I recently happened to visit Roger's Time Machine (on 14th & 7th in Manhattan), one of my favorite old-school comic book stores, and picked up a few beat-up reading copies of Strange Adventures. I was looking for stories featuring future private eye Star Hawkins and his robot secretary Ilda. I remembered those stories from when I was a kid, and wanted to wallow in a little nostalgia. Lo and behold if those Star Hawkins stories weren't illustrated by, you guessed it... GIL KANE!
Even though the Star Hawkins stories were contemporaneous with the Atom comics, Kane inked them himself, and as I guessed, they look totally different from the Murphy Anderson-inked stories. Much more how Kane's art looked in the 80s, actually. So to me it just shows how much of his aesthetic Anderson added to Swan and Kane (and undoubtedly everyone he inked).
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Even though the Star Hawkins stories were contemporaneous with the Atom comics, Kane inked them himself, and as I guessed, they look totally different from the Murphy Anderson-inked stories. Much more how Kane's art looked in the 80s, actually. So to me it just shows how much of his aesthetic Anderson added to Swan and Kane (and undoubtedly everyone he inked).
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