Making A Splash: Bill Sienkiewicz's Early Moon Knight

When Teen Groove flipped through the pages of The Hulk! magazine #13 (December 1978), I have to admit I went a little ga-ga when I got to the Moon Knight feature. Had Neal Adams taken over the penciling chores of this bodacious back-up feature? Nope, t'was some new fella who's name Bill-something-that-was-awfully-hard-to-spell--but the awesomeness of his art made it worth the effort to learn the correct spelling of Sienkiewicz. As you can see from the following splash pages, Sienkiewicz hit the ground running as a far-better-than-average Neal Adams imitator. You can also see his art changing in each splash page (from The Hulk! issues 13-15, 17-18), his own unique style finding itself bit by bit. By the early 80s, Sienkiewicz had become a sensation, his innovative style blazing the trail for the next "new wave" of comicbook art.