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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785121626
ISBN: 0785121625
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 568
Publication Date: July 05, 2006
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 115229
Studio: Marvel Comics
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Product Description:
Lee and Kirby spin the classics with characters and concepts that remain among Marvel's mainstays today! After being lorded over in Latveria by Doctor Doom, the FF face a new level of grudge match when the Thing is tapped for the fighting arena of gangster Skrulls! Featuring the enigmatic Inhumans, the Frightful Four, the Mad Thinker and other enduring opponents! Guest-starring Magneto and the Sub-Mariner! Plus: classic invasions from under the earth and under the sea! Collects Fantastic Four #84-110 and Annual #7-8.
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Not unlike professional sports, it is pretty rare to see talent in comics stick with a title for more than a couple years. For that reason, the 102 issues that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby worked on to kick off the Fantastic Four is even more special (beyond the fact that their issues are a lot of fun to read). The Essential Fantastic Four Volume 5 features the last issues of that run and brings in new FF artists John Romita and John Buscema (although Lee continues at the writing helm).
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This is book 5 of the Essential series, which is a "fantastic" series of Black and white reprints of Marvel's silver age material. This section the the fantastic four is Jack Kirby's last on the title, and the work is amazing. His artwork is at his peak, and the inking throughout most of the book by Joe Sinnot is impeccable. I would definitely recommend this to any fan of silver age comics, and anyone who wants to see Kirby's finest work.
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As I state in the title, Kirby's art stands the test of time but Lee's writing comes across as dated and simplistic (he is a great writer by the way but was overworked) but I'm now 42 and demand more complexity to characters and plot lines. Let me comment on both though starting with the art.
The departure of Kirby was devastating to Marvel and especially to the FF as each page looked like a masterpiece. Together with Sinnott's inking you could just stare at the art and wonder how they did it all ... Read More
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But the Thing is smarter than the Hulk, so I think the Thing would win by tricking the Hulk into using his strength against himself. You could argue that this would only make the Hulk angrier, and since the Hulk gets stronger when he gets angrier then maybe that would help him beat up the Thing. But the Thing also has Mister Fantastic, Invisible Girl, and the Human Torch to help him, so I think that would cancel out the Hulk's advantage because the Human Torch would make him get dehydrated because of the heat, ... Read More
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It would be hard to overestimate the effect that Fantastic Four #1 had on the entire medium of comic books. It arrived on newsstands in late 1961, not long after a federal censorship crackdown had nearly destroyed the industry, and it came to life mostly because the publisher wanted to ape the success of DC's Justice League series by having some other team of superheroes. But the FF made their own unique mark by flaunting the staid conventions of the genre (It had a team that didn't always perfectly cooperate ... Read More
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