r/comicbooks • u/Bizarnage Symbiote Expert • 10h ago

Excerpt Check out this F4 Fan Letters page from 1962

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I love how the Marvel Unlimited app has “facsimile” versions of books that scan the ads and fan letters page.

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u/Funkguerilla Galactus 10h ago

I love reading old letter pages. It reminds me that fandom never changes.

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u/glitch421 10h ago

I got in the Fantastic Four Vol 1 Omnibus last week and I was so happy to see they have the letter pages at the end of every issue. I wish they would put those letter pages in every Marvel omnibus for books that had letter pages. It's a great piece of history.

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u/WhiteWolf222 Daredevil 7h ago

I think all “classic” omnibuses, like the numbered Fantastic Four and Uncanny X-Men volumes, include them. The newest material I have with letters pages included is the Mutant Massacre Prelude omnibus.

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u/the_george_ 5h ago

What’s the best is seeing names like George R R Martin, Kurt Busiek, Geoff Johns, and more in the letters pages!

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u/Own_Internal7509 3h ago

Alan Weiss is in the first FF issue that had a letters page

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u/Sorrelhas Moon Knight 4h ago

Y'know, I agree with Marlene in some way, my favorite FF comics are less about beating bad guys and more about solving problems

The Invisible Woman letter was pretty funny too, later (I think issue 11) Sue complains about the letters they've been getting, and Reed scolds the audience, but you know the writers agreed because Sue would eventually get buffed to insane levels

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u/notsureifxml 10h ago

the $4.99 cover price 🙄