Amazon.com's Price: $14.95 Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Now!
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785107316
ISBN: 0785107312
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: October 01, 1999
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Sales Rank: 140933
Studio: Marvel Comics
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
As some other reviewers have commented, this second volume of the World's Greatest Comic Magazine doesn't come close to the first. Stan Lee hammers home the bickering elements of Marvel's First Family and the "O, woe is me" element of the Thing. Plus, Reed always seems to have a gadget lying around to save the day. You can tell that Lee was starting to get overworked by this stage of Marvel's development, though I know when I get volume three, I'll see some of the really good stuff!
Rating:  -
While this issue also contains many great classics such as the introduction of the Frightful Four,a fab X-Men crossover and a couple great Dr. Doom tales,it proudly re-produces the greatest comic-story ever told. FF#25 is,in my opinion,the greatest fight ever produced by the twin towers of Lee & Kirby(I, by the way have,over the years,read every issue of all Avengers,Spiderman,FF,Thor,Hulk,X-Men...all the way down to Dazzler,Spiderwoman and even (ouch) Eternals,titles marvel has come out with, ... Read More
Rating: -
This book has better plotted stories than the 1st "Essential FF". However, the idea of the group fighting/breaking up recurs too many times as a plotline. Other than that, we get several excellent Dr. Doom stories-his origin and the "Battle of the Baxter Building" are classics. The Baxter Building story has a poignant moment when Reed Richards must decide whether to turn Ben Grimm back into the Thing (possibly forever). The Hate Monger, in his 1st appearance is a very provacative ... Read More
Rating: -
The Marvel Essential series of books leaves me with a bittersweet feeling. While I love the stories, think it's great that we get twenty issues reprinted per volume, and can't deny that the price is right, there is always the spectre of the superior Marvel Masterworks series hanging overhead.
Here are the facts: With the Essential series you get about twenty comics reprinted in a paperback format, with black and white artwork, on what seems to be pulpy acidic paper.
The Masterworks ... Read More
Rating: -
Comics fans usually date the Silver Age of the medium from the first appearance of the Fantastic Four in FF#1. By the time the issues collected in "Essential Fantastic Four vol.2" appeared, however, the magazine had lost quite a bit of its initial steam. Jack Kirby's art still retained its powerful punch, but Stan Lee's writing began to show the strain as he tried to crank out multiple Marvel titles every month.
As a result, the FF went through a number of odd mood swings, such ... Read More
|
