SO WHO SCRIPTED FANTASTIC FOUR #1...?

In all three captions, past tense words have been amended
to present tense.  E.g., 'raised' to 'raises', 'flew' to 'fly' and
'flies', 'tried' to 'tries', etc.  Copyright MARVEL COMICS

Something has always niggled the back of my mind about Fantastic Four #1.  The writing, or to be more precise, the scripting.  It doesn't quite seem like Stan Lee's usual style and I wonder if Jack Kirby (or someone else) initially scripted it, only for Stan to redo some segments to imbue his 'voice' into it.  Sheer speculation on my part of course, but I've got to provide something for all you panting Crivvies to read, so I thought I'd indulge myself with this subject.

'Raced' to 'race', 'seized' to 'seizes', 'came' to 'come', 'blazed'
to 'blazes', 'melted' to 'melts'.  Note also the last 4 lines of the
end caption appear to have been altered, suggesting that the
story was perhaps originally intended for  a different mag

Stan normally scripted in the present tense, yet there are quite a few obvious examples of lettering amendments to transform past tense words into present tense ones.  Some past tense words remain in an earlier segment of the tale, but that's a flashback so it's entirely appropriate to have done so.  Take a look at the following examples and see what you think.  The amendments are pretty obvious so I won't spell them all out (except in the 'footnotes') as there's no point in overkill, but I can't help but wonder exactly what happened in this instance.

The 'eyes' have it!  Have what?  Don't seem to have their heads in panel 3

FF #1 is a peculiar issue as it's filled with contrived introductions of the four characters and inconsistences in the art.  For example, Reed has two left hands in one panel (not shown, but see here), and Ben Grimm's attire switches from peaked cap and windcheater-type jacket in a couple of panels (above) to slouch hat and overcoat in others (below).  Note also that in the third panel of the above tier, there's no room for the monster's three heads behind the eyes - it's almost as though they're disembodied and floating in mid air. 

Note Ben has four fingers and a thumb in panel 1, and it's unclear whether a finger has been
added to his right hand in panel 3.  And his left thigh seems far too thin in the middle panel

Am I perhaps being too pernickety, Crivvies?  Then be sure to tell me so in the comments section.  (Incidentally, the lettering amendments will be more noticeable if you click on the images to enlarge and study them.)