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If we're talking about X-MEN: THE HIDDEN YEARS then I really don't get the dislike of Palmer's inks over JB's pencils. The art was meant to evoke the Adams/Palmer pairing in X-MEN in 1969. It worked beautifully.
I'd also argue that Gene Colan, Neal Adams and John Buscema never had a better inker than Palmer. Is he appropriate for every penciller? No. Neither are many others. (Imagine Klaus Janson over George Perez. Would not work. At all.) But Palmer is my favorite inker just for his work with those three people.
Terry Austin has a totally different style but I love the Byrne/Austin "blend" -- never better than on those very few issues of SUPERMAN that Austin inked -- so he gets my #2 spot. He also did great work with other pencillers -- Marshall Rogers and Walt Simonson come immediately to mind. (Though I'll admit that when Rogers and Simonson inked themselves the result wasn't drastically different.)
The work of Gil Kane and Sal Buscema and Frank Miller never looked better than with Klaus Janson's inks.
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