Buscema was natural inside Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. He was originally attracted to comedian by Hal Foster's strip Prince Valiant, and his lush, elaborate style bears comparison sustaining Stephen foster's.

Buscema's number 1 hit was his process in Avengers (beginning in 1966, with writer Roy Thomas), and fallowing that pencilled at least 1 issue of about each major Wonder title (notable exceptions existence Iron Man and X-Men, although he worked on a select few X-Men spinoff titles). Particularly, he stepped into a breach whilst Jack Kirby left the company around 1970, helping it weather a loss tremendously better than it can keep close at hand otherwise.

Among a right-known operate of Buscema come stints on The Retaliator (each in the Sixties & an extended 1980s run); Fantastic Four (with Thomas & writer Gerry Conway); Thor (with Conway); Silver Surfer (with Stan Lee); and the prolonged do in Conan the Barbarian (with Thomas). This endure he typically known when when his favorite, as ironically plenty he disliked superhero stories.

Buscema semi-retired around 1996, although he continued to do a odd pencilling job; one of a endure was his DC Comics debut, a Batman story.

John Buscema died in January 10, 2002 due to cancer.

His brother Sal Buscema is also the comic book creative person.