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Sep 18 08 4:39 PM
Golden Age
Lockjaw wrote: Don't agree that Kirby was 'phoning it in' Firstly he was mandated by Marvel to do single issue stories from 94-101. It's hard to do very compelling stories as single issues at that point in FFs history. Romita Sr. & Buscema weren't forced to do single issue stories (I don't think there were ANY from 103 to 125.) Next Kirby wasn't going to create any new characters for Marvel during that late stage in his tenure, so the villains from that era were Stan Lee ideas. Monocle, 'Creature', android versions of their claasic foes from issue 100, the Maggia etc. In FF 105-116 you get two issues involving 'Rambows' creature, a negative zone arc, a ,Thing becomes human' arc, a classic Thing vs Hulk battle (that no doubt would be just as classic if Kirby had drawn it), and the 'Overmind epic' ( which arguably is just a Galactus rehash with the 'Dr Doom as an member twist. I'm not saying the last Kirby volume was better--only that other factors made it fairly weak not having to do with 'phoning it in.'
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