KirbyFan4ever wrote:
The Surfer we saw in FF #48 - 77 WAS true to Kirby's concept of the character, it's only AFTER Stan's origin in SS #1 that we get a 180 degree change in who this character is.

Absolutely true. Anyone who's read (or re-read) the stories in the order they were published would be PAINFULLY aware of this. When you go from all the stories written before SS #1, and then read SS #1, there is a SHOCKING disconnect. It's like going from a Pre-CRISIS to Post-CRISIS version of some DC character. Nothing in the earlier stories even remotely suggests what Stan wrote in SS #1, and even within the SS series there is a serious conflict of logic, internally. If ever a comic-book writer desperately NEEDED an "editor", it was Stan.


It you want more detail, look up my "60's Marvel Re-Reading Project" thread.