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Post by benday-dot on May 5, 2014 22:23:50 GMT -5
Ooooh...you were off by ten with the 'FF #44'...I'm presuming (nearly always a dangerous thing to do) that you mean the FF #34 alias "A House Divided!". That is currently the oldest non-reprint FF issue I own, and I got it last summer at an antique mall in Mount Airy, NC for only $15, which I thought was a steal with its being in a remarkably clean and crease-less shape. My other two oldest non-reprint owned issues are Annual #3 (won in a 40th Anniversary contest back in 2001) and #100. And if it hadn't been for (very stupidly) selling my Lee/Kirby issues during a hiatus I took for awhile, my other oldest issue behind #34 and Annual #3 would have been #51 alias "This Man, This Monster!"...only one of THE issues near everyone, even a few FF 'haters' in my readings/encounters through the years, hail as one of the greatest comic stories ever published. My FF run also starts with issue #34. This is for three reasons: 1. The title really starts getting going at this point. FF was a bit of a late bloomer. 2. The issues get progressively more and more expensive as you get into 1964 and back beyond 3. I made it a goal to get every Kirby comic from Jan 1965 to Kirby's death in 1993. This I have done. My FF run goes from 34-102. Then I am missing a handful of issues up to 2002. Then I have all but another handful of the Byrne issues. Then I kind of quit comics and stopped caring about the FF ... Sorry, Ms. F, I'm sure its my loss
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 22:43:28 GMT -5
The first issue of FF I ever bought off the stands was #163... which went on sale just after my sixth birthday. I probably bought because of the hockey imagery as I was already a huge fan of the New England Whalers and attended games whenever my dad got tickets. I was a bit confused by the 2 Johnny Storms in the issue at the time, as I was familiar with Human Torch from issues of Marvel Team Up I had. It must not have made a very good impression on me as a kid though, as I did not get another issue of FF until 185 (which I must have liked more because I got 185-187). As I have noted elsewhere, I was a die hard Avengers fan as a kid, but I did like the FF. I had gotten Origins and Son of Origins and really liked the early FF issues there, and Marvel Two-In-One was a frequent buy with my allowance as well. However, I did not start reading FF regularly until I was old enough to have a job and a decent comic budget, which was sometime in the middle of the Byrne run. I've now read through much of the Kirby run via Masterworks (1-20) and Essentials (most of the rest). Overall I will say I like the FF, but I don't think I ever loved them. They are the cornerstone of the MU, and there are a lot of amazing stories, but like Scott Harris, I never really connected to them the way I did with the Avengers or Doc Strange, or even Spider-Man when I was younger. I still read and enjoy some FF stuff, and am always eager to sample the stuff from between Kirby and Byrne, but I will never have a passion for the the FF the way some of y'all do.I think it's great that y'all do have that passion though, I love seeing comics connect with people that way. -M
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Post by Hoosier X on May 5, 2014 23:26:05 GMT -5
Ooooh...you were off by ten with the 'FF #44'...I'm presuming (nearly always a dangerous thing to do) that you mean the FF #34 alias "A House Divided!". That is currently the oldest non-reprint FF issue I own, and I got it last summer at an antique mall in Mount Airy, NC for only $15, which I thought was a steal with its being in a remarkably clean and crease-less shape. My other two oldest non-reprint owned issues are Annual #3 (won in a 40th Anniversary contest back in 2001) and #100. And if it hadn't been for (very stupidly) selling my Lee/Kirby issues during a hiatus I took for awhile, my other oldest issue behind #34 and Annual #3 would have been #51 alias "This Man, This Monster!"...only one of THE issues near everyone, even a few FF 'haters' in my readings/encounters through the years, hail as one of the greatest comic stories ever published. I thought the FF Annual #3 was FF #44 for some reason. (They are very small.) And I thought the other one was #34, but then I thought it might be #22, so I declined to guess.
In the late 1970s, I had an FF #4 that I paid $25 for. It was a little beat up, with some pieces of tape on the cover, but it wasn't too bad. (Back then you could get issues in the 20s for $10 to $15 in F/VF grade. I had a beautiful #26 that I bought for $11. And in 1976, I got FF #16 and #19 in VG for 6$ each. And you wouldn't believe, before Frank Miller, Daredevil was a steal. I got an absolutely gorgeous Daredevil #6 in VF/NM for $3 about 1976 or so.)
This Man, This Monster is an amazing story. I had a reprint of that early on when I got the Marvel Treasury Edition that's shown elsewhere on this thread.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 5, 2014 23:30:11 GMT -5
Does anybody know what happened to Thundra? She appeared a few times in the first year or so I was reading The Fantastic Four (1976 to 1977) but I don't remember her ever appearing again. Maybe she did appear but I've just forgotten about it.
I was fairly neutral to Thundra back then, but after recently reading her earliest appearances, I'm intrigued. She's pretty cool. Did she really drop out of sight that abruptly after 1977?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 5, 2014 23:56:21 GMT -5
Does anybody know what happened to Thundra? She appeared a few times in the first year or so I was reading The Fantastic Four (1976 to 1977) but I don't remember her ever appearing again. Maybe she did appear but I've just forgotten about it. I was fairly neutral to Thundra back then, but after recently reading her earliest appearances, I'm intrigued. She's pretty cool. Did she really drop out of sight that abruptly after 1977? marvel.com/universe/ThundralinkI bought FF#1 for $5 in 1970 then sold it and bought it again for $400 in 1978 then sold it again.Probably due to buy it again in 2022
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 6, 2014 0:54:36 GMT -5
I started reading FF during Walt Simonson's run in the late 80's and at the same time discovered Byrne's run through The Trial of Galactus TPB. I didn't get to read any Lee/Kirby FF till the Marvel Masterworks started coming out and it was years after that that I finally read the entire run from start to finish.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 6, 2014 1:19:43 GMT -5
Does anybody know what happened to Thundra? She appeared a few times in the first year or so I was reading The Fantastic Four (1976 to 1977) but I don't remember her ever appearing again. Maybe she did appear but I've just forgotten about it. I was fairly neutral to Thundra back then, but after recently reading her earliest appearances, I'm intrigued. She's pretty cool. Did she really drop out of sight that abruptly after 1977? Thundra got married to Arkon in WCA #75 if I remember correctly, and moved to his dimension. I gather that she returned to the regular MU a few years ago, but I'm not up on anything that has happened with her recently.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 6, 2014 6:38:25 GMT -5
I remember asking my Grandmother to buy me Marvels greatest comics #29( reprint of FF #12)off the newsstands but it was too much money(25cents) so she bought me FF #102 instead. It was after that ,that I became a FF fan. My era was the Ff battling the Overmind, Hulk, Galactus 111-160's. I have the run from 115-412 and the rest in reprints. Kirby was great but I place John Buscema right there with him.
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Post by hondobrode on May 6, 2014 7:58:33 GMT -5
Does anybody know what happened to Thundra? She appeared a few times in the first year or so I was reading The Fantastic Four (1976 to 1977) but I don't remember her ever appearing again. Maybe she did appear but I've just forgotten about it. I was fairly neutral to Thundra back then, but after recently reading her earliest appearances, I'm intrigued. She's pretty cool. Did she really drop out of sight that abruptly after 1977? I think she's been pretty gone, though I always thought she and the Femzons should be more prevalent. I've hardly read Marvel the last 10 years, but remember from the solicits that Hulk met her on his Planet Hulk adventure and sired his son Skaar with her. My first FF 172, one of my first comics ever. Mom bought it for me at an airport while we were waiting for my dad to fly in. Still love those 2 treasuries and that Byrne poster. Great shrine, Miss F !
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 13:27:05 GMT -5
Somebody had linked to a website about the Fantastic Four that seemed pretty exhaustive on CBR (not sure if it was on Classics or not) that I bookmarked but apparently deleted. Anybody know what I'm talking about and have a link? I know that's not much to go on, but since I'm starting Fantastic Four soon I'd like to have that to refer to from time to time.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 6, 2014 13:42:25 GMT -5
Somebody had linked to a website about the Fantastic Four that seemed pretty exhaustive on CBR (not sure if it was on Classics or not) that I bookmarked but apparently deleted. Anybody know what I'm talking about and have a link? I know that's not much to go on, but since I'm starting Fantastic Four soon I'd like to have that to refer to from time to time. You may be referring to this.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 13:45:25 GMT -5
That's it! Thanks.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 6, 2014 15:36:21 GMT -5
That is a really good site. I was going to link to it in my first post, but it slipped my mind by the time I got done typing up the post.
Thanks for bringing it up, mars. And thanks for finding it, Ozymandias.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 16:13:18 GMT -5
I gather that she returned to the regular MU a few years ago, but I'm not up on anything that has happened with her recently. She popped up in these stories a few years back, I know --
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 16:18:20 GMT -5
Thundra appears to have a cleft-boob on that cover.
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