Longtime Marvel artist Sal Buscema, passed away this past Friday, two days shy of his 90th birthday. Like his older brother, John, Sal Buscema enjoyed a long and successful career as a penciler and inker. Silvio “Sal” Buscema was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Jan. 26, 1936, the youngest of four children. The year 2011 marked a return to DC Comics, where he worked on DC Retroactive: The Flash — The’70s and Superman Beyond. Wherever he worked, Sal Buscema earned high praise from his collaborators, with Steve Englehart calling him, “a perfect comic-book storyteller,” while Jim DeMatteis said of their collaboration, “I really loved the two years on Spectacular Spider-Man that I wrote with Sal Buscema drawing.