Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:38:03 PM
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>>149043486 (OP)
I'd take sincere cornball dialogue over cynical self aware quips any day of the week
>>149043486 (OP)
Kirby was a better writer than Lee
Finally finished the Kirby run earlier this year. First half is peak House of Ideas and then after Galactus's debut and This Man This Monster it starts dragging so hard.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 5:44:39 PM
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>>149044082
There's like 3 separate Star Trek ripoffs within the space of a few issues as you close in on #100. It's rough.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:45:49 PM
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Been ages since I read FF but I think the dialogue was pretty good for a superhero comic in the early 60's. If you compared it to other cape books coming out at the time it would probably stand out more.
Even if Stan Lee only had like a handful of voices he wrote in, I think it worked for Fantastic Four where The Thing, Mr. Fantastic, and Human Torch all sounded different. I haven't read that much Silver Age DC but I feel like there was less variety in, say, Justice League. I also think Silver Age dialogue works better if you aren't internally shouting every sentence and just read the exclamation points as periods, until you reach a line where they're DEFINITELY yelling somehing with bold text and extra punctuation.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:35:42 PM
No.149046241
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>>149044082
It dragged before and after that.
>>149043486 (OP)
>Together for the first time
Were there comics before this about individual members of the Fantastic Four?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:15:05 PM
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>>149047193
That's really weird phrasing then. It should be 'appearing for the first time.'
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:15:51 PM
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>>149047190
There were human torch comics, I don’t think it was Johnny storm though
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:16:31 AM
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>>149043754
Yes, just like Ditko! Stan literally ruined the comics, Jack and Steve just needed him as an editor. Sometimes
