This is a long-form epic titled…
Doomsday!
And it’s excellent!
Stan and Jack were really getting into this kind of story telling now, which kind of parallels where they were at with Avengers at this time as well. Major arcs would generally have a “major” and “minor” storyline, which intersected only slightly. Nobody is really telling stories like that much anymore, except perhaps Jonathan Hickman when he ran Fantastic Four and “FF” simultaneously, often telling the same story from two different perspectives.
Sandman is involved in this arc, too. But the major story is about The Silver Surfer and Doctor Doom. Meanwhile, The Thing is reading a Ghost Story and getting creeped out. That’s neat.
But again, the main event are the two most popular FF extended castmembers of all time.
Doom manages to steal the power cosmic from Galactus’ former herald. And he gets the dude’s board as well.
Surfin’ Doom.
There’s nothing about that that isn’t awesome.
The Inhumans also figure into the story, and Black Bolt frees his kingdom from the Negative Zone (the barrier that keeps it hidden from the world) using his outside voice…
And if that’s not enough, #62 is the first appearance of Blastaar the Living Bombburst! I love this dude. When I was a kid, I drew red dots on my Mego Captain Kirk’s hands and pretended he could shoot blow-up beams from his palms. Because Mego never made a Blastaar action figure. If they did, I’d have been all over that.
It’s a little odd, though, that he gets a beat-down from Triton of the Inhumans.
I don’t think anyone thinks of Triton as a tough hand-to-hand guy. Eventually, the clock strikes clobberin’ time and Blastaar goes home sad.
And those sound effects are outstanding.
This is probably my favorite arc from the Lee/Kirby years.
This is one of the top 10 Dr. Doom comics of all time! See the rest here and here.
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