Thursday, March 6, 2014
Fantastic Four 100 by Jack Kirby
Okay, this is sad---we were playing sandlot football in between two family housing buildings in Nurnberg, when Scottie Scott came running up with the brand-new FF #100. The game stopped because I was all-time QB and I wanted to see this comic. "Whoa! Great cover!" "Oh, yeah, baby!" "Hey, everything's tiny!" "What gives?" "You can barely see the pictures!" "This sucks!" "Rip-off!"
After a minute or two, we went back to our game. Here you see what I consider the best of a bad lot, some of the interiors. And a great cover (Well, my copy's not so great--for one thing, the Hulk has a big crease on his back, and we all know, "Nobody give Hulk crease on his back!")
Jack's alter-ego, The Thing, sums it up great in one of these panels, if I sub one word, "Hey! What's goin' on here? The whole blamed comic is comin' apart!"
As the poet once said: Not with a bang, but a whimper
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