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Steven Brake
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Posted: 20 October 2022 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

...well, yesterday, but I was a bit preoccupied with ongoing events here in the UK! :)

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John Byrne

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Posted: 20 October 2022 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

SHADDAP!!!!!
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Steven Brake
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Posted: 20 October 2022 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Sorry! :)

Brilliant issue, though!
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Mark Haslett
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Posted: 20 October 2022 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

The emotional ride of that story, just on the surface level of "Look! It's John Byrne's X-Men! Oh wait, no it's not!" was exhilarating. The fact that the story itself was unpredictable and (yet) steeped in Fantastic Four tradition was masterful.

The story-factory at the House of Ideas had plenty of smoke rising out of its chimneys back then, I tells ya!
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 20 October 2022 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

What an issue that was.

What a run that was.
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Wilson Mui
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Posted: 20 October 2022 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Hard to believe it has been 40 years
already. I still remember the day I bought
it. I was eleven years old and picked it
up on the way to dinner at a restaurant
with my family. I was reading it in
between courses!
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John Byrne

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Posted: 20 October 2022 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Reminds me of my experience with the second STRANGE TALES ANNUAL, that I picked up as my family headed out to dinner on my 13th birthday. (25¢!!)

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John Byrne

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Posted: 21 October 2022 at 1:09am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Eep! I have a page of original art from that annual, Kirby/Ditko, and I’m suddenly realizing it was created almost sixty years ago!
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Rod Collins
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Posted: 21 October 2022 at 9:15am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

I can actually remember the day I got my copy. My aunt had taken me to see a midday session of E.T., and I was allowed to grab a comic from the local newsagency.  I narrowed it down to two books, this and the X-Men/Teen Titans crosover.  Eventually the FF won out, as it had a lot of my favourite heroes in the one book.  The Thing punching the bus into the air still brings a smile to face.
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Ron Grant
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Posted: 21 October 2022 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

That was my entry point to collecting JB's FF
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Steve Adelson
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Posted: 21 October 2022 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

My RE-entry into comics.  A friend had 250, which I loved and relit my comic passion.  Went out to 7-11 that day to purchase 251.
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Craig Earl
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Posted: 21 October 2022 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

It's an indication of our love of the medium that we can recall where we were when we bought some of these iconic issues. I got a stack of Byrne FF's (241 to 255) from the London Comic Mart that was held at Central Hall, Westminster. Came home with a load of MIller DD's too. 
Good times!

 
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