PART TWO OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR MAGS THAT NEVER WERE (COVER GALLERY)…

Copyright MARVEL COMICS.  An ok duvet from Kirby, but no longer one in all his most efficient

As explained in part one, these comics ‘never were’ (in my home) biggest in the sense that I never truly owned (or even seen) most of them once they were first printed all those murky and much-off a protracted time ago.  Or no longer it’s biggest in the last few weeks that I’ve managed to occupy in the gaps in my recent FF collection, which in itself includes replacements received years ago of the recent mags I purchased support in the ’70s.  So part of that decade (comics-wise) which I never skilled at the time has now, retroactively, been absorbed into my memories of those halcyon days of yore.    

Now, I abominate to admit it (so, fortunately, infrequently any individual ever reads this weblog), but I was always a little bit of a ‘paper pin-up perv’, in that ‘swish girl art’ used to be, for me, customarily the deciding component when it came to selecting a funny guide from the teeming ranks which graced the spinner-racks of my convey of beginning newsagents.  I had an instantaneous crush on Susan Storm, alias The Invisible Girl (first one who asks what I seen in her can leave now) when I first laid eyes on her in b&w in UK weekly comics Smash! and Wham!  For the historians among you, sequentially, Wham! came first, however the FF’s beginning used to be printed concurrently in every papers, and at the time, I was buying Smash! on memoir of the Batman strip it also featured.  (I soon began getting Wham! to boot when I realised the FF seemed weekly.)

This would possibly attributable to this reality reach as no shock to any person that one in all the causes I made up my thoughts to drag the gaps in my FF bustle used to be resulting from of a couple of of the covers featuring Susie in all her alluring feminine class.  She restful rings my bell, even in my recent condition of decrepit feeble f@rt, who’s too previous it to procedure even a first survey from an accurate-life feminine, never thoughts a second one.  Anyway, behold should always it’s doubtless you’ll perchance presumably presumably assign the covers whereby Susie particularly attracts my attention and verbalize should always you likewise feel her attract tugging at your heartstrings – or any assorted part of your anatomy.

So, yeah, it be in all likelihood a bit outlandish to search out line drawings of a ‘four-coloration’ feminine handsome, but it completely would possibly presumably’ve been worse.  It would possibly perchance presumably’ve been Ben Grimm’s lumpy orange dermis that made my heart beat a bit sooner and that would’ve been significantly odd.  Anyway, I now scream the comments part beginning – would possibly presumably goal God bless her and all who flee in her.  (Eh?)

The standpoint of the structures on the left-hand side is poor, Ben’s too minute and Thundra’s body is vital too distorted.  It hassle me to issue it, but this is harmful fare from Jack Kirby

The auto looks as if it be parked on the pavement and Ben’s too excessive in the air.  Additionally, the  sizes of the bystanders in the background should always now not per the house they occupy

But one other Kirby-Klunker.  The resolve of the Torch is poorly drawn and all over but again Ben is simply too minute in terms of the figures in the support of him.  Kirby’s skills had abandoned him

This duvet completely has ‘affect’, though would possibly presumably’ve been better.  I deem this used to be Jack’s closing duvet for the FF’s usual monthly magazine, but should always you admire of any others be positive to notify me

John Byrne spotted a flaw on this story’s theory.  The Element is a monster, so how can there be a monster model of him?  He realised Ben had develop into too significant of a cuddly ‘teddy maintain’ in appearance over time, and ‘roughened’ him up when he was author/artist on the magazine