Reader Jeff Daugherty of Princeton, Kentucky, notes that many of the famed Silver Age characters from the House of Ideas debuted on the covers of Atlas Comics (Marvel's forerunner):
Jeff writes that he's been collecting comics since the mid-1960s. Great post!
Friday, October 01, 2010
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Wow ... I have to say that Strange Tales #79 looks so much like Fantastic Four #1 it's uncanny ... no it's FANTASTIC! ;)
Great post!
You know, I've always seen these listed in the price guides with the "prototype" moniker, but I don't know that I've ever actually taken the time to look up the covers. Thanks for posting them.
And Tales 13 looks like a proto Iron Man suit..
The Tales of Suspense Elektro has more in common with the Golden Age robot Electro than with the Spider-Man villain, so in this case it is recycling rather than presaging anything.
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