Marvel Visionaries: Gil Kane

Tales to Astonish #76

by Gil Kane

Featuring some of Spidey's greatest adventures, including the infamous drugs arc with the Green Goblin, the six-armed Man-Spider saga, and an ultra rare team-up with the X-Men Joining the immortal Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and John Romita in the annals of Spider-Man history is one of the most gifted pencillers ever to grace the industry- Gil Kane.

Never content to sit out a great story, Gil took a shot at every character he could but always returned to the wonderous web-slinger. Kane had a special affinity for Spider-Man, whom he drew in more than 20 stories and scores of covers. The stories contained within are some of the most memorable of the time period. Peter Parker had finally graduated high school and moved on to Empire State University where he was facing more than just super-villains. There were new classes, new girls and new temptations. While his best friend grappled with a drug problem, Peter still had to deal with the Green Goblin, Morbius, and the Incredible Hulk. He even meets the X-Men for the first time. With his fluid pencils, Gil Kane brings a loving familiarity to these characters and stories, reprinted here for old and new Spidey fans alike

Genres: Comics

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Gil Kane (/dʒɪl keɪn/; born Eli Katz /kæts/) was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.

Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971.
In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Iron Fist, Adam Warlock, the High Evolutionary, Captain Marvel, the Hulk, pretty ok.
But one thing that surprised me was, Spider-Man addressing prison reform in 1971. Pretty much at the same time as the Attica riots.