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Gil Kane pencils; unused page 5 pencils; 1973; image size 10" x 15"

Beautiful scene from the funeral of Gwen Stacey, handled with appropriate reverence by Kane. John Romita famously re-penciled many of the pages in this issue, including this one, though he did for the most part stick to Kane's layouts on the published page. A wonderful example of Kane's pencil work unencumbered by inks. Pencil on board. Art is in excellent condition.

Artist Information

Gil Kane 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.