YOUR Best of the Fantastic Four
Well, MarkAndrew suggested the topic, and I did basically bring it up, so let's play the game.
Marvel yesterday released a "Best of the Fantastic Four" collection.
It contained the following stories: Fantastic Four #1, #39 - #40, #51, #100, #116, #176, #236 and #267; Fantastic Four (Vol. 3) #56 and #60; Marvel Fanfare #15; Marvel Two-In-One #50; and Marvel Knights 4 #4.
So that is fourteen issues worth.
So if YOU had to choose fourteen issues of Fantastic Four for your "Best of the Fantastic Four," which fourteen would you choose?
Since I would, to be honest, probably just pick all Lee/Kirby issues, and I would just be called a Silver Age-loving fuddy duddy, I am changing the rules to state that no more than HALF (in other words, seven) of the issues can be by Lee/Kirby.
Here are my picks:
Astonishingly enough, when I look at the Fantastic Four, I find myself choosing seven issues...in a ROW!!
Fanastic Four #45-51 - Except for perhaps the early Amazing Spider-Mans, I cannot recall a more amazing stretch of issues as these seven.
#45-47 introduce the Inhumans with an awesome story with amazing art.
#48-50 up the ante with the introduction of the Silver Surfer and Galactus (or, as Peter David joked, Frankie Avalon and God), and then...
#51 rocks us from a whole other angle, as we see the effect that heroism can have upon even the most foul-hearted of people.
#236 the first Byrne doom story. Definitely classic stuff.
#247 Byrne's "How does Latveria view Doom?" story. Really cool idea.
Annual #17 where Byrne used the Skrull cow plot. Funny stuff.
#258 the famous Doom "interlude."
#267 when Sue loses the baby.
#350 and 352 the Walt Simonson FF/Doom fight, including one of the trippiest Fantastic Four comics ever - #352, the "time travel" issue, where Doom and Reed battle throughout time AND the comic (so that the fight travels from, like, page 2, panel 4 to page 7, panel 3 to page 3, panel 1. Stuff like that. Very trippy.
Well, those are my picks.
How about you folk?
Marvel yesterday released a "Best of the Fantastic Four" collection.
It contained the following stories: Fantastic Four #1, #39 - #40, #51, #100, #116, #176, #236 and #267; Fantastic Four (Vol. 3) #56 and #60; Marvel Fanfare #15; Marvel Two-In-One #50; and Marvel Knights 4 #4.
So that is fourteen issues worth.
So if YOU had to choose fourteen issues of Fantastic Four for your "Best of the Fantastic Four," which fourteen would you choose?
Since I would, to be honest, probably just pick all Lee/Kirby issues, and I would just be called a Silver Age-loving fuddy duddy, I am changing the rules to state that no more than HALF (in other words, seven) of the issues can be by Lee/Kirby.
Here are my picks:
Astonishingly enough, when I look at the Fantastic Four, I find myself choosing seven issues...in a ROW!!
Fanastic Four #45-51 - Except for perhaps the early Amazing Spider-Mans, I cannot recall a more amazing stretch of issues as these seven.
#45-47 introduce the Inhumans with an awesome story with amazing art.
#48-50 up the ante with the introduction of the Silver Surfer and Galactus (or, as Peter David joked, Frankie Avalon and God), and then...
#51 rocks us from a whole other angle, as we see the effect that heroism can have upon even the most foul-hearted of people.
#236 the first Byrne doom story. Definitely classic stuff.
#247 Byrne's "How does Latveria view Doom?" story. Really cool idea.
Annual #17 where Byrne used the Skrull cow plot. Funny stuff.
#258 the famous Doom "interlude."
#267 when Sue loses the baby.
#350 and 352 the Walt Simonson FF/Doom fight, including one of the trippiest Fantastic Four comics ever - #352, the "time travel" issue, where Doom and Reed battle throughout time AND the comic (so that the fight travels from, like, page 2, panel 4 to page 7, panel 3 to page 3, panel 1. Stuff like that. Very trippy.
Well, those are my picks.
How about you folk?
posted by Brian Cronin at 5/12/2005 06:29:00 AM
3 Comments:
It's probably sacriligious to say so, but I'd include the Art Adams drawn and spectacularly self-referential three issue story where Spidey, Ghost Rider, The Hulk, and Wolverine become the new FF. Along with, you know, all that other rightfully classic stuff.
Here's what I'd pick:
Annual 3 - Reed & Sue get hitched
51 - My favorite Lee/Kirby story ever.
84-87 - Doom traps the FF in what is essentially The Village (though sadly, no #6)
258 - Probably the best Doom story ever.
267 - Sue loses the baby. Truly heartwrenching story.
296 - 25th anniversary story; also the only Mole Man story I've ever really liked.
334-336 - The FF vs. every loser villain in the Marvel Universe. Funny stuff.
510-511? - Don't remember the exact numbers, but the ones where they go to rescue Ben from the afterlife.
Benjamin, I think Marvel may have done a "Best of" in the past, as there WAS a collection before that DID have the Art Adams storyline in it.
I dunno if I feel right about including in a "best of the FF" collection a story that starred other heroes, but that definitely WAS a fun story!
Very nice art, as well.
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