Friday, July 11, 2014

Back Issue! #74, August


Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four changed everything for me as far as reading comic books goes.  I remember buying Fantastic Four #1 off the newsstand because of 'the funny looking orange monster." 

I was hooked from that issue I continued to read the FF religiously up and through the John Byrne issues.  After that point I kept up with the title buying issues dictated by the artists or writers.

Ask most FF fans and they'll agree that the Silver Age issues were the best.  I agree-to a point.  I've found that many of the Bronze Age issues had some of the best stories, killer art and many of the concepts introduced in those issues resonate throughout Marvel Comics' Universe to this day.

Back Issue! #74 from TwoMorrows Publishing examines the long neglected Bronze Age of the FF with  lots of original art, sketches, interviews and more.

Rich Buckler, John Byrne, George Perez, John Buscema and a smattering of other artists graced the book with their art while some now familiar names wrote the scripts.

Here's what Back Issue! has in store in this issue:

BACK SEAT DRIVER: Editorial by Michael Eury
FLASHBACK: The Fantastic Four in the 1970s Building upon the foundation laid by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
FLASHBACK: Human Torch Solo, a No-Go
Marvel’s kinda-sorta efforts to spin off Johnny Storm
BACKSTAGE PASS: The Fantastic Four and Other Things
A television history of the animated FF
INTERVIEW: Marvel Comics on the Air
Tune in to The Fantastic Four Radio Show!
WHAT THE--?!: The Impossible Man
The Bronze Age return of the pest who was never supposed to come back
OFF MY CHEST: The Fantastic Four: Going Cheap
Rob Kelly remembers the once-plentiful Mego FF figures
BRING ON THE BAD GUYS: Galactus
The Devourer of Worlds is not your average supervillain
FLASHBACK: The Fantastic Four in the 1980s
A time of maturity and change for the FF and friends
BACK TALK
Captain and Colonel Future, reader comments about BI #69, and some FF extras