Continuing the unmatched Lee/Kirby FANTASTIC FOUR run, this volume kicks off with the return of the infamous Sandman and the debut of Blastaar, the Living Bomb Burst
Then, Mr. Fantastic finds himself lost in the Negative Zone - and only Triton, the Inhuman, can save him! Next, it''s the debuts of Ronan the Accuser, Kree Sentry 456 and the Supreme Intelligence. If that wasn''t enough, the utopian scientists of the Enclave unleash the golden being known as Him (a.k.a. Adam Warlock) upon the world. And to take us out on a soaring note of nail-biting drama just after the FF come together under the announcement of Sue Richards'' pregnancy, the ever-lovin'', blue-eyed Thing tells his teammates to take a powder - leaving them to face the Mad Thinker and his awesome android on their own! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #61-71 and ANNUAL #5.
^Stan LeeMarvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four - Volume 7 (Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four (Quality)), Marvel. Amazon. ISBN 9780785150626 (revised Feb 2015)
^Lee, Stan; Kirby, Jack (2014). Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four - Volume 7, Marvel. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780785150626 (revised Nov 2023)
This Marvel Masterworks title contains some of the greatest issues of the Fantastic Four and demonstrates amply the brilliance of the achievements of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. These were the years when the FF fully blossomed into one of the great achievements of comic book history. By the way, it has just been reprinted (November 2007) and is now available so WHY IS IT NOT OFFERED FOR SALE BY AMAZON?
I got this at quite a discount from an alternate dealer because the variant cover is just not that impressive. Not sure why Marvel would use a variant cover that had a smaller reproduction of the artwork, but then their management is not known for always making good decisions. However, as bad as the variant cover looks, the print quality is on the better side for the Masterworks series. You have to be careful with the Masterwork series, because not all of them have been well printed, but this one is fine..
