Pictured above is the cover of Fantastic Four #26, published in 1964. It was one of the very first Marvel Comics that I ever read. The cover was drawn by the amazing Jack Kirby, a comic book legend.
But... Take a close look at that cover. Compare the size of the superheroes as opposed to the size of the individual, skeletal rooms in that skyscraper-in-progress. Either those heroes are pretty damned big, or those rooms are pretty damned small.
Leave it to Kirby to draw something so dynamic that a little detail like that escaped my notice for over fifty years!
Thanks for your time.
haha well a few of them are big, one can grow as tall as the building, so maybe he wanted to average everything out?
ReplyDeleteWhatever his reason, as a cover, it just works!
Deletehaha - very observant of you, but perhaps it was done on purpose. It's about perception. The superheroes are perceived as stronger than the building itself. Hey, just a thought.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm sure it was done on purpose. I think he just used artistic license to make a better illustration for the cover. There's nothing like that inside the book.
DeleteHa ha - it would never have occurred to me that the rooms were too small for those superheroes.
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It only took me fifty-four years to notice!
DeleteHey I have this issue and many more! I have issues #1 and #2 then a gap till #9. I was an avid collector of comics till the early '80s.
ReplyDeleteThe first issue of FF that I ever saw was the first Annual. Number twenty-six (which I've owned twice during my life) was my first regular issue, but thanks to my barber, I was able to score a #8 and a #10, and thanks to my cousin Curtis, I got an old copy of #18. Nowadays, I own none of those issues.
DeleteI checked out your profile and your blog, by the way. We have a few things in common. I, too, am from Massachusetts, about fifty miles southwest of Boston (by the Connecticut border). I've also been a musician like yourself, and I worked off and on at various supermarkets during my younger days. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Yes, I'd say the scale is a bit off. haha. But very cool cover to look at anyway!
ReplyDeleteRight. For whatever reason, it just works.
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