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Jim Starlin & Alex Nino — Wild Rampage

Original Art and The Artists

Rampaging Hulk #4, August 1977

Original Art for Rampaging Hulk #4 by Jim Stalin and Alex Nino, from the collection of Greg Goldstein

Alex Nino proves to be one of Jim Starlin’s better inkers (if not the best) with this one and only fabulous collaboration for Rampaging Hulk magazine in 1977.

It’s a gorgeous Hulk fantasy story, worth seeking out in its original magazine format. (It’s reduced to comic book size, with inferior reproduction, in Rampaging Hulk Essentials, the only available reprint.)

As I was working on this post, Nostalgic Investments listed a beautiful DPS from this story for 15k (see below) and, in today’s market, that definitely seems reasonable.

Walter Simonson with Alfredo Alcala — …Hulk Nice?

Original Art and The Artists

Rampaging Hulk Magazine #3, June 1977

It’s a Red Hulk / Green Hulk Walter Simonson-themed Christmas, and Green Hulk takes his turn.

Green Hulk takes out his frustration on one of the Metal Master’s lethal robots in this action-filled story, pencilled by Walter Simonson with inks and wash-tones by Alfredo Alcala.

Original art for stories from black and white magazine titles often has more depth, because tonal quality was necessary to make the art pop without color printing. Alcala was one of the best of the artists working regularly in this medium.

Word balloons on many of the Marvel Magazines were done on tissue overlays, hence the “word-free” artwork. But a good action page, like a well directed fight scene in a film, should be void of most speaking parts anyway. (Even as a young reader, I disliked inner monologue masquerading as outer dialogue.)

Who has the breath to talk during a fight? (I know, they’re super-powered beings. But still…)

The Hulk is BIG on Christmas. (Ouch.)