Can the board help me with early FF cover appearances?

[Drummy]

Hey guys and dolls -

 

As a big FF fan, along with many others here, I am looking into their cover appearances in other Marvel titles. Apart from some Strange Tales 106 (?) and 108, along with ASM #1, can anyone throw down a list of FF cover appearances outside their own title from 1961-1967? Even one or two might be useful!

 

Scans also welcome. Thanks a bundle.

 

Dan

 

ps did I just say "Thanks a bundle"?

[mr_highgrade]

Here ya go

[murph0]

Also,

STT 118, DD 1, and Hulk 122. Do they have to appear on the cover? If they appear in the book but just not in the cover, are you lookin for those too?

 

Brian

[Aman619]

pssstt - - Murph, just read the title of the thread...

[murph0]

I meant to ask whether or not ALL the FF had to appear on the cover. Sorry

 

Brian

[Aces]

Good point.

 

Do all 4 have to appear?

 

If just one then the Torch was around a lot in Spider-man and Strange Tales.

 

2 out of 4?

Then the Thing and the Torch teamed up a lot in the later Stange Tales issues just before Nick Fury.

[Aman619]

judging by the examples in his question, I think he wants only tose crosssovers with ALL 4 on the covers. I actually cant think of any offhand... seems the other heroes always came over to THEIR house for playdates in the 60s

[deathlok]

[deathlok]

[murph0]

I stole some scans from auctions so you could see the covers..

STT 118 taken from this auction

 

[murph0]

And here is Hulk 122, taken from this auction ... I'm assuming you know what DD 1 looks like

 

[Aces]

As a side note:

 

Did you know that all 4 members of the FF appeared on every cover of the Fantastic Four until issue 51?

No Torch on 51!

This is not counting the logo above the price.

 

On 46 (Black Bolt) and 50 (Surfer) they appeared as heads only (I always disliked covers like that).

 

 

[deathlok]

That hulk 122 is from 1969, which is beyond the range he wanted.

[uclapeterg]

That's very interesting!!!! Do you know why that was the case???

[Aces]

I don't know.

I guess they figured everyone had a favorite member of the FF.

They didn't want anyone to not buy an issue because if they didn't see that member on the cover they might assume that member wasn't in the inside story?

 

Did that statement make sense? It's late here and I'm sleepy.

[uclapeterg]

Yea, it did. Hope you got some sleep!

[Drummy]

Thanks for the info and the pics!

 

It has always surprised me that the FF weren't featured on more covers outside their own title, but maybe there were too many of them to fit in easily. ASM #1, Strange Tales #106 and #108, and some of the cheesier reprint issues seem to be the major examples.

 

And yes, I am looking for the entire team represented, from '61-'67. There don't seem to be that many.

 

Dan