Monday, 31 October 2016

SPECTACULAR SPLASH PAGES #4...


Image copyright MARVEL COMICS

What fascinates me about this splash page is the caption box. Just why the lettering is spaced within it the way it is puzzles me, as it's an odd layout to be sure.  There's nothing even remotely odd about JACK KIRBY's & DICK AYERS' art though, and the perspective seems spot on.  You really get the sense that the FF are actually floating downward in defiance of gravity, and the alien architecture makes you wonder if Kirby had really been to Planet X.  I mean, how else could he have drawn the darn place so convincingly?
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2 comments:

  1. Britt Reid31 October 2016 at 16:17

    IT was also one of the splashes used by Third Eye in the early 1970s for their black-light poster series (minus the caption)!
    https://illustractiongallery.com/superheroes/fantastic-four-floating-city-marvel-black-light-poster.html

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  2. Kid31 October 2016 at 16:45

    Thanks for that, BR, I remember seeing it before a few years back. It's a shame they couldn't have picked one colour for the costumes and stuck with it 'though.

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