Fantastic Four #150 (Part 23) Mad Max's Mad Grins

1969: Fantastic Four #82 Kirby

1974: Fantastic Four #150 Buckler

Fantastic Four #150 (Pt 19) Crystal and Lockjaw

Fantastic Four #150 (1974) Rich Buckler

                    

Fantastic Four #82 (1969) Jack Kirby

Fantastic Four #153 (Pt 18) Panel 1, Penultimate Page - Machus, Femizons and Alpha Primitives

Panel one (l.) from page 30 of FF #153.   

Fantastic Four #153 (1974) Buckler

Fantastic Four #82 (1969) Jack Kirby

Here's the page below. Take a look at it, peruse it, commit it to memory even--aww, just kidding! No need to memorize this page, as we'll be seeing this page again and again in the next few posts when we examine some of the other panels.  

Fantastic Four #153 (1974) Buckler

Fantastic Four #153 (Pt 17) Thundra and Reed--Armed for Battle!

1974: Fantastic Four #153 - Rich Buckler

1968: Fantastic Four #82 - Jack Kirby

Fantastic Four #153 (Pt 15) Medusa--Fearless Front Facer!

Fantastic Four #82 (1969) Jack Kirby

Fantastic Four #153 (1974) Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #153 (Pt 13) Medusa and the Alpha Femizons!

FF #82 (1968) Kirby

FF #153 (1974) Buckler

Fantastic Four #152 (Pt 6) Mahkizmo and Sub-Mariner

Fantastic Four #152 (1974) Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #27 (1964) Jack Kirby

And in the FF #152 Mahkizmo panel, did you notice Medusa on the side? We've seen this before, remember?  

Fantastic Four #82 (1969) Kirby

Fantastic Four #150 (Pt 1) Group Shot

Fantastic Four #150 (1974) Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #44 (1965) Jack Kirby

Also, Medusa in the #150 panel is reminiscent of Medusa in this panel from 1969's FF #82. We'll see this Medusa image used again in another issue. 

Fantastic Four #82 (1969) Kirby

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Pt 1) Opening Splash

Sure, on the face of it this is a fairly standard superteam group shot. But there was something awfully familiar about the characters' positions, especially Cap's dramatic pointing finger and Iron Man's very awkward crouch.  And then--it hit me!

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (1974) Rich Buckler

Fantastic Four #82 (1969) Jack Kirby

                                             

Panelocity Plus! GSA #1's Cap figure also seems based in part on Sal Buscema's dynamic, Kirbyesque Cap on the cover of Avengers #71 (1969). 

Roy Thomas wrote GSAvengers1 and Avengers 71--as if you didn't know already know that, since both issues spotlight some legendary Timely Golden Age characters...you know 'em as the All-Winners Squad/Invaders.  ;)  

And I'm sure all you True Believers noticed and appreciated Buckler's fine recreation of the very famous All Winners Comics #19 cover (as the Whizzer relates his days with that fabled team).