Reaky wrote:
Well, my FF #10 dropped through my letterbox this morning, and a delight it is too. No, it's not the peak of Lee/Kirby, but it's still Lee/Kirby, which means it outranks nearly all mainstream Bronze Age Marvel superheroics (plus, I have a soft spot for the nonsensical Moon Landing story in issue 98).

Extras are generous, with seven text pieces, (nearly all) the surviving pencils of issue 108 and the reconstruction of that story. I was a little taken aback, though, by Stan's claim in his introduction that the transition from Kirby to Romita in issue 103 would be noticed only by the most "sharp-eyed". Was this just "Doesn't bother me" bluster at the departure of his most significant collaborator, like an embittered divorcé, or did Stan really have so little regard for his artists, seeing them more as plot generators than draughtsmen?
That's more like it!