FANTASTIC FOUR #12 FACSIMILE EDITION...

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Not long arrived, Fantastic Four #12 Facsimile Edition, bringing to an end the sequential release of the first dozen FF comics, though if they've been selling in droves, who knows - perhaps Marvel will decide to continue with subsequent issues in an unbroken monthly line.  I remember reading this tale, I think for the first time, in The Mighty World Of Marvel #s 24 & 25 (it was spread over two issues) back in 1973, and now, 52 years later, I've just read it again.  (I've read it several times over the years, of course, in different reprints, but there's a special significance to me to read it on a Saturday, just as I did 52 years back, and also 5 years later in The Complete Fantastic Four #s 24 & 25 in 1978.)

Anyway, this has been a great run of mags as, even though I have various reprints of the first 12 tales, it's nice to have them in individual facsimiles, with original ads, letters pages, and pin-ups.  I've bought two of each issue, one set for reading and just looking at, the other to tuck away somewhere as back-up copies.  Actually, that's not quite true, as I purchased several copies of #1.  Anyway, if you've been dithering about acquiring this (or any previous) issue for yourselves, perhaps the following chapter pages will persuade you to take the plunge.  Thing is, should Marvel ever decide to reprint them yet again, but without the intrusive barcode boxes on the front covers, I know I'll just have to buy them all over again.