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For fun, I decided to try my hand at inking a scan of a pencil drawing by the legendary Jack Kirby of The Avengers. The finished version of Kirby's art was published on the back cover of the "Marvel Treasury Edition" #7 (1975) that featured the Mighty Avengers, and was inked there by Frank Giacoia.
Giacoia altered Kirby's pencils quite a bit on that version. While I also altered a few details as Giacoia, such as removing the nose on Iron Man (a feature he was actually given for a period in the early 1970s, but later thankfully dropped), and making a few alterations so that Vision and Yellow Jacket more closely matched their traditional looks, I kept to Kirby's pencils more faithfully than not.
I did not reference the published, inked version in working on this piece, so it was interesting to go back and see what differences there were between my ink job and what Giacoia had done. His inks made Kirby's art more in line with the 1970s' Marvel aesthetic, such as how he changed Hulk's features, but other than the costume adjustments, I wanted to stick more closely to what Kirby had done in the pencils.
Anyway, I am posting my final inks and Kirby's original pencils for comparison.
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