It's election day so I thought I would storytime the Fantastic

>>87562150
Thank you

Stopping in.

>>87562184
Of course, Sue Storm spends all her free time trying on wigs that she never actually wears.

>>87562205
This was decades before The Thing was revealed to be Jewish, right?

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>>87562253
Apparently Lee and Kirby always intended Ben to be Jewish, but couldn't declare it in the comic because it was still taboo back then. It wasn't revealed in the comic until the early 2000s

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Fuck I posted out of order.

>>87562142
>>87562339
Boy did this comic end up creating a whole bunch of continuity problems. This was actually Nick Fury's first apperance outside of his own book set in WWII.
Notice how he doesn't have the eyepatch even though it was established later that he's had it for decades. Notice that he's working for the CIA instead of SHIELD. Notice that Reed Richards is a WWII veteran that served alongside him.

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>>87562386
I would have been very interested in a spin-off series of Fury and pre-fantastic Richards fighting in WWII.

>>87562386
Eh, early word of god had him as a World War 1 vet. Him being a veteran of BOTH wars is far more of a plothole.

Though, serving in the Great War serves as a hell of an explanation for Reed's...shall we say intensity?

>>87562142
Someone should storytime the 2099 issues where Doom becomes the president of USA

>>87562465
Somebody should storytime "DCU: Decisions".

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>>87562430
Wouldn't that mean they're both in at least their mid 50s at this point?

>>87562430

Reed and Ben serving in WW2 together is one of my fav goofy touches from early marvel

>>87562339
Well would you look at that. Before the eye patch too.

>>87562283
man i'm ignorant but why was it taboo in america?

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Would you guys be interested in story timing One Nation Under Doom? I don't know if I could finish it today but I could start it off for a while.

>>87562603
Sure.

>>87562593
It was the 60s, the jews were only slightly above blacks in the eyes of many.

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And there it is

>>87562494
Yeah. Old as balls and way too old for Superheroing or testing out Rockets.

I still like that bit of trivia, because it explains Reed's white chops as the result of shell shock.

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HERE WE GO LADS

I haven't read this yet so I'll be reading along as well

>>87562445
Reed, you absolute madman!

>>87562659
Uh, you should probably start a new thread man...

>>87562719
I guess that's a good point

>>87562659
holy shit, thanks anon

>>87562769
New thread here

>>87562593
Because America was a very racist country.
And still is.

Guy asking about them not revealing Ben's Jewish. Remember that Lee and Kirby are pen names

>>87562529
>The costumed crusader
Is this DC?

>>87562445
Reed is..unnervingly skilled at this sort of thing.

>>87562386
>Notice how he doesn't have the eyepatch even though it was established later that he's had it for decades.

If it makes you feel better, I'd say that >>87562150
Is a clear indicator that maybe he felt a little self-conscious about it and tried out a glass eye, Columbo style before finally embracing the patch.
I mean, look at those eyes.

>>87562554
>But we couldn't interfere in another nation's affairs!
PFFFFFFT
PFFFFFFFFFFFFT

>>87565954

>Don't dare revealing his true identity
>where they literally fight a clone of Hitler.
LITERALLY ONE FUCKING JIB

>>87563543
WWII with him and Ben running about doing this stuff must have been hilarious. You can tell he's done this before.

>>87562150
I miss this kind of pages

>>87563268
That is absurd. If America was very racist during the 60's, how is it still very racist? Are you comparing modern America to an era of Jim Crow laws?

>>87562501
It wasn't goofy tho. Back in the 60s a bunch of middle age guys like Reed and Ben were WW2 vets.

Its Marvel doing what it does best by fitting to the contemporary culture at the time.

Like how now current Marvel Tony got his heart blown in Afghanistan isntead of Vietnam in the past.

>>87568811

Goofy because of how it fucks sliding timeline and has been abandoned

>>87568504
>how is it still very racist?
Segregation
Open hatred between ethnic groups, especially Jews hate ethnicities, but not opposite
Hardcore economic segregation
Literal nobility political dynasties

Sheltered rich communties forget that the lower classes do not behave like them at all due different socioeconomic upbringing and morals, creating tons of social economic tension when they do confront

There is other tell tale signs, such as wanting to ignore why different immigrant ethnicities do better than others.

You might not think USA is racist, but from a outside perspective it really is. From reasons ranging from the fact ghettoes are hellholes, to supressed ethnic tensions.

>>87562236
She wears them a lot actually in her free time

>>87562633
I liked Deadpool and Nick's issue better

>>87568504
Have you.. not been paying attention to absolutely anything within the last 5 years?
You mean besides the fact that schools are still segregated as much as they were in the 60's in northern states like NY aka the most segregated state in the country and those that were desegregated have been backsliding to segregation for the past several years?
Or the whole justice system not applying as much when you're a criminal if you're white thing? Or the entire prison industrial complex?
Or the fact that white college students like to sing about how they'll hang niggers from trees?
Or the fact that the NAACP is currently engaged in 5 federal lawsuits about the violation of the voting rights act and the Klu Klux Klan act of 1871? or any number of myriad things? Or just Donald Trump?

The major difference is that after the 60's it became generally bad to be explicitly racist. So long as you don't say the word nigger you're generally off the hook.

>>87562142

>>87562142
GOD DAMN IT OP THE COVER SAID NOT TO REVEAL IT

>>87562142
Cool beans!

>>87562248
Even back then it was obvious.. and you lot still voted Trump.
Jeez.