https://gobacktothepast.com/fabulous-find-fantastic-four-big-little-book/ Your Source for Everything Pop Culture Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://gobacktothepast.com/fabulous-find-fantastic-four-big-little-book/#comment-3720 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:15:29 +0000 https://gobacktothepast.com/?p=24963#comment-3720 Shar, Thanks for your knowledgeable addition to my post! It’s always great to hear from fellow Marvel and comic book fans, especially for these little known collectibles. I love this “weird” stuff almost as much as I love those Silver Age comics! – greg

]]> https://gobacktothepast.com/fabulous-find-fantastic-four-big-little-book/#comment-3716 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:28:44 +0000 https://gobacktothepast.com/?p=24963#comment-3716 I bought this book from eBay a couple of years ago and there’s a ton of Kirby art throughout this book (slightly modified by Trimpe and John Verpooten). For example the Reed and Sue “He Intends To Destroy Us” image you display is from Fantastic Four #49.
It’s interesting that many (though certainly not all ) of the lifts are from issues published in 1968, such as #74, #77 (as you noted) and #78. Marvel no doubt wanted the book to be in the house style (i.e. Kirby/Sinnott style) so Trimpe–who’d started in production before turning to penciling full-time– and Verpooten was Marvel’s production manager, so they no doubt had access to any pages/art they wanted in their quest to create a Kirby-Sinnott facsimile.

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