American Update: Fantastic Four #25 & #26 – Definitive Hulk/Thing Clash, Guest-Starring the Avengers
*Marvel: A personal favourite from the distant childhoods of the 30th C. team, these classic issues pit the Green Goliath against Marvel’s First Family in a long-promised but oft-deferred fight to the finish. When three of the Four rapidly succumb to the Hulk’s irresistible force, it falls to the Thing, outclassed despite his own formidable strength, to hold the line in an epic, desperate struggle to protect the city. And when the combined powers of the FF fail, who better to step up to help out than the Hulk’s former teammates, the ever-Assemblin’ Avengers? Powerful and gripping, this remains, decades later, one of the best-remembered battles of the early Marvel Age!
PICTURED: FANTASTIC FOUR
#25 GD/VG p £225 A pence printed copy. Rich colour cover with no markings. Staples firm at spine; centrefold loose. Decent pages. Moderate edge and handling wear and corner blunting. Two colour-breaking cover creases, both fairly faint: one across bottom right edge diagonally, one narrow from top to about a third of the way down, culminating in a small edge nick.
#26 VG+ £160 Cents copy with good colour and only slight dinginess to the white background. Good staples and nice pages. Minor edge and handling wear. A small biro figure ‘5’ below the logo. SOLD