John Buscema
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Sep 24, 2026
Tim PriceHOST
Um, [smacks lips] very exciting.
Tim PriceHOST
Creators Roger Stern, artist, uh, John Buscema, finisher is Tom Palmer.
Tim PriceHOST
A stellar team at the top of their game doing one of the greatest Avengers stories, period.
Tim PriceHOST
Um, been great.
Jeph LoebGUEST
It was a different kind of, of storytelling that I was doing with Tim.
Jeph LoebGUEST
Um, but I, I grew up and loved, you know, The Avengers with Roy Thomas and John Buscema.
Jeph LoebGUEST
Like, that, that's the world that I knew and I loved, which was...
Jeph LoebGUEST
A- and, and really everything that Stan gave to us, and what Stan told, w- supposedly said, which is that a Marvel comic is a fight where a soap opera breaks out.
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Jeph LoebGUEST
And then, guess what? You gotta come back next week.
Jeph LoebGUEST
Something else is gonna happen.
Jeph LoebGUEST
And what's so funny to me is, is that when I look at The Avengers, when Roy Thomas and, uh, and John Buscema were doing those stories, that...
Jeph LoebGUEST
Or even a, a, a, an Android Can Cry.
AngelHOST
I have Mike Zek's collected editions.
AngelHOST
I have John Buscemi.
AngelHOST
I have Tom McFarlane's Spider-Man.
AngelHOST
It's just really cool to see these things.
Arthur AdamsGUEST
Yeah
Rob LiefeldHOST
... ink over John Buscema.
Rob LiefeldHOST
Todd, without hesitation, inked-
Arthur AdamsGUEST
Interesting
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Rob LiefeldHOST
They were fantasy drawings.
Arthur AdamsGUEST
They were much more fantasy drawings, 'cause that's much more what I was interested in when I was ...
Arthur AdamsGUEST
When I first thought about drawing comics, I really wanted to draw Conan, 'cause my favorite, that was my favorite from Barry Smith and from John Buscema.
Rob LiefeldHOST
Mm.
Kurt HolmanHOST
Um, written by Roy Thomas, with art by, um, John-
Kevin MoreauHOST
John Buscema
Kurt HolmanHOST
...
Kurt HolmanHOST
John Buscema.
Kurt HolmanHOST
And the Avengers lineup here is, um, Goliath, you know, Hank Pym, Wasp, Janet Van Dyne, Black Panther, T'Challa, Hawkeye, Clint Barton.
Kurt HolmanHOST
We mentioned there's, like, cameos of, uh, Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff, and the three, like, kind of ... three of the founding Avengers, Thor, you know, Steve Rogers, Captain America, who appeared in issue four, so he wasn't technically a founding member-
Kevin MoreauHOST
All right.
Kevin MoreauHOST
So yeah, I will, um, I will outline the credits for these two issues.
Arthur AdamsGUEST
Yeah
Rob LiefeldHOST
... ink over John Buscema.
Rob LiefeldHOST
Todd, without hesitation, inked-
Arthur AdamsGUEST
Interesting
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Rob LiefeldHOST
They were fantasy drawings.
Arthur AdamsGUEST
They were much more fantasy drawings, 'cause that's much more what I was interested in when I was ...
Arthur AdamsGUEST
When I first thought about drawing comics, I really wanted to draw Conan, 'cause my favorite, that was my favorite from Barry Smith and from John Buscema.
Rob LiefeldHOST
Mm.
SiskoidHOST
But after the creature escapes into the countryside, hunters freak out and kill it, even though it spends most of its time saving kids from a burning hospital with our hero's help.
SiskoidHOST
Who are the real monsters here? Before we get into the story itself, let's talk a little bit about this cover by John Buscema.
Ryan DalyHOST
I really like this cover.
Ryan DalyHOST
I admit up front, I like the cover more than the story.
Ryan DalyHOST
I like the idea.
Ryan DalyHOST
I like the concept for this cover.
Ryan DalyHOST
This was very much of a time where you've got the hero, the protagonist... speaking directly to a kind of crowd of masses but also through them as a sort of through speaking to the reader and saying stop you can't hurt this monster because this if you hurt this monster we're all going to die and kind of reversing playing on our expectations that you know the the thing that looks terrifying and deadly is actually the good thing sort of like ben grim himself so i just kind of i i like that idea it's also really well drawn because john buscema
SiskoidHOST
Yeah, of course.
SiskoidHOST
But after the creature escapes into the countryside, hunters freak out and kill it, even though it spends most of its time saving kids from a burning hospital with our hero's help.
SiskoidHOST
Who are the real monsters here? Before we get into the story itself, let's talk a little bit about this cover by John Buscema.
Ryan DalyHOST
I really like this cover.
Ryan DalyHOST
I admit up front, I like the cover more than the story.
Ryan DalyHOST
I like the idea.
Ryan DalyHOST
I like the concept for this cover.
Ryan DalyHOST
This was very much of a time where you've got the hero, the protagonist... speaking directly to a kind of crowd of masses but also through them as a sort of through speaking to the reader and saying stop you can't hurt this monster because this if you hurt this monster we're all going to die and kind of reversing playing on our expectations that you know the the thing that looks terrifying and deadly is actually the good thing sort of like ben grim himself so i just kind of i i like that idea it's also really well drawn because john buscema
SiskoidHOST
Yeah, of course.
Steeven OrrHOST
He first appeared in the Marvel comic book, Conan the Barbarian, number 84, in December of 1977.
Steeven OrrHOST
So we haven't quite reached that issue in Hither Came Conan yet, but he was created by Roy Thomas, John Buscema, and Ernie Chan.
Steeven OrrHOST
He also appeared in the 1992 animated series, Conan the Adventurer.
Steeven OrrHOST
And he most recently appeared in the current ongoing Titan, Conan the Barbarian series, beginning with issue 19 from March of 2025.
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Steeven OrrHOST
a real world application, yeah.
Steeven OrrHOST
All right, let's do some fun facts.
Steeven OrrHOST
Fun fact number one, Marvel Comics published a comic book adaptation of the film by writer Michael Fleischer and artist John Buscema in the Marvel Super Special number 35 from September of 1984.
Steeven OrrHOST
The adaptation was also available as a two-issue limited series.
Swain HuntHOST
...
Swain HuntHOST
John Buscema.
Swain HuntHOST
I m- you know, I probably was mispronouncing everybody's names, 'cause these were all, like, you know, Italian and Jewish names.
Dwight ClarkHOST
Right.
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Adrian JohnsonHOST
John Bu-
Dwight ClarkHOST
He's, uh-
Swain HuntHOST
John Buscema gets busy on them action scenes, yo.
Dwight ClarkHOST
[laughs] He does.
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