Big John Buscema's Conan art

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A great double-page spread by Big John Buscema and Ernie Chan (King Conan 1)

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Buscema defined my mental image of Conan, probably more so than even Frazetta.

This Buscema drawn monster from King Conan also put the zap on the young me.

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Yesterday was Big John's birthday...

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Buscema was the best at portraying movement and action and everything else - and, remember this is just a quick sketch.

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Big John died 16yrs ago today.

JB self portrait.

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Mar 5, 2018 21:33:43 GMT -5 @kail said:

...... from CTB #100 (Marvel Comics) • Art by John Buscema and Ernie Chan • Words by REH

Thanks Kail.

I love the QotBC run by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.  

 

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Mar 10, 2018 5:49:41 GMT -5 @kail said:

Mar 9, 2018 0:57:38 GMT -5 @hunnu said:

Thanks Kail.

I love the QotBC run by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.  

 

Overall, I found that run to be a bit hit-or-miss, hun - both story and art. When Ernie Chan returned to the character, I found his style to be much more overwhelming on JB's art than it had been on his first run. I would have liked to see them doing that particular story in one of the first Savage Sword issues when all the talent involved was fully committed.


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I get what you mean about the run being a bit hit-or-miss. I think some of that has a lot to do with the workload of John Buscema at the  time - if I remember correctly, around halfway through the run,  Buscema was also on pencils for Tarzan, Thor, SSOC and the odd issue here and there for Marvel. I remember Howard Chaykin pencilled a couple of Conanized REH yarns that Roy Thomas tried to squeeze into the QotBC run. I did not mind Ernie Chan's inks during this run, admittedly, he did at times overwhelm the pencils of JB, but, I think, more so, later on when Roy Thomas and Big John returned to SSOC. 

I have the QotBC comics bound in 2 volumes and still read them every couple of years or so. I sold the rest of my Conan comics years ago. They are the only Conan comic-books in color in my collection.

I still have the first 60 issues of the Savage Sword of Conan and Savage Tales 1-5. They are fantastic, especially the first 30 issues and they are by far the best adaptations of Conan to date. I also would have liked to have seen QotBC adapted in one of the early issues of SSOC. It would have been interesting to have seen how Roy Thomas would have adapted the yarn in SSOC. Would it have been adapted over 2 issues? Or would he have expanded on the adaptation?

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Mar 2, 2018 6:32:59 GMT -5 @kail said:

The man was almost a giant in stature ...

May 6, 2017 19:46:05 GMT -5 Von K said:

Yeah, that's an superbly iconic image. Kail did a great variant of it on the old forum if I remember rightly.

That's the one. You did some parchment toned variants featuring REH's poetry as well if I recall

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An interesting article looking at The Legendary Career of John Buscema.

salutemag.com/2018/06/07/legendary-john-buscema/

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I like the comparisons and contrasts between him and Kirby. In my own opinion, I think he even exceeded Kirby. Great article, hun.

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13 COVERS: A JOHN BUSCEMA Birthday Celebration
13thdimension.com/13-covers-a-john-buscema-birthday-celebration-4/

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CtB 38

Page count of all the Conan comic book pages by John Buscema published in the 1970s (covers, pin-ups, frontispieces, spot illustrations and reprints not included)

1973
CtB: 175
Total: 175

1974
CtB: 185
SSOC:  77
Total: 262

1975
CtB: 182
SSOC: 145
Total 327

1976
CtB: 178
SSOC: 221
Total:  399

1977
CtB: 136
Marvel Comics Super Special: 50
SSOC: 274
Total: 460

1978
CtB: 170
SSOC: 247
Marvel Comics Super Special: 34
Total: 451

1979
CtB: 253
SSOC: 257
What If: 35
Total 545

John Buscema’s 1970’s Total: 2,619 pages

Source: Big John Buscema, Comics & Drawings, IDW, 2012