What If #11 Appreciation Thread. 0

[kav]

This classic book featuring great kirby art and stan lee story where the bullpen becomes the FF should be more than a $5 book!  One of my all time favorites!

[kav]

[jjonahjameson11]

I like the concept, but the art is crude and hideous.

[Ken Aldred]

Interesting enough idea.

Edited September 9, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[southern cross]

I like the art.

Is that a mother box?

Edited September 9, 2021 by southern cross

[iggy]

$5 where? Comixology?

[LowGradeBronze]

On 9/9/2021 at 3:01 PM, jjonahjameson11 said:

I like the concept, but the art is crude and hideous.

It's classic JK circa 1978, which took some getting used to at the time, but now 40 years on I really like. The art stayed the same but tastes change!

[jjonahjameson11]

On 9/9/2021 at 11:48 AM, LowGradeBronze said:

It's classic JK circa 1978, which took some getting used to at the time, but now 40 years on I really like. The art stayed the same but tastes change!

Most folks consider classic JK to be late 50's - late 60's, and I agree with them.  I am not a Kirby fan by any stretch of the imagination, but by the time he did this issue of What If?, he was well past his prime...and it shows!

[Chaykin Stevens]

On 9/9/2021 at 6:58 AM, kav said:

This classic book featuring great kirby art and stan lee story where the bullpen becomes the FF should be more than a $5 book!

Wasn't it written by Kirby not Lee?

[kav]

On 9/9/2021 at 1:40 PM, Chaykin Stevens said:

Wasn't it written by Kirby not Lee?

Omg even more epic thx!  And I like kirby's later work of this period it had a carefree energy.

[kav]

On 9/9/2021 at 8:05 AM, southern cross said:

I like the art.

Is that a mother box?

I havent read it in a while I think it was some contraption someone used to send the bullpen into the comic world or something.

 

On 9/9/2021 at 8:37 AM, iggy said:

$5 where? Comixology?

 

ebay

[iggy]

I was just making fun of your cover scan- What If... there was a direct distribution system in 1978. 

[kav]

Ps when have the Torch's fireballs ever stopped anyone ever?

[poto555]

Classic book. Loved the concept!

[southern cross]

 

On 9/9/2021 at 5:08 PM, kav said:

Ps when have the Torch's fireballs ever stopped anyone ever?

He needs to fight Dungeons and Dragons Trolls, he'd pwned then 👍

[kav]

On 9/9/2021 at 10:14 PM, southern cross said:

 

He needs to fight Dungeons and Dragons Trolls, he'd pwned then 👍

Yep.  Then all their base are belong to them.

[Arkham]

On 9/10/2021 at 3:16 PM, kav said:

Yep.  Then all their base are belong to them.

Somebody set up us the bomb!

 

 

Man, that brought the memories flooding back! 

Edited September 10, 2021 by Arkham

[Ken Aldred]

On 9/10/2021 at 1:08 AM, kav said:

Ps when have the Torch's fireballs ever stopped anyone ever?

 

On 9/10/2021 at 6:14 AM, southern cross said:

 

He needs to fight Dungeons and Dragons Trolls, he'd pwned then 👍

Yup. It would need to be a Frost Troll.

In D and D, or Elder Scrolls or any such RPG, you use the opposite elemental magic attack, fire attack vs frost character.

The monster’s clearly a Fire Troll, so the Torch will get nowhere. He’s also lucky it isn’t one from Dark Souls, otherwise in one hit the team would become the Fantastic Three. 

[Ken Aldred]

On 9/9/2021 at 4:48 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

It's classic JK circa 1978, which took some getting used to at the time, but now 40 years on I really like. The art stayed the same but tastes change!

I’ve grown to really like Kirby’s later Bronze Age work.  There’s something very entertaining about his unrestrained, over-the-top storylines and dialogue back at Marvel. No subtlety whatsoever.

Edited September 10, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[Chaykin Stevens]

Dave Stevens and Scott Shaw are said to have inked some secondary figures and backgrounds.  Presumably this would have been in Bill Wray's portion of the issue, as Stevens worked alongside Wray on Star Wars #6 and What If #16.  Can anyone spot the Kirby/Stevens elements?