News Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:02:56 CST Ilke

The Ones That Did It pt. 3
2007-03-07 15:22:58 written by Tom Brevoort

FANTASTIC FOUR #177 (Dec 1976) FANTASTIC FOUR #178 (Jan 1977)

I've written about this before, in the early days on this blog. How the local drugstore in my neighborhood had, for a time in the '70s, a big, replenishing bin of out-of-date Marvel comics, which I later determined had to have been sold to the chain "off the back of the truck" and been reported as pulped. Either way, it gave me a handy target when my interest in the Human Torch led me to seek out issues of FANTASTIC FOUR.

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Thirdly, the artwork was much cleaner and more engaging that what I'd encountered in the Marvel books up till this time. Partly that was due to the work of George Perez in the first two issues, but even more of the credit, I think, has to go to Joe Sinnott. Joe's just about my favorite inker ever, whose work always added a clean, sleek finish to any assignment he worked on. A fixture on FANTASTIC FOUR for something in the neighborhood of fifteen years, he kept the characters looking and feeling like themselves throughout, despite any changes of penciler along the way.