 6-panel layout.

Thanks, Kavi! The best hope always seems to be that the Hulk gets bored and moves on.

Love the layouts, inking and action! Great Hulk page! 

Thanks! Yes, the layouts are regular, same size panels, but Sal does something very different in each one.

Great page from my favorite team book.  As with his glorious Hulk run, Sal had a variety of inkers on Defenders (four different inkers in the first five issues alone - ten in the first twenty).  While my favorite on his Hulk run was Joe Staton, for Defenders I would have to go with Janson.  Issue #19 with the Wrecking Crew is probably one of my single favorite art issues of the entire Defenders run (I would kill for that opening splash).  This is a banger of Buscema/Janson page with Hulk in almost every panel.  Congrats on this stunning example.

Thanks! Yes, the art in Defenders #19 was impressive, and I'm still looking out for a page from that one. That was also the team I first saw on the Defenders - #15. I'm with you on Staton-inked Sal on the Hulk!

What fun!  Hulk smash most pages I've seen.  Janson's inks at this point were ridiculously great.

Thanks! Yes, Janson was really on fire, and his work on Sal on his Defenders issues were consistently amazing.

Hulk vs copter is a short battle. Great page by Sal!

Thanks, Stephen! On this basis, Hulk could get through one helicopter a page.

Janson on Sal is always a treat. Janson was Sal's best inker and this page is no exception.

Thanks, Scott! Agreed - that partnership produced some of the best Bronze-age Marvel comics.

Hulk adding to the city's budget deficit in this page!

I wonder whether that ever gets factored in for those in-comic fictional budgets. "Tax receipts $10 billion, Hulk -$5 billion...". And what happens in a Hulk plus Godzilla month?

Poor Hulk, even his friends chase him and boss him around.

Wow ! Great page and great combo. Love it .

Gorgeous!

Janson is so good that almost everything he touches becomes ...Janson. He gave a lot of depth and nuance to Sal's clean pencils. Great example !

Oh man, this looks like a page that I would post. Love the Hulk action and the Sal/Klaus combo looks absolutely perfect! Congrats!

Another BEAUTIFUL Sal Buscema gem for your incredible collection!!! Just love the variety of vantage points and great images of the Hulk in action... and Klaus Janson's embellishments of Sal's pencils are always FANTASTIC!!!

This is a quintessentially Hulk page that literally bursts with all out action. Many congratulations and nuff said when Hulk smash!

The ultimate loner. It's amazing that he was part of the team at all. Sal was born to draw the Hulk!

Hulk having a smashing time ;-)

Incredible second paragraph description. This is a sensational six-panel Sal page, and is there any penciller or breakdown artist who Klaus Janson did not make look good?

I pity anyone wearing a blue hat who came across the Hulk later that same day.

Well, Hulk doesn't like a lot of people and things and stuff... but he should like this page and thank Sal Buscema and Klaus Janson for such a dynamic portrayal, surely quite faithful to his ordinary state of mind! 

Every one of the 6 evenly sized panel's has got something to see!  Smashing page, indeed.  Congrats!