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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 16 October 2025 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I'm reading AVENGERS WEST COAST right now, with JB inked by Mike Machlan.
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 16 October 2025 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

The first few issues have a much softer line than later issues. I prefer those
and are some of my favorite inks over JB
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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 17 October 2025 at 7:11am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

In the name of historical accuracy, Dick inked some bits and pieces, and most of MOS 3, but the rest he farmed out to Frank MacLaughlin—which I leaned from Frank years later.
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I really liked Frank McLaughlin on Irv Novick and Dick Dillin in FLASH and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, respectively.  I should have listed "Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin" as the SUPERMAN inkers.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Posted: 17 October 2025 at 10:29am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Inkers, it also of course depends of who is the penciler, but i have two favorites: Terry Austin and Bob Layton.
Some others are close (remember i speak only of my taste): Joe Rubinstein, Dan Green, Joe Sinnot Wally Wood...Jim Mooney... Mike Esposito...)
Some i generaly like but think they sometime overpower the artist: Tom Palmer is one of these,  though i like his work most of the time. Another one is Klaus Janson, that i don't like on Frank Miller but enjoy on JB or JRjr.
Overall, i like Vince Colletta: his style is sweet, and i don't take in consideration that he erases figures (this is due to short deadlines and is not a question of style.) Nonetheless his inks can sometime look awfull, not only bad but filthy, like on some pages of Warlord. 

On JB, Terry Austin is of course my favorite, and you can guess i don't share our host opinion of what Layton did to his art, i think Joe Rubinstein is the second best on JB, and Al Gordon was fine, Sinnnot is always good, Colletta on their one and only collaboration was ok, Dan Green is fine. Now, JB on JB: most of the time it's fine. He is a good inker for his own art. The only real reproach i had at a time in the early 90s was that because of this we didn't see often other inkers anymore on his pencils an i missed it. It's probably on Namor and O.M.A.C. that i enjoyed JB's inks the most.


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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 17 October 2025 at 1:02pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

I agree with Peter a couple of pages back - I really liked
Karl Kesel on JB. I'm not sure what the general consensus
is, but I really dug the pairing.
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 17 October 2025 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I liked it. Certainly better than the Giordano et al from MOS and
ACTION.
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Mike Devlin
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Posted: 17 October 2025 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Mark Farmer inked JB on the "True Brit"
one shot, written by Kim Johnson & John Cleese.
Cheers!
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 17 October 2025 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Which was a wasted opportunity, since JB drew that in a more cartoony style.

Luckily, Farmer got a proper crack at inking him on the JLA: CLASSIFIED issues.
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Blair Herd
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Posted: 17 October 2025 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

I always liked Keith Williams finishing JB's work.
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Eric Smearman
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Posted: 18 October 2025 at 2:17am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

I was especially fond of Bob Wiacek's inking on ALPHA
FLIGHT.
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