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We recently reached the end of a look back at the American version of The THING's own mag, but we still have a few issues of the British incarnation to work through. It only lasted for 18 issues so can hardly be considered a success, but I've got to fill these posts with something so it might as well be this.
This time around, I've only included the splash pages of the stories (which were split into two or three parts) and left out the 'recap' pages in the subsequent issues. Don't despair though - still here is HUNT EMERSON's DONALD DOGFLY to amuse and entertain you.
I think it was an unwise editorial decision to utilise the issue's main splash page as the cover illustration for #9, because not only is it an extremely un-dynamic image for a cover, it tends to make blogs like this look like they're 'stuttering' when the images are re-presented 30 years later.
Anyway, two more posts will complete this particular series, so hope to see you back here then - if not sooner.
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Kid, if you're looking for things to put on the blog don't forget some more issues of Marvel Superheroes (the UK monthly) and that run of Captain Britain from 1976/77 that you seem to have forgotten about ! That close-up cover and splash page of Ben Grimm looks very Kirbyesque in style to me - exactly like Kirby used to draw him, perhaps it's just my imagination though. In recent years I've discovered that Ben is supposed to be Jewish - he had a long overdue Bar Mitzvah (or something) in one issue I read. Was this ever mentioned in the '60s/'70s as I don't remember anything about it. Perhaps it was supposed to be obvious and it just went over my head.....?
ReplyDeleteOne of the things I love about your blog is the fact that UK and US comics are given equal importance for those of us who love ALL things comic-related. It doesn't matter if a particular title was a resounding success or not! If they existed please continue to show us them. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteBen's ethnicity wasn't mentioned in the '6os that I'm aware of, CJ. I don't think Stan or Jack bothered about who was supposed to be what in that regard. As for the '70s, I'm not quite sure if Ben being Jewish was ever mentioned or not.
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Gasp! You mean there's MORE than ONE thing you love about this blog, JP? Some people don't think there's EVEN one thing to love about it. (Obviously they have no taste.)
Oh yes, there's more! Continue giving me what I want and I will tell you!
DeleteBrilliant, brilliant post, Kid.
ReplyDeleteI love the Ff like no other and these covers bring tears to my eyes [only cause I am old enough to remember them, lol].
Love that splash where Ben is lying in a hospital bed and the form says 'BJ' [lol].
Really excellent post today.
Good to know that someone enjoyed it as much as you did, Karl. Thanks for letting me know.
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I'd better dig out some more episodes of the Dolls of Doom then, I suppose, JP.
Another thing I love is the way you personally try ( and succeed! ) to please your readers!
DeleteBenjy's my favorite comic character, hands down.
ReplyDeleteBatman is a very distant second...
Y'know, those two guys did run into each other in a crossover some years back.
Batman was speechless, Ben did all the talkin'.
Y'know, I have to be honest - I preferred the morose, surly, anti-social Thing of the first few issues of the FF, Mlp. I wasn't too keen on the wise-cracking teddy bear he later became.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm an ingratiating little b*st*rd - just can't help myself.
ReplyDeleteIssue 10 is a peach, The Thing in hospital, in bed with the, not quite emblazoned, sting "The Visitor [exclamation mark]". Er yeah, that one's gonna fly of the news stands.
ReplyDeleteYeah, some of these covers just didn't convey the action and excitement that was surely meant to be contained within.
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