A Year of Cool Comics – Day 70 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic …
A great, fun issue. Some random observations:
1. Doom’s vengeance: Doom’s uncharacteristic plan was motivated by the injuries that he had sustained in F.F. #40, which, by the way, features the greatest thing vs. Doom battle in history. it would certainly make a very cool moment (hint. hint.).
2. Kosmic Kirby: F.F. annual 3 functions as a neat demarcation point in F.F. history. F.F. 1 through 43 had been dominated by the Namor-Doom-Frightful four axis. Issue 44, which came right after annual 3, witnessed the debut of the Inhumans, an event which inaugerated the cosmic period of FF history (the Inhumans in 43-48, Galactus in 48-50,the Negative Zone in 51, Prester John in 54, the Cosmic powered Doom in 57-60, Blastaar in 61-63, etc.). When people think of the classic FF, they are mostly thinking of the issues from 44 on.
3. Joe Sinnott: Sinnott comes in in issue 44, and his slick, precise inks help to transform Kirby’s art. No longer would the Kirby imagination machine be hindered by so-so inks. now Kirby clould soar.
3.Fun: Annual 43 was just plain fun. This was Kirby and Lee in a playful, joyful mode. the cameos, the guest stars, the parade of villains: it is all too joyful for words.
4. Continuity:the introduction of Patsy Walker on page 3, panel 2 officially brought her into Marvel mainstream continuity, although it took Steve Englehart to to actually bring her in.
5. Note to Brian: You must do the Doctor Strange vs. Dormammu epic in Strange Tales 130-144. it might just be the best sustained story of the 60s, and it has brilliant art by Ditko.
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 70 | Comics should Be Good! @ Comic …
