You're right, I'm wrong and dumb. Excuse please. I've had Frenz on the brain lately.

This is a nice David Mazzuchelli uppercut in the breadbasket.

I think that may be the exact noise I made once when a 6-4 250 pound man socked me in the short ribs when I was 16. "Fight" very over.

Another Kirby cruncher, courtesy of all the great people who scan on the net:

Nice form on the right by the Black Leopard.

(By the way, I was reading ESSENTIAL FF 6 and Black Panther appears in a John Buscema-drawn issue, Roy Thomas writing, where he actually changes his name to the BLACK LEOPARD...as it's the swinging 70s, T'Challa didn't want to be associated with the Black Panthers Black militant group, thus the new moniker. I gotta say, I prefer Black Leopard myself. It sounds Pulpy and cool...I guess no one else thought so...)

QUOTE: Comics have not been spared the "realistic" approach to the fight scene, to the point where the fight is now moot in most superhero comics, rendered to a disappointing afterthought, along with the dynamism and adventure once found and perhaps depended on TOO much in the 1970s...still, the point was to keep the story moving, and battle in superhero comics has always been the bass line of the genre. Without the battle, the Art of what could be termed "senseless violence", there is no bottom, no dependable iconic moment to anticipate. One can only watch superheroes happily backlit by the sun with hands on their hips, or grimly sloughing through some murky underworld, before we wonder where the Punch will take place. The comic is the ring, these are the warriors...they look like fighters, smell like fighters, and speak like fighters. And that is the core of the superhero...the battle for good is timeless, yet only as long as the fighter's arm, for the reader.

Funny you should post this.  I saw these covers today while in Midtown Comics and wondered what audience these are intended for.   Also, at the idea that this kind of bloody violence has become almost blasé in today's comics.

My favorite punch:

Geof Darrow's Hardboiled (scanned from The Big Damn Hardboiled and I got it crooked!)

But I've always felt this was 'inspired' buy Vindicator hitting Wolverine posted above! (I've learned not to repost graphics in the same thread)

Scott