SPOT The DIFFERENCE: The FANTASTIC FOUR #2...

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Above is the cover of The FANTASTIC FOUR #2 as originally prepared (without the colour, which was added for a MASTERWORKS volume), below as it saw publication after STAN LEE decided it needed some revision.  What do you think, readers, were the changes an improvement or not?  Either way, what are the reasons for your view?  (Note that in the one below, part of the floorboards run into the wall.  Either the 'published' cover was re-created and the lines were missed when the floor was 'lowered', or the process white used to obscure them cracked and fell off.  Also, the end of JOHNNY'S speech balloon tail has been missed.) 

BABE Of The DAY - LESLIE BIANCHINI...

I know what's on LESLIE's mind

as she gazes over at me while I scoff a

fish supper.  "Give me one of your chips

you fat, greedy slob!" she's thinking.  No

chance - after all, I've gotta think of her

 figure.  (Easy job, admittedly.)

CALLING 'MY OLD COMICS' BLOG...

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JP over at MY OLD COMICS blog was looking for this ad,

so I thought I'd dig it out for him.  The rest of you are allowed

to look at it as well though, 'cos I'm a generous sort of guy!

FAVOURITE COMICS Of The PAST PART FIFTY-THREE - FANTASTIC FOUR #234...

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'Twas on one of the upper floors of Glasgow's VIRGIN Megastore in 1981 that I bought the above issue of The FANTASTIC FOUR.  I couldn't say off the top of my head when I'd last read a copy of the FF, but it'd been a good while, probably back in the '70s.  This was the number that brought me back into the fold, and I soon tracked down the previous two issues (the start of JOHN BYRNE's reign) from a shop called WONDERWORLD in Bournemouth.

Altogether, John Byrne wrote and drew 62 issues (and plotted what would've been his 63rd if he'd not moved over to DC to reboot SUPERMAN), plus two annuals, and, in my famously humble opinion, the FF hadn't been so consistently good since the days of STAN & JACK.  This was the issue that drew me back in, and guess what?  The world would never again be the same - for me anyway.

1981, eh?  A whole 36 years ago, yet it seems like only three or four at the very most.  The pics in this post were scanned from the original comic I got back then, which is still in the same condition as when I got it.  If only I were in as good shape as the mag, I'd be a whole lot happier.

Got any memories of this issue?  Then why not use a few seconds of your allotted 15 minutes of fame and share them with us in the comments section?  Go on, we're a willing audience who'd love to read your reminiscences!

"EXTERMINATE!" - DALEKMANIA...

DALEKS copyright BBC TV and the Estate of TERRY NATION.
Dr. WHO copyright BBC TV

Someone asked to see The DALEKS DVD set, so here it is.  There are three cards, two of which feature the two movies, while the third card has an army of the Scions of SKARO.  (Actually, it's only one Dalek, duplicated multiple times.)  The back of each card respectively lists the scene index for the films and DALEKMANIA documentary, and the discs show artwork from the posters.

Here - take a look for yourselves...