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Stan, Jack, and Steve - The 1960's (1962) Jack Kirby creates the Marvel Universe!
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Despite the fact that Kirby had already done a character this month with an Iron Mask (and they even colored differently on the cover from the interior - green) in Tales of Suspense #31... Doctor Doom makes his first appearance in the Fantastic Four. 

TOS #31 went onsite April 10th... FF #5 went on sale the same day, and the job numbers were apart (V-714 to V-735), but not that far...

Did the Editor (Stan) not notice this?

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ON NEWSSTANDS APRIL 1962

For Fantastic Four #5 - My thoughts on this issue... my first exposure to this story was around 1981 in one of the FF Pocket Book collections, and... I remember being underwhelmed by it. Of course, this is 20 years of advanced comic book storytelling having occurred, BUT...

I remember 1974/75 reading FF #6 in the Marvel Treasury Edition and liking it a great deal... Doom and Subby teamed up... next issue I'll show you WHY I think I liked it so much better...

Anyway, back to #5... reading it again for the first time in many years, what I DO remember liking about it (now and then) was the short origin of Doom (leaving plenty of room to expand on many years later), Johnny reading a copy of Hulk #1 (man, there was no shortage of promotion for that book!), and Sue actually being the one to save the day!

The whole sequence almost seems like Kirby dialogue... Stan didn't write females like this, he was very sexist in that way - it was always "Oh Reed! I was so scared!" as she was doing something heroic... I have a feeling that's most definitely Lee changing Kirby's dialogue in that last panel though...

I could nit pick it for the things I DON'T like, but... it basically comes down to... when Stan was interfering with the stories, the science always seemed to be... unrealistic, whereas Kirby researched and read about science constantly. As Stan would be less and less involved in the book later on, spending much of his time out of the office, leaving Kirby to write more and more on his own, the science and stories got soooo much better. 

I'm sure this was a HUGE book when it came out. It's still cool as hell - its the first Dr. Doom! One of the greatest villains in the history of the Marvel Universe. And as a first appearance in 1962, it's important to the growth of the title and would eventually be expanded upon. Now they just have to keep from over working Kirby, so he CAN expand upon it...

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ON NEWSSTANDS APRIL 1962

Meanwhile over at DC... the Atom #1 comes out this month. As DC has a whole new group of heroes in their own books...

Notice the credit box (No, Stan Lee didn't invent that!) showing Story By Gardner Fox and Art By Gil Kane (pencils) and Murphy Anderson (inks). What a team THAT is!

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ON NEWSSTANDS MAY 1962

For May, Marvel would release 9 titles to the newsstand (For 14 out of 16 months now they've put out more than the rumored 8 titles, and one of the months they didn't was when they shut down for the month). They now have 53 in 5 months (10.6 a month). 

Stan Lee would have at least one story in all 9. 

The obvious missing book for the month is Amazing Adult Fantasy. 

 

Gunsmoke Western #71 - 1 story each with Jack Keller, Jack Kirby, Don Heck, and Paul Reinman.

Incredible Hulk #2 - with Jack Kirby.

Journey Into Mystery #82 - 1 story with Steve Ditko.

Love Romances #100 -  4 stories with Jack Kirby.

Patsy & Hedy #83  -  with Al Hartley art.

Rawhide Kid #29 - 3 with Kirby, one with D. Ayers. 

Strange Tales #99 - 1 story with Steve Ditko.

Tales of Suspense #32 - 1 story with Steve Ditko.

Tales to Astonish #34 - 1 story with Steve Ditko.

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ON NEWSSTANDS MAY 1962

For Gunsmoke Western #71, Jack Kirby does the cover and pencils a story, all inked by D. Ayers. It is signed 'Kirby Ayers' in two small boxes by D. Ayers and by Stan Lee in the upper right corner. The cover is also signed 'Kirby Ayers' in two small boxes (I mean, really small) by D. Ayers. 

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ON NEWSSTANDS MAY 1962

For Journey Into Mystery #82, Jack Kirby does the cover (inked by D. Ayers) and writes and pencils a story, inked by Paul Reinman. The cover is signed 'Kirby Ayers' in two small boxes (I mean, really small) by D. Ayers. The interior story is NOT signed by anyone. 

In no way do I think Jack Kirby wrote Spider-man the way it was eventually created. I do want to point out that a month before it was written he DID do this story about an arachnid that was hit with radiation in a science lab. 

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ON NEWSSTANDS MAY 1962

For Tales of Suspense #32, Jack Kirby does the cover and writes and pencils TWO stories, all inked by D. Ayers. The cover and both stories are signed 'Kirby Ayers' in two small boxes (I mean, really small) by D. Ayers. 

Yet another pre-X-Men 'mutant' story... 

Story ONE:

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