His Name Is... Savage
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His Name Is... Savage is a 40-page, magazine-format comics novel released in 1968 as a precursor to the modern graphic novel. Created by the veteran American comic book artist Gil Kane, who conceived,
His Name Is... Savage #1. Cover art by Robert Foster
Splash panel. Art by Kane.
Fantagraphics' 1982 reprint, Gil Kane's Savage! Kane altered the protagonist's features to avoid the original edition's unauthorized use of actor Lee Marvin's likeness.
Gil Kane
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Gil Kane was an American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.
Kane at the 1976 San Diego Comic-Con
Original 1971 Bantam paperback Blackmark, an early example of the graphic novel.