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[pickycollector]

[InfantTerrible]

As per latest MCU announcement, FF movie may not come out until late 2023, and that's a good thing, give me more time to collect more FF SA books

[Jasonmorris1000000]

I love your CGC board name

22 minutes ago, InfantTerrible said:

As per latest MCU announcement, FF movie may not come out until late 2023, and that's a good thing, give me more time to collect more FF SA books

 

[namisgr]

[pickycollector]

[Straw-Man]

[Jasonmorris1000000]

[KirbyJack]

[Steviehuv66]

[WernerVonDoom]

[Frisco Larson]

[Straw-Man]

[KirbyJack]

[WernerVonDoom]

[KirbyJack]

So, I have a question. When did The World's Greatest Comic Magazine really start living up to its name? Was it right from the jump with #1? Was it issue #35, when the continuing stories began? Most say it was #44, when Sinnott started inking that first Inhumans story arc. Some other one? I heard someone say #5 once.

Any thoughts?

 

[Straw-Man]

1 hour ago, KirbyJack said:

So, I have a question. When did The World's Greatest Comic Magazine really start living up to its name? Was it right from the jump with #1? Was it issue #35, when the continuing stories began? Most say it was #44, when Sinnott started inking that first Inhumans story arc. Some other one? I heard someone say #5 once.

Any thoughts?

 

i object to the form of the question.

[KCOComics]

1 hour ago, KirbyJack said:

So, I have a question. When did The World's Greatest Comic Magazine really start living up to its name? Was it right from the jump with #1? Was it issue #35, when the continuing stories began? Most say it was #44, when Sinnott started inking that first Inhumans story arc. Some other one? I heard someone say #5 once.

Any thoughts?

 

I think it was right out of the gate. 

Those early stories were pretty campy.  It was a cross between the science fiction stories of Atlas and the play it safe super heros DC was rolling out.  

But right out of the gate, the characters were more relatable than prior super heros and the stories focused more on their personal lives and dramas. That was important.  

Also Kirby's covers were so great!!! FF1 is right there with Hulk 1 for my favorite cover of the SA. I would also argue it was Kirby's depiction of Doctor Doom that gave us the greatest villain in Marvel history. Doom's first story was AWFUL.  But Kirby made him so fearsome and compelling Marvel knew they had something to build on. 

As the series progressed the stories got less and less campy and even in some of their earlier issues they were really coming around.  Between issues like 35 and into at least issues in the 60s they were at their best. Those are the stories that made me a comic book fan. 

[namisgr]

I loved the undersea story featuring Attuma in FF33, and think there were very few weak issues thereafter.

This was not one of the Pacific Coast comics I was able to buy raw in the days before CGC, but when it came up for sale I had to add it to the handful already in my collection.  Unlike them, I suspect this one was probably pressed:

Edited May 5, 2021 by namisgr

[Jasonmorris1000000]

[KirbyJack]

1 hour ago, Straw-Man said:

i object to the form of the question.

Over freaking ruled. Let’s have an answer, counselor.