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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780785111849
ISBN: 0785111840
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2004-01
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Studio: Marvel Comics
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Amazon.com Review:
In the early 1960s, the Fantastic Four billed itself as "the world's greatest comics magazine," and issues 41-50, collected here in the FF's fifth volume in the Marvel Masterworks series, actually live up to that lofty claim. A trademark of the Stan Lee-Jack Kirby years was their epic sweep, and these 10 issues encompass three different story arcs that are themselves connected. Issues 41-43 feature the Frightful Four (the Wizard, the Sandman, the Trapster, and Madam Medusa) in an elaborate plot to brainwash the Thing into turning on his compatriots, including a battle with Reed Richards in the story memorably entitled "To Save You, Why Must I Kill You?" There's a timeout for a light-hearted break in Fantastic Four Annual no. 3, the marriage of Sue and Reed, in which the most dizzying array of supervillains and superheroes--almost everyone in the Marvel Universe--drops in for a page or even a panel in order to stop or save the wedding. When Medusa returns in issue 44, she's not simply a member of a supervillain group, but one of the Inhumans, super-powered beings led by the mighty Black Bolt, and the FF must follow them to the Great Refuge. If all that's not momentous enough, enter the most noble and tragic character of all, the Silver Surfer, the herald for the almighty Galactus, who consumes planets not because he's evil, but because he must in order to survive. In a 10-issue span, it's hard to imagine a similar wave of classic characters and mind-bending concepts, and yet Lee and Kirby also take the time to make their characters achingly human. Simply put, comics never got better than this, and this Masterworks edition reprints every issue in its full-color glory. --David Horiuchi
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This Masterworks is been redone with a remastered look so it will be released later this year I hear. Anyone willing to pay the greedy guys selling it for 4 times its worth, feel free to and then buy the better printed version later for $49.95 or lower. See what this sloppy printed version gets you then. It's certainly well written and one of Lee's best compilations. But they ruined Jacks artwork and thats why its a ripoff. Buyer beware !!!!
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Lee and Kirby reach the peak of their FF run and will stay there for a while. This volume has the Galactus trilogy and Kirby's introduction of the Silver Surfer. However they did it, Lee and Kirby created a new type of comic book. This, along with Ditko's Spiderman trilogy and Romita's Green Goblin finale, is the best of that era.
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I was terribly disappointed with the printing of this book. Jack Kirby's wonderful art was spoiled by bad scanning. I suggest you don't by this book without seeing it.
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"Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four, Volume 5" is the highpoint in the history of the title that has proclaimed itself to be "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine" for the simple reason that once you face down "God," which is basically what the F.F. does when it tackles Galactus, it is all down hill from there. Volume 6 is very good and represents the point where Jack Kirby's artwork was at its peak, but this volume, which collects issues #41-50 plus Annual #3 where Reed Richards and Sue Storm get ... Read More
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