856 – Namor as a Hero?

2025-02-21
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In Fantastic Four #6 (June 1962), while we get some light-hearted ribbing of the Thing by Johnny Storm about his Yancy Street Gang hate mail, we also get a nice cross-section view of the finally-named Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four headquarters. This headquarters “cutout” far out-classes the old cross-section view of the Bat-Cave from 1942. […]

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847 – Doctor Doom!

2025-01-31
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The Fantastic Four finally get a worthy nemesis with Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four #5 (April 1962). The tale starts with the now-familiar inter-team jabs and squabbles, with Johnny Storm reading the The Incredible Hulk comic and suggesting the Hulk reminds him of The Thing. So it’s cross-promotion within a Marvel comic book, but no […]

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