Just sent payment for this one:

It's from Spectacular Spider-Man 193, pencils and inks by Sal Buscema! 

My winnings from the May Heritage Comics Auction arrived today with page 17 from Iron Fist #15.  It's one of my favorite issues from the Iron Fist run due in no small part to the appearance of the X-Men.  Here's a scan of the full page along with a couple of panels:

Thanks for clearing that up JB -- it sure looked like you were trying to mimic Dave in those pages.

So did Dave erase your pencils and replace with his?  Or was it just an inking thing?

I also picked up a couple nice JB Avengers pages at that auction:

What I love about them -- aside from them being from some of the earliest comics I fell in love with -- is the drawing of "non muscle bound oafs" - regular people, cops, etc. -- oh -- and the bell-bottom pants (hehe).   I love it.

Whether on his own, or on orders from on high, Dave took this as a cue to redraw all the other X-Men figures and faces, too.

One good thing in this, mind you, by comparing the images I was able to get a better "fix" on what the characters looked like.

Are you positive the previous owner added the tape? I have older pieces that have tape around certain portions of the edges that seem to have been done during some point of the production process. If you are going to try and remove it I'd only attempt a small area first Joe. Try an exacto knife. If it looks like it will tear or pull up the paper underneath don't try any further.

(Bob Wayne, marketing flak for DC, told an interesting story. It seems that some squarebound comics were shipped from the printers so tightly wrapped that the spines were broken. Retailers complained that they had arrived in their shops not in "mint" condition. Bob pointed out that, if we are going to use the term "mint" to describe something that is not minted, then however the books leave the printers would be "mint".)

That's a shame about the masking tape.  I really enjoy having the margin notes on original art since they provide such a great view into the creative process and the interaction between the writer and artist.

I've found that the extensive margin notes with plot and script details have tended to be original art pages from the 60s and 70s, so I'm very interested to now what lurks beneath the tape on your Spider-Man page.