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Here's one I meant to show you last week - The Fantastic Four #2 Facsimile Edition. Indicia in the wrong place (should be under the inside cover's ad), though it's got the 'Continued After Next Page' lines, which adds to its 'archival authenticity'. Here's a few images to whet your appetite Crivvies - it'll look good sitting next to your facsimile of FF #1. I wish Marvel would do FEs of all the Lee/Kirby FF issues - that'd be awesome.
At the story's end, one of the Skrulls disappears, meaning Jack perhaps intended him to have died when his rocket-pack exploded after colliding with Johnny, or a page was omitted for reasons of space. If the former, maybe Stan wanted to avoid casualties, hence there being no reference to any demise. Four Skrulls are shown tied up in one panel, but unless a page was cut, one Skrull might've been added by another hand to make up the numbers, before Stan decided just to explain the absentee with a hastily-contrived (and inadequate) remark from Reed.
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Below is the cover as it was originally produced, before being amended for publication at the behest of Stan (in all likelihood).
Note that when the speech balloons were removed, part of the tail (pointer) of Johnny's was missed. Where are the proofreaders when you need them?
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Cover not accurate either, carrying the floorboard lines into the wall. The real ish 2 didn't have that. I hope the following ten are more accurate.
If there are any more in sequential order, that is. Actually, Jack originally drew the cover with the floorboards going right up to the two horizontal lines under the window, but changes were made before it was published. The floorboards were moved further away from the window (with the simple application of some process white), the caption was slightly revised, the speech balloons were removed, and so were the characters' name blurbs.
This was either created from a stat of the original cover (as drawn) which was revised to that of the published cover, or it's perhaps the original altered stat and some of the process white has fallen off. Either way, the editor of these reprints should've noticed. It's been overlooked in earlier reprintings going back many years.
I've added the cover as originally drawn to the post so that you can see for yourself.
I'm looking forward to picking up some of the later issues in this facsimilie series , issues 10 to 12 in particular were favourites of mine when I first read them in the Mighty World of Marvel . Have you seen the trailer for the new FF movie yet Kid?
Haven't seen it yet, McS, any good? I'll Google search it later.
I thought it looked fun. A few things purists won't like, there's the robot from the 1980s ( I think) cartoon series, The Thing seems to be totally CGI and wears a costume. The costumes themselves look like the original ones although bright blue .
Sounds like something to look forward to, McS. I'll catch the trailer tonight - off for a lie down at the mo.
I noted the disappearing Skrull in an essay I wrote years ago, but I confess I never considered the possibility that one of them just got blown to atoms. It would have been a good editorial save, one Stan could have used rather than the one he did use, but I think it's likely that Kirby just got caught up in the story and forgot to keep count.
I addressed the matter in a post back in 2012, called Even More Loopy Lapses In Logic Dept - The Mystery Of The Missing Skrull... - give it a look-see, GP.
Hit those Skrulls with that vase Sue!!!
She's obviously got Glaswegian ancestors.
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