It Was 50 Years Ago Today...
By
BatFan,
Posted on: 2011-08-08 13:59 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
U2's The Edge was born 50 years ago today as well.
(Sometimes, I wish there could be a Dev thumbs up button for quality posts, because you pretty much nailed it.) -- Ghost Falcon
Happy Birthday to the FF and The Edge!
Confirmed altaholic with 70+ alts in coh and cov...yes i know thats alot! Playing coh since beta test phase.
It's celebratin' time!
Linda Carter was a student nurse?
Sure, it's the fiftieth anniversary of this*:
But it's also the fifty-first anniversary of this:
That's right, same superhero team concept, same giant monster attack, same basic composition ... except five heroes on the cover.
* Stan and Jack were still making the transition from "giant monster attack".
"The Creature from Krogarr" was nothing but a thinly-veiled rip-off of Harlan Ellison's far superior short story, "Clean-Up on Aisle 8: The Monster from the A&P."
(Sometimes, I wish there could be a Dev thumbs up button for quality posts, because you pretty much nailed it.) -- Ghost Falcon
"A brilliant scientist, his best friend, the woman he loves, and her fiery tempered kid brother. Together they braved the unknown dangers of outer space and were transformed by cosmic rays into something more than merely human. Mister Fantastic! The Thing! The Invisible Girl! The Human Torch! Now they are the Fantastic Four and the world will never again be the same!"
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I read both of those when they came out. Man I'm old.
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Sure, it's the fiftieth anniversary of this*:
But it's also the fifty-first anniversary of this: That's right, same superhero team concept, same giant monster attack, same basic composition ... except five heroes on the cover. * Stan and Jack were still making the transition from "giant monster attack". |
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But to have read these straight off the newsstand when you were young, that's, well, fantastic.|
Originally Posted by Optimus_Dex
I read both of those when they came out. Man I'm old.
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Incidentally, here's a retrospective of the FF's origin story as reworked from the beginning (highlights include several versions by Jack Kirby and John Byrne).
Ahhh....the birthdate of 'The Marvel Age'...gotta love it!
Can't wait until I get my John Byrne Fantastic Four omnibus this Fall.
Go Team Venture!
...that an odd new comic appeared on the stands. Sandwiched between "Kid Colt, Outlaw," "Linda Carter, Student Nurse," and the monster books "Tales To Astonish," and "Tales of Suspense" (headlining, respectively, 'The Creature From Krogarr' and 'The Creature From the Black Bog') was a tale of four adventurers who gained strange abilities after their failed attempt to "beat the Commies into space!".
In a few years the cowboy and the nurse would be gone. The tales of Creatures From (fill in the blank) would be replaced by tales of a man in an iron suit, and an incredibly angry hulk. And the four adventurers would revolutionize the way comic book stories were told.
Happy 50th Birthday, Fantastic Four!