Fantastic Four #169 (Pt 9) Invisible Woman and Fantastic Four #70--Plus Marvel's Greatest Comics!

1968: Fantastic Four #70  Jack Kirby
 with touch-ups on Sue by John Romita Sr. 

1976: Fantastic Four #169  Rich Buckler

John Romita Sr. redrew Sue's hips and legs on 1968's Fantastic Four #70 cover. Jack Kirby's original drawing of Sue is shown on the cover of 1974's Marvel's Greatest Comics #53. 

1974: Marvel's Greatest Comics #53 
Just Jack!
Kirby's cover 

                                                                 with an unaltered Sue

Fantastic Four #168 (Pt 2) Nod To A Classic Cover

Top: Fantastic Four #3 (1963) Jack Kirby
Bottom: Fantastic Four #168 (1976) Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #168 (Pt 1) Reed Richards and Johnny Storm

1976: Fantastic Four #168  Rich Buckler

1967: Fantastic Four #60 Jack Kirby

1976: Fantastic Four #168

Fantastic Four #157 (Pt 1) Fantastic Four #45

Oh, I know I've posted this elsewhere before--but I just get such a kick out of it! 

1965: Fantastic Four #45 - Kirby                1975: Fantastic Four #157 - Buckler

Here's the panel on the page in Fantastic Four #157.

1975: Fantastic Four #157

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1965: Fantastic Four #45 cover

Fantastic Four #153 (Pt 32) Ben Grimm Reaches Out

Fantastic Four #153 (1974) Buckler

Fantastic Four #32 (1964) Kirby

Note that #153's Reed and Thundra are positioned like  #32's Sue and Johnny.

The full Kirby cover, inks by Chic Stone:

Fantastic Four #32 cover 

Kirby and Tuska: Fantastic Four #66 and Iron Man #49

1967: Fantastic Four #66 - Jack Kirby              1972: Iron Man #49- George Tuska

The images in context 

1967: Fantastic Four #66                                        1972: Page 4 splash from Iron Man #49

More Kirby and Tuska here and here.

Captain America--Standing Tall and Proud!

Cap speaks no evil...

July 1967:  Tales of Suspense #91/Captain America  - Gil Kane

...sees no evil...

Nov. 1968: Captain America #107 - Jack Kirby

...and hears no evil 😉

June 1973: Captain America #162 - Jim Starlin

Bonus!

Nov. 1972: Captain America #155 - Sal Buscema

Now for a slightly off-kilter stance

Nov. 1977: Captain America #215 - Gil Kane once again

This looks a bit painful😨

Dec. 1964: Tales of Suspense #60/Captain America - Jack Kirby

Trimpe and Kirby (Pt 14) Incredible Hulk #122 and Fantastic Four #87 - Crystal Blue Persuasion 😊

Dec. 1969: Hulk #122 Herb Trimpe

June 1969:
Fantastic Four #87 Kirby
         

The Kirby cover.

Jack Kirby & Joe Sinnott
Fantastic Four #87

Trimpe and Kirby (Pt 1) Incredible Hulk #122 and Fantastic Four #89

The late great Herb Trimpe's artwork was often called "Kirbyesque" so here we'll take a look at Trimpe's work on Hulk #122 and #123, which featured the Fantastic Four as guest stars. I never read Hulk back then but I was an FF fan, so for me it's fun to see these FF recalls. 

Trimpe was not used to drawing the FF and it was important to keep such well-known characters on model. It's pretty apparent Trimpe used several then-recent Fantastic Four issues, chiefly #83-#89, for inspiration/reference.These issues were probably on hand in the Marvel offices--remember, Trimpe was part of the Marvel production staff. 

Anyway, as we'll see in the next few posts Trimpe took some Kirby poses but added his own distinctive style to them. All in all, some great work by Mr. T!

Let's start with these covers, Fantastic Four #89 and Hulk #122. Both issues are from 1969: FF #89 was published in May 1969, around the time when Hulk #122 was being created, given a 4 month production lead time. Sure, there's Reed's fist in the forefront, but let's face it, that's a pretty common--and expected--Reed shot. Here I'm more interested in Sue and Crystal. 

Aug. 1969: Fantastic Four #89  Jack Kirby                            Dec. 1969: Incredible Hulk #122 Herb Trimpe                 

A closer look at the two covers: 

Here's a close-up of Sue and Crystal on the FF #89 cover...

...and on the Hulk #122 cover.

Fantastic Four Annual #22 Human Torch Attacks!

Classic Torch pose.  In the "reminds me of" category:

1967: Fantastic Four #69                            1989: Fantastic Four Annual #22 

1967: Fantastic Four #69 Kirby

1989: Fantastic Four Annual #22 Ron Frenz

Plus:

Per the comment by "Unknown", compare Cap to the cover of Tales of Suspense #84!

St. Patty's Day Special! It Ain't Easy Being Green--Just Ask Polaris and Phoenix

1968: X-Men #50    Jim Steranko

1976:  X-Men  #101   Dave Cockrum

More Cockrum X-Men here!

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 60) Iron Man, Iron Man...

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1                 1964: Avengers #5          
    Buckler                                                     Kirby            

The Iron Man images in context: 

1974: Giant-Size Avengers #1 Buckler

1964: Avengers #5 Kirby

Fantastic Four #148 (Pt 36) Thor, Hercules, Ben and Sandman

1974: Fantastic Four #148  Rich Buckler

1965: Journey Into Mystery Annual #1  Jack Kirby

The Thor-Hercules image is from the Kirby JiM Annual #1 cover, below. And it could be that the smaller-sized JiM Annual #1 house ad (seen in FF #42 and #43, for example) was used as the foundation for the FF #148 Thing-Sandman image.

Journey Into Mystery Annual #1

Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (Pt 26) Thing and Hercules

 

1966: Thor #128  Jack Kirby

1974: Giant-Size Super-Stars #1  Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #144 (Pt 15) Classic Thing Stance

Fantastic Four 57

Fantastic Four 144 (1974) Buckler

Ben is from Kirby's Fantastic Four #57 cover. 

Fantastic Four #57 (1967) Jack Kirby

More on this Fantastic Four #144 panel here.  

Fantastic Four #128 (Pt 2) Reed's Stance

Fantastic Four 128 (1972) Buscema

Fantastic Four 11 (1963) Kirby

Fantastic Four #127 (Pt 1) Statuesque Kala, Queen of the Netherworld

Fantastic Four #127 (1972) John Buscema

Tales of Suspense #43 (1963) Jack Kirby

Romeo Tanghal's "queen for a day" (and castle) for DC in 1977.

Weird War Tales #57 (1977) Romeo Tanghal

Psst: check out Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown #6 from 1959.  ;)

Fantastic Four #117 (Pt 3) Sue and Reed--Plus Ben

Was Buscema inspired by Kirby here? Maybe, maybe not. But his positioning of Reed and Sue reminds me of the cover of FF #41.

Fantastic Four 117 (1971) Buscema                            Fantastic Four 41 (1965) Kirby

And yeah, I know you're already familiar with this #41 Reed 'n' Sue image; after all not too long ago we saw Buckler use it as a basis for Captain America and Mantis in 1974's Giant-Size Avengers #1, remember? ;).

The Kirby cover, Fantastic Four #41 (1965)

Plus! Now, take a look at the panel preceding the Reed 'n' Sue panel in #117: 

That's right, it's big, broad-backed Ben -- same camera angle/POV as Ben on the aforementioned FF #41 cover!  ;)