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AMAZING FANTASY #15 Facsimile Edition is a nice little addition to the series, but I have to be honest and say it's not quite as good as it could be. However, first let me tell you what is good about it. The SPIDER-MAN strip, unlike many previous 'doctored' reprints, is reproduced from faithful source material, with none of the clumsy amendments, alterations, or restorations that earlier re-presentations suffered from. What's not so good is that, unfortunately, the back-up strips are taken from the 1992 MARVEL MILESTONE EDITION, and are not quite as sharp in the reproduction stakes as the main tale.
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| SUE STORM making a guest 'appearance' in the latest incarnation of the ad? |
What's more, for some curious (no doubt PC reason), an image has been omitted from one of the ads, and the indicia has been moved from the inside cover to under the splash page, leaving too large a space where it originally sat. Also, the cover COMICS CODE stamp has been deleted, which I think is a step too far, as keeping it would help capture the 'spirit of the age' in which the mag first appeared. Plus, the bar code box is too prominent - it could be smaller, as it was on the Facsimile Edition of FANTASTIC FOUR #1.
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| Perhaps it was felt that she was too full of 'adoration' in her manner, but isn't that the whole point of the ad - to attract adoring women? |
Those few gripes aside, I'd still recommend it, as it's the closest that most of us will come to ever owning anything resembling the original 1962 comic. Pick one up as soon as you can, because these mags sell for at least twice the price on ebay once they're no longer available - sometimes even more.
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| Why not keep the (new) indicia where the original was, like in the Fantastic Four Facsimile Edition? Why compromise its integrity? |
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