Aric, that Superman 1983 Special kills. I'm a huge fan of his 70 and 80s output. Which is when he finally started using more negative space in his compositions.

I just bought his StarHawks complete recollection. The strips are really tiny but it's still awesome. I can easily understand why you wouldn't rank him as high as Perez, since Perez had several awesome long runs in his prime, most notably the Titans. Kane spent most of his prime drawing covers. There's not really any legendary comics run attached under his belt.

My favorite is his short run on Action Comics. Another nice run is Micronauts 40-45 though he only does break downs, it's still pretty solid and dynamic.

This issue, I LOVE it!

This one is crazy good too, and impossible to find in good condition...

QUOTE: I've been dying to read the Moon Knight two-parter for years...

If you don't feel like waiting, there's an Essential Moon Knight out there which opens with it.

Anyway, I think my first exposure to his work was the Braniac revamp in Action Comics #544 or the Sword of the Atom mini, whichever came first.  I can't say he's a particular favorite of mine, but he's done some wonderful work over the years.  (Has everyone seen that alternate cover for one of the Spider-Man drug issues on Mark Evanier's site?  Yowza!)

Chad Carter wrote: I've been dying to read the Moon Knight two-parter for years.

What Dave said.

I never read much of Kane's comic work, but I've seen tons of it through the years.  I like his stuff, but it depends largely on who is inking him.  Sometimes it looks amazing, other times not so much.

My first exposure to Kane was when I was back in NY and found a flyer on a streetlight in Greenwich Village of some guy who was giving "comic art" lessons.  I paid the $10 or $15 for the one hour class (probably back in the late 80's).  We went to his really dirty studio and he basically told me to build a swap file of old comics and just copy the panels as needed.  Suffice to say, I didn't learn much from the guy.  He did however sell me about 10 sheets of paper stapled together for about $5.  They were photocopies of Gil Kake's sketches which looked a lot like this:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=32941

One of the best things I learned from it was a page that broke down the planes of the head - I copied that over and over....  When you look at the pieces in the link above you can clearly see that Kane knew his anatomy better than just about anybody in comics, but he also knew how the figure moved (as the original poster put it).