tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post2454012722542367430..comments2024-03-28T15:52:11.681+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: Fantastic Four #7. Kurrgo and Planet X.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-70677116820395002792011-12-14T18:59:46.018+00:002011-12-14T18:59:46.018+00:00I'm with Southfolkman; this one seems like Atl...I'm with Southfolkman; this one seems like Atlas monster-mania with the FF pasted in. Note that Kurrgo's name follows the usual Atlas monster pattern with the one repeated letter.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060349239296193385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-48491106610941098752011-12-13T14:56:32.214+00:002011-12-13T14:56:32.214+00:00If only to show that it takes all sorts, I never r...If only to show that it takes all sorts, I never rated this tale too highly. For me, it relied too heavily on the pre-Marvel Age fantasy stuff knocked out by Lee, Ditko & Kirby. There are great moments in the early part of the tale of course, but once the main story gets going it feels like 'Planet X' (surely a dubious moniker, even back then?) could have been sorted by just about any super-intelligent space-travelling scientist of the day. And there were a few knocking about in those Atlas yarns.<br /><br />Admittedly that's a pretty churlish view, given the revolution that Marvel brought about. But there, Now I've said it.<br /><br />SouthfolkmanSouthfolkmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-37414013832610993302011-12-09T20:53:44.373+00:002011-12-09T20:53:44.373+00:00You definitely got your money's worth with Lee...You definitely got your money's worth with Lee's, Kirby's and Ditko's comics of the early 60's especially '66 and '67. They crammed so much into those 22 pages it might take one or two sittings to finish a book and all for 12 cents. Now you can spend, what, about $4 for a comic and finish it in about 5 minutes.bliss_infintehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433733609487959653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-38352758584800502042011-12-09T20:49:53.758+00:002011-12-09T20:49:53.758+00:00One thing that strikes me is that the robot's ...One thing that strikes me is that the robot's design seems to change in every panel it appears in.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-28923147240328253112011-12-09T20:15:42.687+00:002011-12-09T20:15:42.687+00:00This has always been one of my fave FF tales, from...This has always been one of my fave FF tales, from when I first read it in Wham!, then Marvel Collectors' Item Classics, Then Marvel Annual 1973 (in '72) and then in The Mighty World of Marvel. In its first printing, in the last panel, Reed says 'there was no reducing gas' instead of 'enlarging gas' - a mistake which was rectified in subsequent printings. However, in the recent softcover FF Masterworks Vol 1, the mistake was deliberately left uncorrected.<br /><br />Incidentally, in FF #11, Kurrgo's ship is mis-identified as a Skrull ship (from FF #2).Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.com