These guys were some of my favorites growing up...

1. "Buscema the Lesser"
2. "Workhorse" - which can be a backhanded compliment, and lets people take you for granted sometimes.

But in retrospect, he was one of the greats!

Marvel Comics is an ass.

The Balder The Brave mini-series is worth hunting down for classic Our Pal Sal art.

I'd love to see Marvel publish a special Sal Buscema issue similar to the recent JRjr 30th Anniversary Special : it'd be a lovely retirement gift to Sal and a great occasion for all his many fans.

Your partially right, so I stand partially corrected.

Harry planted the bombs and drugged Peter leaving him immobile in the soon to be blown up building. He suddenly remembered his wife and kid were still in the building and rescued them on his glider, this made him regain himself and upon realizing he left Peter to die he went back and saved him in the nick of time. He collapsed outside the building and died on the way to the hospital due to poisonous side-effects of the Goblin serum. With his last breath he apologized to Peter and reaffirmed their friendship.

It was Mary Jane, actually.

See here for scans of the scene in question.

Great minds think alike, Reed! I'm a Sal fan, too.

Great sketch, Jason. Thanks for posting a link.

Nice collection of convention sketches, by the way.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=14694

Our Pal Sal is such an underrated artist, so I was glad to see him get a write-up here.

Doesn’t Harry die after saving his wife and child from the building? Also, either way, he died from his own poisonous goblin serum, not from the explosion.

Your partially right, so I stand partially corrected.

Harry planted the bombs and drugged Peter leaving him immobile in the soon to be blown up building. He suddenly remembered his wife and kid were still in the building and rescued them on his glider, this made him regain himself and upon realizing he left Peter to die he went back and saved him in the nick of time. He collapsed outside the building and died on the way to the hospital due to poisonous side-effects of the Goblin serum. With his last breath he apologized to Peter and reaffirmed their friendship.

Doesn't Harry die after saving his wife and child from the building? Also, either way, he died from his own poisonous goblin serum, not from the explosion.

I, for one, didn't like Sal's run on 'Spectacular. I thought the heads he drew were too tall and skinny, like they had been crushed by Mark McKinney or something (actually, more geeky, Mark McKinney's rival, since McKinney went horizontal and the other one -- McCulloch? McDonald? -- went vertical).

I cried when Harry died.

Just a little.

And Sal was a part of that. Definitive artist for the second goblin I think.

Oh man, the issue he drew when Harry died... The Green Goblin set up the whole trap to kill Spidey but Harry changes his mind in the nick of time and dies saving Peter from the exploding buildig. I read as a kid and I don't think I'll ever forget it. Did Marvel ever publish a trade of that whole story?

I wholeheartedly agree! Those were some good Spider-Man comics!