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Here's a trio of covers from recent Facsimile Editions for your viewing pleasure, Crivs. I can't remember when I last bought a new comic - I tend to buy mainly reprints and facsimiles these days, even when (in the case of FF #6) I already have various representations of it in a number of collected editions. I'm looking forward to FF #7, Kurrgo, The Master Of Planet X, as it's one of my favourite early FF tales. If you were only going to buy one of these mags, which issue would it be - and why? The comments section awaits.
(Incidentally, take a look at Doctor Doom's left arm, which seems to be pointing slightly away from him to his left. Yet the beam emanating from it seems to be exploding to his right, behind The Thing, who is far too small in relation to the other characters.)
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6 comments:
I'd buy the FF one which I first read in The Complete FF in the autumn of 1977.
Happy 53rd anniversary of moving into your house, Kid!
Thanks, CJ. 53 years, eh? Just where did the time go? And Happy 50th Anniversary on you first becoming a Merry Marvel Maniac.
Well, the 50th anniversary was actually on November 16th last year, Kid, but thanks anyway :)
Of course, because you're first Marvel mag was POTA #5, not #35. Still got the ol' brain fog, as you can see, CJ. My above response was intended for the other post you commented on. Happy belated Anniversary then.
By the way, I too liked the Kurrgo story and it reminds me of Christmas because it was reprinted in The Complete FF #13 and 14 which were the final two issues before Christmas in 1977 - I got #14 on the very day we broke up for the Christmas holidays on December 22nd.
I first read the Kurrgo story spread over two issues of Wham!, then again in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics, both back in the '60s, CJ. Then in MWOM (again in two parts) in the '70s, as well as Complete FF a few years after (two parts again). Nowadays, as well as having the aforementioned comics (CFF are my originals, the others replacements), I have the tale in Masterworks and Omnibus volumes, as well as this new Facsimile Edition.
As you'll likely know, there was a mistake in the original issue, where enlarging gas was rendered as reducing gas at the end of the story, which was confusing, though it was corrected in most subsequent reprints. However, the facsimile retains the error.
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