FF

Many years ago, maybe 20, I was at a comic book convention in San Francisco and was browsing through some books when a guy came up and asked the dealer behind the table, "How Much for your FF5?".   The guy pointed to a book on the wall behind the dealer...the wall that contained all the "good stuff".  FF5?  FF?  I was sort of familiar with what he was saying, but I had yet to be exposed to the epic series of the Fantastic Four and to the singular achievement of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in these books.

Jack Kirby did over 100 issues of FF from issue #1 forward.  That's over 2000 pages of comic art.  No wonder he was known as Jack "The King" Kirby.  Featured today is a cover from FF 55 with the Silver Surfer and the Thing.  At the time, the Silver Surfer was a fairly new character, having been introduced in issue 48.  This was the beginning of a three issue story arc that is one of my favorite in the whole FF canon.

In future posts I will be sharing more Kirby work from Thor and his later DC work.  And maybe I will post on FF5 as well...so you can see what that guy was talking about 20 years ago!

In the meantime, enjoy this one...it is a definite "Top 10" FF cover.

Until next time....