Comic Splash Pages (are ALSO awesome!)
bralinator
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* How about a thread for great "splash pages"? Have I overlooked this?
Moon Knight splash from page 1 of Defenders #49
July 1977
Interior art: Keith Giffen pencils & Mike Royer inks
Keith Giffen’s art was polarizing on this run. He had great detail and dynamic action, but he openly emulated Jack Kirby's signature style. This was never never more prominent than when his pencils were finished by long-time Kirby inker Mike Royer in this issue. This was from the three-part “Who Remembers Scorpio” arc in Defenders #48-50. Keith Giffen penciled each issue (though with three different inkers, including his own inks in issue #50). As a team, Giffen and David Anthony Kraft had some storytelling mojo that still holds up after more than three decades.
Moon Knight splash from page 1 of Defenders #49
July 1977
Interior art: Keith Giffen pencils & Mike Royer inks
Keith Giffen’s art was polarizing on this run. He had great detail and dynamic action, but he openly emulated Jack Kirby's signature style. This was never never more prominent than when his pencils were finished by long-time Kirby inker Mike Royer in this issue. This was from the three-part “Who Remembers Scorpio” arc in Defenders #48-50. Keith Giffen penciled each issue (though with three different inkers, including his own inks in issue #50). As a team, Giffen and David Anthony Kraft had some storytelling mojo that still holds up after more than three decades.
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July 1971
Interior art: Sal Buscema pencils & Joe Sinnot inks
This is part nine of an eleven part story that concludes Stan Lee's epic run on Thor, with issue #192. It's got great John Buscema art throughout and the story is a lot of crazy cosmic fun. Maybe some of this run will make it into the upcoming Ragnarok film?
Daredevil #227:
Daredevil #228:
Daredevil #229:
and Daredevil #230:
Here's one of my favorites, also from the Frank Miller era.
Daredevil #170 (1981)
Pencils Frank Miller with inks by Klaus Jansen
Miller’s incredible work on Daredevil is a style that's very familiar to fans of Will Eisner.
Great splash pages, btw @phansford
December, 1966
Jack Kirby & Joe Sinnott
Dr. Doom manages to trick the Silver Surfer into standing in front of a device that steals the Surfer's power cosmic and gives it to Dr. Doom
And if you really want to nitpick, page 1 of a book is still an interior page. ;)
(That’s a joke. I know what you meant.)
(with Klaus Janson & Lynn Varley)
(also note: I hunted these down on the interwebs, while at work [don't mention that out loud], and believe my memory's correct in noting these are all splash pages)
-chris
1988
Artist Todd McFarlane
Of course there are far better illustrated Spider-Man comics out there, but this one was a game-changer for me. I was doing reserve duty in the U.S. Navy back in 1988 when this came out. I happened to pick it up at the PX, having not read comics in a few years, but when I first opened the pages of this double-sized issue. I was immediately drawn back in. I really loved what Todd was doing with the artwork. It was exciting and fresh. And who knew the book would explode in value from $1.50 to a whopping $500+?!?!
The issue is both an ending and the beginning of a new era, and this splash page at the end of the book put Peter back in his traditional red and blues – demonstrating how all good stories tend to come full circle. One of my favorite comic book pages of all time - mainly for the nostalgia.
The entrance to HELL, as depicted by Kelley Jones.
-chris
Has this ever been collected? It's the spiritual successor to his Fourth World tales.
This splash page is supposed to be the first time Byrne drew the X-men. Probably my first time seeing them.
One of the first comics I ever bought.