Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas HC (Marvel Visionaries) (Hardcover)
by Roy Thomas, Stan Goldberg, Gene Colan, Don Heck, John Buscema, Barry Windsor-Smith, Marie Severin, Tom Sutton, Gil Kane, Neal Adams, Herb Trimpe, George Perez, Alan Weiss, Frank Robbins, Jackson Guice
List Price: $34.99

Book Description
Watch Roy Thomas take the Fantastic Four from the sublime to the ridiculous as the team confronts racism, social injustice and the Impossible Man! Meanwhile, the Sub-Mariner fights Dragon Man! The Vision joins the Avengers! The Hulk finds his way to "Heaven," and Captain Marvel escapes the Murder Maze! The origin of the Invaders! Secrets of Doctor Strange revealed! Dracula in Salem and the X-Men in Japan! And who is Starr the Slayer? Plus: rarely seen stories from Marvel's Silver Age of humor and romance! Collects Modeling With Millie #44, Tales Of Suspense #73; Avengers #35, #57-58, #100; Sub-Mariner #8 & #14; Not Brand Ecch #12; Captain Marvel #19; X-Men #164; Chamber Of Darkness #4; Amazing Adventures # (5, 6 or 8); Incredible Hulk #147; Fantastic Four #119 & 176; Dracula Lives #1; Giant-Size Invaders #1; & Doctor Strange #9

Product Details
* Hardcover: 352 pages
* Publisher: Marvel Comics (January 25, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 0785120882

Marvel Celebrates Its 65th Anniversary In Style
by NMX at 02:54:51 on 11/05/04

BEST OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR HC
0-7851-1702-2
$29.99
360 Page Hard Cover Color

Collects: FANTASTIC FOUR #1 - "The Fantastic Four,” FANTASTIC FOUR #39-40 - "Battle of the Baxter Building,” FANTASTIC FOUR #51 - "This Man, This Monster,” FANTASTIC FOUR #116 - "The Alien, The Ally and Armageddon,” FANTASTIC FOUR #176 - Impossible Man by Roy Thomas and George Perez, FANTASTIC FOUR #236 - "Terror in a Tiny Town,” FANTASTIC FOUR #267 - Sue loses the baby, MARVEL FANFARE #15 - Barry Smith Thing story, FANTASTIC FOUR #347-349 - "The New Fantastic Four,” FANTASTIC FOUR v3 #56 - Ben is Jewish, FANTASTIC FOUR v3 #60 - Imaginauts.

From Super-hero alter egos to Alter Ego
written by George Nelson
published in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1528 (28 Feb 03)

Catching Up with Roy Thomas

(excerpt)

During that tenure at Marvel, Thomas wrote several other key titles, including Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, a second run on X-Men with Neal Adams, and Fantastic Four (with a young artist named George Pérez, who took over the series after assisting penciller Rich Buckler).

"I really liked George's work from the beginning," Thomas told CBG. "We had a lot of fun with it. We did issues in which we had people trying out for The Frightful Four. We did the second Impossible Man story."

FANTASTIC FOUR #176 (Nov 1976)

hey kids! COMICS!
Back to the future of comics, again...
written by Heidi MacDonald

(excerpt)

At a foodtown in a dusty strip mall on Route 28 in Whitehouse Station, N.J., there was a decrepit spinner rack. The comics were yellowed and creased, because no rack jobber came by.

For some reason, I purchased Amazing Spider-Man #161 written by Len Wein with art by Ross Andru, which featured The Punisher and Nighcrawler, and Fantastic Four #176 by Roy Thomas and George Pérez, which featured The Impossible Man attacking some really cool place called the Marvel Bullpen.

(Aside: That story was just reprinted in Fantastic Four vol. 3, #54… might have to go snag a copy.)

...

Unbeknownst to me, later I would work with Len Wein and go to lunch with him once a week on the Disney lot. I would interview George Pérez for a special spotlight. I'd see Chris Claremont almost every day, because he was walking to work through Madison Square Park in one direction, and I was walking in the other direction, and we'd stop and say hi once in a while.

[ Read more on COMICS BUYERS GUIDE #1500 ]

Looking through the latest reprint of FANTASTIC FOUR #176, I thought these panels were pretty amusing.

Panel One: Jack Kirby
Panel Two: George Pérez and Roy Thomas
Panel Three: Stan Lee

The Marvel staff appearances in comes (drawn by Pérez) isn't that uncommon back in the 70s and 80s. In fact, George's first work (in ASTONISHING TALES #25) is about Marvel staff.

  FANTASTIC FOUR #54
Cover By Mike Wieringo & Karl Kesel
Carlos Pacheco, Rafael Marin & Karl Kesel /Mark Bagley /Al Vey

THE SCOOP: Look out, it’s the 100-Page Monster!

THE STORY: The murderous plan of the Hidden Ones stands revealed, as does their history with the beseiged Inhumans! And with the Invisible Woman and her unborn child near death, and Mr. Fantastic a wanted fugitive, must the Human Torch put himself in the hands of his greatest enemy in order to insure the Fantastic Four's survival? Plus: The birth of Franklin Richards from FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #6 -- the longest single FF story produced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby! And to top it all off, the Impossible Man invades the Marvel Bullpen in a tale from FANTASTIC FOUR #176 by Roy Thomas and George Pérez!

THE FORMAT: Take one all-new story, then add on a double-sized tale and yet another full-length adventure and you have one huge honkin’ comic... for only a buck and a quarter more!

On Sale April 03, $3.50; Marvel PG