PART TEN OF FOOM COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

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We're getting there, slowly but surely - only another three issues to go 'til we complete our journey through the magnificence, the magic, the MARVEL that was FOOM.  Okay, that's an exaggeration merely to indulge in a bit of alliterative word-play, but FOOM had some good content throughout its 22 issue run.  This time around it's The DEFENDERS that comes under the spotlight, but there's also an interesting look into the mind of JACK KIRBY and his working relationship with STAN LEE.  (See preview page below.)

Was Jack simply saying what he thought, career-wise, was the right thing to say, or were the sentiments he expressed sincere and genuine?  They're certainly at odds with what he later said in the now-infamous GARY GROTH interview a few short years before he died.  (Although Jack later regretted and recanted some of his more bitter assertions and accusations when it was pointed out that they didn't really bear serious scrutiny.)  So what did Jack really think?  We'll probably never know for sure, but I'd prefer to believe that Jack was telling it like it was in the comments below - before frustration at perceived injustices he believed he was victim to set in.

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