You have to be patient listening to Kriby- Stan was just eloquent and warm. It's a shame they didn't both work together, but that was how the thing worked in the past (specialist).

Looking back, interesting how four people can go to space in the same ship, get exposed by the same cosmic rays but come back to earth with totally different powers.

In my opinion the best marvel artists of all time are Jack Kirby , Jim Steranko , Steve Ditko , John Romita , Bob Layton ,Barry Windsor - Smith , Paul Gulacy e George Perez . Art finalists : Joe Sinnot , Frank Giacoya , Jack Abel and Chic Stone .

You are a miracle. How old are you, if you don’t mind me asking? Even if you said “Between 30-39” THAT would suffice. I’m 57 btw- and am SO happy that your work exists. I did my MA in History on a specific facet of comics- so your work is right up my alley. Anyway: THANK YOU!!!

@16:50 - - 1st Issue Special WAS a try-out book - - you can see this in the original printed issues. Writer-artist-editor Kirby invited readers to respond to him from the letters page of issue #6, Dingbats.

I was happy to see Milestone back in 93 but they hit at the height of the comics speculator bubble when everyone was starting their own super hero universe. A shame that happened.

I can't wait for the continuation of this series! B.P.R.D. is my favorite comic series! Thanks so much for putting in the time and effort for these videos!

Those Lee/Kirby stories are amazing, but I'm quite fond of some of the stuff from 70s Fantastic Four -- Johnny's red suit, Sue temporarily being replaced by Medusa, Thundra's frequent appearances --- and, of course, Perez!!! Len Wein and George Perez produced some memorable stories. The Wolfman/Pollard era was decent, but Doug Moench was not well-suited for writing FF stories -- so glad Byrne took over.

I always wanted to know about the watchmen but never got around to it. I saw the Compact Watchmen book at Barnes and Noble picked it up and read. Good read!

Great video

I should mention that Kirby created a huge backlog of stories for Marvel before he left the first time. A few of these issues found in Chamber of Darkness #4 and #5. Tom Brevoort has an amazing recount of how Lee butchered Kirby's "The Monster" as this story being one of Kirby's most scathing comments against Stan. Not only was Kirby royally hacked about the edit job, but Jack salvaged the story. Kirby's original layouts absolutely beautiful.

This makes sense, that The FF and Thor became "clearinghouses" for new characters. The Inhumans, however, fit into Fantastic Four like a glove. And as I remember Black Bolt in Amazing Adventures, the superb story arc with Neal Adams made sense because Black Bolt was unable to carry a book on his own. I wish Tales of Asgard, though, was its own title and written as well as it was in Thor.

Jack the King Kirby was really good.

Great series, I have all those little volumes from Dark Horse (20 odd I think). Got the 6 film set, too bad they never finished it.

Just wanted to point out most of this run is collected in the epic collections out right now.

George Perez’s FF era remains my favourite.

Speaking as someone who was a teenager in the 70s, I'm afraid the highlight of the decade for me was Buscema drawing Medusa in that backless costume!

I learned quite a bit, thanks!💯📠

I grew up reading those FF books of the 1970s and the way they looked and acted during that decade will always be what I think of as the true Fantastic Four. And the artists on those books have always been the standard by which I judge other art styles (not just for the FF, but all superheroes) ...and that is a VERY high standard for others to meet. I might LIKE other artists work on the characters, but Buscema, Romita Sr. Perez, Buckler, Wilson, and Pollard - and, of course, Joe Sinnot! - forever determined what the "real" FF - the ones that had a contract with Marvel to print their adventures 😉 - looked like. I love those books and am grateful to the creators for making my childhood so much fun.

Loose, unorganized, terrible.

What’s the best Milestone title, though?

GREAT job on this documentary on Mile Stone Media,enjoyed it. Wish BET would do a documentary on Milestone also and do some an animated and tv shows series for-Icon,Static and Hardware. That would be SWEET. LOL. I notice you didn't mention why Milestone went out of business tho,would like to know. Also what do you think of the Rippaverse ??? Do you plan to do a documentary on the Rippaverse ??? No comic channels ever talk about the Rippaverse,at all.

John Buscema - he was the BEST !

Great video! Glad to see someone spotlighting the great Bill Everett and the true king of the seas. Both Everett and Namor deserve more respect and love. It's a shame what Marvel has done to Namor over the last 20 years. Not since John Byrne's run has Namor been given the treatment he deserves.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the period where Medusa took Sue's place on the team. She seemed a lot more useful in a fight than Sue had up to that point. My favorite FF artists from the '70s are John Buscema and George Perez. FF 197, where Reed regains his powers and fights the Red Ghost in space, is possibly my favorite FF issue of all time. FF 197-200 is a story I'd recommend, along with the Arkon storyline from 1975, FF 155-157, the Gorr/Galactus/Counter-Earth storyline, the Frightful Four/Brute storyline beginning in 177, and the issue where Galactus battles the Sphinx.

Stan Lee relied a lot on Jack Kirby's direction for creating and plotting comics but Kirby was only doing two comics by the end of the 60s, and Lee was writing other comics without him at the time. However, the "Thor" and "Fantastic Four" comics were important flagstone pieces of the company, and somebody was needed to replace Kirby who could draw comics at breakneck speed and help to create storylines. Lee was capable of scripting comics on his own though, with the right artists. He had already done the "Silver Surfer" with John Buscema. Buscema had a strong, realistic style with which he at least tried to be as dynamic and stunning as Kirby, but Joe Sinnott's inking kept the traditional feel on the comics Kirby had done alive, although other inkers did well over Kirby's drawing. Neal Adams's drawing on two "Thor" issues also suited them well with Sinnott inking them. Vince Collecta did ink John Buscema for one issue of "Thor" before Kirby's last issue of the comic book. Rich Buckler fused Kirby's and Buscema's styles to create a realistic and powerful effect, that again owed just as much to Sinnott. On other comics though, with different inkers, Buckler also revealed the influence of Steranko and Adams. Stan Lee did quite well I think doing the writing and plotting on the two comics that Kirby left, creating the Overmind character, but it can't be known how much Buscema contributed to creating the storylines. I first saw Perez's stuff on the "Inhumans" and wasn't really impressed, but once again, with Joe Sinnott inking his stuff on the "Fantastic Four", it looked very good, even though it lacked the realism and power of Buscema and Buckler.

Great job on this. Looking forward to the next video.

I need to go through your backlog of interviews. Also I love the videos you currently make.

My first issue had a Yellow Gorilla climbing the Baxter Building. On a separate note Rich Buckler is a massively underrated, especially when he's later at DC.

Sinnott is actually the worst thing that happens, Pollard, Perez, and even Byrne have their art destroyed. This happens on other books later under Tom Palmer. While both men are good artists, they would basically ignore the pencils, so they may as well have cut out the middle man and drawn it themselves. Pollard's art in Amazing Spider-Man with Marv Wolfman writing is still my all time Spidey run.

As both... an artist and fan of comic books, I just want to thank you for your narrative. I was just a seven yr old kid (back in the mid 60s) when I was introduced to Marvel comics by my older cousin (David). Of course I immediately fell in love with them. I just turned 67 yrs old... and though I enjoy drawing and creating my very own comic book characters just for pure enjoyment and fun, I never thought about actually self publishing a comic book until recently. Thanks for the inspiration!!

I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t just seen it. Pretty cool😮

"The fire singes and scorches! " -- A desperate para-demon, New Gods #7

I had just missed out on the first appearance of Galactus and the Silver Surfer when I discovered comic books. This was the time when the foundations of the DC/Marvel rivalry were established and it turned into a fun ride for me ever since. If anyone bothered to ask me why I fell in love with comic books I would simply tell them they allowed me to escape into those panels and forget about the real world for awhile.

Something about Kirby and the Fantastic Four that transcended so many different aspects of the 60s. They have a vision of humanity in a way that makes us expand our own thinking of our place in the universe.

I could have sworn I read that Johnny was replaced by HERBIE in the cartoon because the network was afraid of having a human character that burst into flames fearing that children would try setting themselves on fire!

The classic of my childhood was the Skrull-aging-ray/Sphinx/Galactus/Terrax/Spider-Man/Champions story.

I love this era of Marvel, and FF, grew up on that in the late 70s, and early 80s (the publication of these comics happened about 4-5 years later in my country, Sweden, than in the US, and publishing here didn't follow exactly the American order of publication, stories were thrown around in a weird time-line). The books were magic, the artwork and stories, and it was all just wow, like you mention in the beginning, some comics just get you hooked as a kid, and open up these worlds. My favorite artists will remain always; Rich Buckler and John Buscema. However, Joe Sinnott cannot be denied, his work is always immaculate. The Namor Stories with Magneto, illustrated by John Romita are so wonderful. What an artist! (Yeah Nixon was featured a lot, lol). John Byrne and Joe Sinnott as artists together (in the Galactus, Skrulls, Terrax and Sphinx issues) are so great. Thank you for this video. Great work.

I like this era a lot, especially the issues that bring back the Frightful Four with a new member -- THE BRUTE -- who is a counter-earth version of Reed. I like it how they got rid of the real Reed and the fake Reed posed as a member of the Fantastic Four. This era also saw the return of THE MOLECULE MAN which was awesome.

Nice work - glad to have found your channel! Man, I can remember buying that issue against Salem's Seven from the quarter bins in the mid-80s! I loved scouring the Marvel Universe issues for new characters to find, and those Salem's Seven designs really stuck out!

Jihn byrns time on the fantastic four was the true golden era of that line in my opinion

hey, what about Chic Stone? oh, he gets mentioned at the end.

It doesn't matter who was doing the book then because they were all better than the last ten years it has become unreadable and seeing the trailer for the new movie has been disappointing

The Thing will always be my favorite, I hated that everybody in Marvel got written to be stronger except for him (except for the spikey era).

Great vid. Great info. Well done! Thank you!

Nice work! Looking forward to your 80’s FF essay. I remember the whole Byrne era well, particularly how Sue was depicted as being the most powerful member of the FF in her fight with Doom, and (much less importantly) the “Wendy’s Friends” bit.

My introduction to marvel as a kid were the mid 80s around the 25th anniversary and issue 300. Reading back issues was an expensive hobby back then but thankfully recent years have made online editions very affordable. I've recently read all 416 issues of volume 1. Looking forward to the 80s summary. As much as the Thing is my favourite, the She Hulk era was pretty sweet.

I'll take a Colletta inked comic book any day over Ayers or Roussos. I wish Marvel would reissue FF #1-30 with someone keeping Kirby's layouts and reinking them.

FF 48-50 is all gas, no brakes. And the truly insane thing is the Galactus trilogy is wrapped up halfway through FF 50. Today, that trilogy would be a year-long event with a six month build up

I couldn't get into the Fantastic Four until John Byrne (and then going back and reading the Kirby issues, naturally). Everything in between can be passed.