80s/90s Marvel Artists - who would you choose?

Dormammu
Dormammu Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
edited January 2018 in MPQ General Discussion
I became hooked on comic books as a kid in the early 80s. I became absolutely addicted to them in the late 80s and early 90s as a teenager. Lurking on these forums off-and-on since MPQs launch has given me a sense that a lot of you were weened onto Marvel around the same era.

I really enjoy it when a cover I'm familiar with (usually because it's tucked away in a comic box in the garage) is used in Marvel Puzzle Quest from my days as an avid Marvel Maniac. The most recent example of this is Kraven's cover - from Kraven's Last Hunt, pencilled by one of my favorite artists of all time... Mike Zeck. I've been waiting patiently for a Zeck cover to make it into MPQ! There are several artists from that era who were/are legendary that I would love to see more covers from.

Which of the classic Marvel artists below, from that era, would you like to see more of?

(P.S. If Jim Lee didn't already have multiple covers in MPQ he would have been included in this poll.)

80s/90s Marvel Artists - who would you choose? 62 votes

Art Adams
9%
DormammuSTOPTHISSlappyDingleSaxikMonsoon3dadows 6 votes
John Byrne
6%
rdvargas1MikeG72JackTenrecReecoh 4 votes
Todd McFarlane
22%
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Frank Miller
6%
moss04gentgeenhunky_funkyKahmon 4 votes
George Perez
3%
CaptainFreakythisone 2 votes
John Romita jr.
1%
animaniactoo 1 vote
Marc Silvestri
6%
DeadsiderQubortMushroomGenius808Wumpushunter 4 votes
Walt Simonson
8%
PorkBellyEdelkinshadowyoshidjrdjrvinsensual 5 votes
Jim Starlin
3%
Forbushbryduck 2 votes
Other (You forgot...!)
32%
KaeyneColognoisseurZommyGDfight4thedreamleeleeshinetfcrazy1980beyonderbubKevin61CyberVenom2001KrosssmkspySim Mayordave7099TheAlphateamLifeofAgonyNotBAMFtwistmonkeygmtoscaAnduinelThaRoadWarrior 20 votes
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  • beyonderbub
    beyonderbub Posts: 661 Critical Contributor
    Other (You forgot...!)
    Rob Liefeld is the best
  • Dormammu
    Dormammu Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Art Adams
    beyonderbub said:
    Rob Liefeld is the best
    I considered putting him on the list (I only had room for 10 options) as he certainly was a hot and influential artist from that era.
  • tfcrazy1980
    tfcrazy1980 Posts: 132 Tile Toppler
    Other (You forgot...!)
    bill sienkiewicz
  • LifeofAgony
    LifeofAgony Posts: 690 Critical Contributor
    Other (You forgot...!)
    Jim Lee
  • Colognoisseur
    Colognoisseur Posts: 806 Critical Contributor
    Other (You forgot...!)
    Bill Sienkiewicz

    Your list misses a lot of the major artists

    Other is going to be the winner by a mile because of it.
  • TheAlphateam
    TheAlphateam Posts: 25 Just Dropped In
    Other (You forgot...!)
    I loved Ron Lim on Silver Surfer. Bob Layton on Iron Man. 
  • JackTenrec
    JackTenrec Posts: 808 Critical Contributor
    John Byrne
    John Byrne and George Perez are basically why I got into comics (but I associate Perez more with DC).
  • twistmonkey
    twistmonkey Posts: 79 Match Maker
    Other (You forgot...!)
    Jim Lee by a country mile
  • fun_and_gun
    fun_and_gun Posts: 120 Tile Toppler
    sam kieth
  • Wumpushunter
    Wumpushunter Posts: 627 Critical Contributor
    Marc Silvestri
    Maybe if we had more Marc Silvestri covers we could have women characters and not teen girl characters.
  • Dormammu
    Dormammu Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Art Adams
    twistmonkey said:
    Jim Lee by a country mile
    See my post script. Already lot of Jim Lee covers in game.
  • Dormammu
    Dormammu Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited January 2018
    Art Adams
    Colognoisseur said:
    Bill Sienkiewicz

    Your list misses a lot of the major artists

    Other is going to be the winner by a mile because of it.
    I had a list of 30 I wanted to use. Poll restricts to 10, so I had to whittle them down to my favorites. You are right, that era had a lot of great artists!
  • Sim Mayor
    Sim Mayor Posts: 309 Mover and Shaker
    Other (You forgot...!)
    John Buscema. His art in the early Wolverine solo comic defined the character for me before I could ever recognize the work of a McFarlane, Leifeld or Lee. I was so upset when issue #17 rolled around and they brought John Byrne in for a 5-issue arc, I nearly quit buying the comic.
  • Punisher5784
    Punisher5784 Posts: 3,845 Chairperson of the Boards
    Todd McFarlane
    Spawn.. nuff said
  • CyberVenom2001
    CyberVenom2001 Posts: 203 Tile Toppler
    Other (You forgot...!)
    Alex Ross on Marvels and Kingdom Come
  • NotBAMF
    NotBAMF Posts: 408 Mover and Shaker
    Other (You forgot...!)
    There are so many good ones, many of whom you listed. I am going to go with Erik Larsen though. 
  • smkspy
    smkspy Posts: 2,024 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited January 2018
    Other (You forgot...!)
    Just about every artist that worked on Ghost Rider vol 3 besides maybe fill-in artists.

    Javier Saltares
    Mark Texeira
    Andy Kubert
    Adam Kubert (technically spirits of vengeance)
    Ron Garney
    Salvador Larroca

    Virtually a whos-who of constant talent on the book up til his late 90s redesign.
  • killerkoala
    killerkoala Posts: 1,185 Chairperson of the Boards
    mike zeck

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