![]() ![]() ![]() Ross appears not to have progressed one iota in the years since painting Marvels, but was a revelation here. In Marvel terms Giant-Man was a relatively mundane superhero, yet viewed from below striding across buildings he presents a remarkable image. He packed his crowds, convinced with the period settings, and knew how to lay out the appearances of the superheroes for maximum gosh-wow impact. He arrived pretty well the finished article, his painted graphic naturalism as wonderful as the scenes he evoked. He accentuates the innocence of the times, both among the superhero fraternity and those catching the occasional glimpses of a world beyond their imagination, and closes the era with the death of that innocence along with Spider-Man’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy.īusiek was helped greatly by the photo-realistic art of the then largely unknown Alex Ross. He presented them as Gods, as seen by ordinary people in the earliest, less crowded days of the Marvel universe. ![]() With Marvels Kurt Busiek managed what very few others had in decades: a new way of viewing superheroes. ![]()
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