*Marvel: Unusually, Fantastic Four #11 featured two stories rather than a book-lengther. In ‘A Visit With The Fantastic Four’, a change-of-pace ‘day in the life’ story, we hear more about how the FF are seen by the regular citizens of the Marvel Universe at large, courtesy of their fan mail – brought to them by mailman Willie Lumpkin, later portrayed on the big screen by Smilin’ Stan Lee himself! The second story was the premiere of the perplexing person from Poppup, as the Impossible Man, shape-shifting mischief-maker from outer space, plagued Marvel’s First Family for the first of what were to be many, many occasions. This is one of the more off-beat and charming issues of the FF’s early run, demonstrating that Stan & Jack were as at home with warmth and whimsy as they were with cosmic drama. A FN copy, it has light creasing around the spine area, and vestigial ‘Marvel Chipping’ at cover’s right edge, but is a firm, clean copy with deep cover colour.
PICTURED: FANTASTIC FOUR #11 FN p £275