If Jack Abel was ever an exceptional talent, he'd certainly declined badly by the late 1970's.
Abel had done some inking over Curt Swan's Legion a few years before and it wasn't bad.
And Simonson is a difficult one to find an appropriate inker for. I'm hard pressed to think of anyone other than Walt Simonson himself who does justice to inking his own pencils.
is probably the only one.
Another terrible combination (especially contrasted with Rogers/Austin that immediately followed) is Simonson/Milgrom in DETECTIVE COMICS 469 and 470. Milgrom really blunts the impact of Simonson's work, and makes lackluster work of one of comics' most dynamic pencillers.
Milgrom is not a bad inker (he did some nice work at Marvel in the 1980s) but he was completely mismatched with Simonson.
