The Hardest Working Little Brother in the Industry

Sal Buscema, Comic Book Artist (Photo by Paige Buscema)

The story goes something like this…

June 1968[16] — the 10-page Western feature “Gunhawk”. “I think they just said, ‘Sal, here’s the plot, go to it,'” Buscema recalled in 2003.[7] That story, “The Coming of Gunhawk”, by writer Jerry Siegel and penciler Werner Roth, was eventually published in the omnibus title Western Gunfighters #1 (cover-dated Aug. 1970)

Inked big brother John’s art for Silver Surfer #4

Buscema’s first published comics work had come before that: inking John Buscema’s pencil art on four 39- to 40-page stories in the superhero comic The Silver Surfer #4–7

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Sources: Wikipedia (“Sal Buscema“)