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Kurt Anderson
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Angel used to be very strong.
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Daniel Gillotte
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My first exposure to Gil Kane was on COnan and I HATED IT! I was such a believer in the Buscema Conan that anything else was just wrong! This disdain carried forward to most of the other Gil Kane stuff, too and even prevented me form looking at Sword of th Atom. Dumb kid!

I've grown much appreciation over the ages for Mr. Kane's work, but his Conan is still a hard sell for me!
Thanks for all the cool scans folks!
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I remember buying that Giant Size Iron Man when I was a kid at 7-11! I still have it ( although it's now cover less and beat to hell). I still reread from time to time. Great selection of stories.
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Michael Arndt
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I love his work. Wondering about the Gil Kane Visionaries. Does it have a good selection of his Marvel work?

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Damn! Kane even made Iron Man With A Nose look good! 
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Martin Redmond
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I wouldn't buy the Gil Kane Visionaries. The printing is bad and the colors are awful. I had it and I didn't like it. I think it's a bad choice of issues at that too. There's a What If inked by Klaus Janson if I remember except that it looks more like Janson than Kane. The best Kane / Janson pairing is Giant Sized Defenders #2 a comic which YOU desperately need to buy RIGHT NOW!
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Martin Redmond
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I love the Kane Conan issues Daniel. I just found them by chance last year. Didn't even know they existed. I love love love them.
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Jason Czeskleba
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Kane had several brief runs on Conan.  He did issues #17 and 18 of Conan the Barbarian when Barry Smith temporarily quit the book.  He then did Giant-Size Conan #1-4 which was an adaptation of the Hour of the Dragon novel.  And then he did Conan the Barbarian #127-134.  The first four issues in that run (which he inked himself) are particularly good.

The best Gil Kane Conan story ever, however, is "Night of the Dark God" from Savage Tales 4... Kane inked by Neal Adams (among others... the inks are credited to "Diverse Hands").  Adams might well be the best inker ever for Kane.  Wish I had a scan to post...
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Chris Durnell
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Gil Kane was great, but I must admit I usually preferred another inker over his pencils.

The thing I remember most about his art is the "Gil Kane punch" - the 2/3 page panel that shows the puncher in the background with his fist extended, and a large figure sprawling over that falls towards you.  I've seen that panel in so many comcis he did, but it never gets old.  Many examples of which are on this thread.
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Jason Czeskleba
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To me the most distinctive thing about Kane's art is his famous "up the nose" shot.  He used it so much and made it look so easy, and that is one of the hardest damn perspectives to get right.  In all my years of trying I could never come close to approximating it.
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Brian Miller
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The latest issue of ROUGH STUFF has some really cool pencils by Kane in it. I was amazed by just the figure and head sketches they had in there.

It also features a lengthy comment on Paul Smith by our own Mr. Gerry Turnbull, which was a nice surprise!
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