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-Assembling’ Avengers? Powerful and gripping, this remains, decades later, one of the best-remembered battles of the early Marvel Age! Our new copy of #25 is VG p £100, with light to moderate spine wear but unbroken deep purple cover colour, and the conclusion in #26 is FN+ p £180, with minimal corner creasing in the lower right cover, but otherwise unmarred.