Big John Buscema Comics Drawings 2012 IDW Deluxe Hardcover Bilingual Exhibition

by John Buscema

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First edition

Published by IDW in 2012, this true first printing hardcover serves as the authoritative visual archive and academic retrospective documenting the career, sketches, and sequential art of John Buscema. Serving as the official expanded catalog for the definitive museum exhibition of Buscema's work, the text features critical biographical essays and technical art analysis presented in a comprehensive, side-by-side English and Spanish bilingual layout. The massive 328-page catalog delivers vital primary source material for comic historians, illustrators, and curators, reproducing approximately 500 color and black-and-white plates. These entries track his career milestones through original pencil roughs, detailed inks, private sketchbook sheets, and rare early commercial designs for foundational series including The Avengers, Silver Surfer, Thor, and Conan the Barbarian. A clean, structurally sound copy of a scarce, long out-of-print reference monograph.

• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781613771952
• Condition: Very Good

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