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Robert Bradley
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That Man-Thing story was included in the middle of a story by John Buscema and perhaps Romita altered the art to make the girl's face more similar to Barbara Morse as she appeared in the rest of the issue (yes, the same Barbara Morse who later became Mockingbird).

My guess would be that the seven Adams pages were intended to be used as part of a black & white anthology magazine.



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Yes, the Adams pages were originally intended to appear as a standalone Man-Thing story in Savage Tales #2.  When that magazine was cancelled, they were repurposed for the Ka-Zar series.
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"Now there was some "outrage" when Kirby's Superman was redrawn to be on model in Jimmy Olsen. Was there any thing like that when it happened in FF?"

There is a difference in that the Fourth World books were sold on Kirby's name. It's pretty ironic to have KIRBY IS HERE! splashed on the cover and his work clumsily altered inside.

(One should note that "clumsy" is about the last word you'd normally apply to art by Murphy Anderson. If only they'd had him inking the whole thing...)
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(One should note that "clumsy" is about the last word you'd normally apply to art by Murphy Anderson. If only they'd had him inking the whole thing...)

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Can't see that working. Murphy came from a very different sensibility than Jack. Even when he inked a more realistic artist, like Curt Swan, he changed the pencils considerably.

I don't think it would have been DC's version of Joe Sinnott!

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JB's right, they don't go together. Kirby: very "hard" pencils. Anderson: very "soft" inks. Oil and water.

Kirby and Giordano might have worked.
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I wonder how Kirby/Schaffenberger would have looked.

Kurt Schaffenberger's line was pretty smooth and slick like Sinnott's or Romita's, it might have been an interesting combination.
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Kirby/Schaffenberger on Superman or Superboy would've been pretty great.
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Neal Adams had a hand in drawing "Superman vs Spider-Man," and Terry Austin was the primary background inker:

Full story on the making of that comic here.
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I know we're just talking hypotheticals, but Kirby was drawing Jimmy Olsen during the time Schaffenberger was briefly blackballed by DC (possibly for his participation in a group seeking benefits) so he wouldn't have been available to ink the book.

Andrew is right, Superman vs. Spider-Man had one of the most complex sets of art credits ever:
Ross Andru:  pencils
Neal Adams:  some redrawing of Superman figures
Dick Giordano:  inks of figures
John Romita:  some redrawing and re-inking of Spider-Man cast members' faces
Terry Austin and Bob Wiacek:  background inks
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