Girl Kane by Gray Morrow

Gil Kane drew quite a number of self-portraits of himself through the years, like the above which was printed in Witzend in the 1960s.

But for today let's focus on a portrait of Mr. Kane that was drawn by another artist.

Gray Morrow was a fabulous comics artist who, for reasons I've never understood, was never widely appreciated by comics fans. For today let's focus on a portrait of Gil Kane drawn by Mr. Morrow.

All-Star Western was a DC Comics title begun unceremoniously in 1970 with reprints of stories from 1959 and 1960; even the cover was a reprint! But editor Dick Giordano got down to business with the second issue of the title, commissioning a cover from Neal Adams to grace an issue of all-new contents.  The first-ever appearance of El Diablo was in All-Star Western #2 and above, from the collection of longtime hayfamzonder Joseph Lenius, is a page from that story.

Please do look closely at the bottom tier of that page, and especially at the final panel.

Gil Kane by Gray Morrow!

Apparently Mr. Morrow was in quite a playful mood because other pages of that same story feature drawings of editor Giordano and artists Al Williamson and Angelo Torres and fan/entrepreneur Phil Seuling. All-Star Western is definitely an instance of a comic title whose second issue was far better than its first!