STEVE DITKO ART IN THE FANTASTIC FOUR #3...?

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Funny how we can be so familiar with some images that we

stop really 'seeing' them after a while.  Case in point is FF #3,

which I first read in the pages of WHAM! in 1966.  I read it again

a year or so later in an issue of MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM

CLASSICS, and again in The MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL

in 1972.  I've now got various reprints of the story in different pub-

lications, but I only noticed something for the very first time while

re-reading the story in a MASTERWORKS volume a couple

of nights back.  Can you spot what I'm referring to?

Look at the figure of REED RICHARDS in the above panel.

That sure looks a lot like a STEVE DITKO drawing to me.  Could

Steve have retouched the figure at STAN LEE's request when SD

was in the Bullpen one day, or maybe even redrawn it?  What think

the rest of you?  Could I be right, or am I talking my usual load of

old pants?  Let rip in the comments section, why don'tcha?!

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