n.b. re Gil Kane
At one point, according to I think Ronin Ro (or possibly Christopher Priest?), Jim Shooter got on Gil Kane's case for using a lot of explosions and abstract menaces per comic, because abstractions were easier and faster to draw and he needed a lot of page rate money very quickly, apparently. This is maybe why he's so good at drawing textures fast, and why this comic kind of doesn't make any sense even by Silver Age standards (like there's not a single dubious scientific threat or jovial, one-gimmick menace in the offing; there are a series of surreal half-baked dangers) (It's so good when comix go off the rails) -- j thornton