This final article in my study of Gaspar Saladino at Marvel Comics includes books with a small amount of his lettering work through the end of the alphabet. WAR IS HELL was a war title using both reprints and new material that ran 15 issues from 1973-75. Gaspar did the two blurbs on this cover, […]

One of Marvel’s most successful and longest-running superhero titles, X-MEN began in 1963, but by the early 1970s when Gaspar Saladino returned to lettering at the company, it was mostly reprints until 1975 when Len Wein and Dave Cockrum launched a revised team with new characters. It was a hit, and the book soared to […]

Marvel fans loved the complicated continuity of the superhero line, and Marvel added twists to that with these imaginary stories showing what might have happened if things were a little different. Gaspar Saladino lettered some covers and first story pages for the original run of 47 issues from 1977 to 1984, and he also lettered […]

After a tryout in MARVEL SPOTLIGHT, this title ran 43 issues from 1972-77. Gaspar Saladino lettered some of the covers and a few first story pages. His first cover, above, has his wide, angular balloon lettering and a sign with one of his scary styles on FEAR. The sign is poorly cropped, which is not […]

This article is a catch-all for titles that have a small amount of Gaspar Saladino lettering. The Edgar Rice Burroughs characters were licensed to Western Publishing for many years, then were at DC Comics for a few years, and Marvel got the license next in 1977. The two blurbs on this cover are the work […]