Yeah, my first choice on the Fourth World is always Kirby.
But it's hard to dispute the quality of later work on the same characters by the likes of Rogers and Aparo.
Or on anything else they worked on.
Aparo in particular sustained his quality for most of the 100 issues he worked on BRAVE & THE BOLD.
Rogers, while producing a large volume of work, I think suffered from the fact that he didn't do runs for any sustained length of time, like, say, the Claremont/Byrne/Austin X-MEN run that ran for 35 issues, over close to 4 years. (Austin was making a name for himself not only inking X-MEN, but also the Englehart/Rogers DETECTIVE issues at the exact same time.
The longest run Rogers did was his DETECTIVE Batman run, "The Calculator backups in 466-468 with Rozakis, the classic 471-476 with Englehart, a few pages framing an Adams reprint in 477, two issues with Wein and Giordano in 478-479, and another final good issue with O'Neil in 481. So just when people began to know he was doing good work on Batman, he was gone. And even if they were reading all along, it was a bit uneven, in issues collaborating with 4 different writers.
Even more so with MISTER MIRACLE 19-22, only 4 issues, just the slightest sampling of what Englehart/Rogers could do on the series. But still, a damn good 4 issues.
