Fantastic Four

Yeah.

And then Fantastic Four with Claremont.

And I don't remember who the artist was.

Salvador

Earth zero the ultimate marvel universe earth max the max universe earth razor line home of the ecto kid and others oh clive barker uh earth 2099 the marvel 2099 universe earth 1 million the guardians of the galaxy universe earth x of earth x universe x and paradise x earth x sentinel the exped days of future past universe and let's not forget transformers and gi joe during their marvel years this is becoming a danger for marvel comics any chance marvel might do a universe cleansing crisis on infinite earth type storyline to sort this all out i love that idea he's just like this is a problem Okay, so here is Jim McLaughlin's response.

Hey, don't stop there.

Obnoxio the Clown met the X-Men once, which must constitute a separate universe, and Doctor Doom met Stan Lee and Jack Kirby way back in Fantastic Four number 10.

Hell, Kiss met Howard the Duck and the X-Men.

It doesn't ever become that, though.

It actually opens with Jack Kirby art from Fantastic Four number 48, written by Stan Lee.

And we have one full page of that Kirby art that is the beginning of the Galactus coming to Earth and attempting to destroy it, that iconic story.

And Francesco Mobili then, on the very next page, halfway down, draws in like a curvy, simpler style.

be fun.

I don't know if you know this, but if you saw Alex Ross's nice Fantastic Four book, he kind of based Reed Richards on the look of Gary Vaynerchuk.

Yes.

Gary was thrilled.

And Gary's like, hey, I got to make my Marvel movie.

He goes, I never thought I'd make it.

So he considers Fantastic Four full circle his Marvel movie.

Have you read it? Did you read Alex's? Yeah.

It's, it's-

You can just imagine that's from a Fantastic Four book in the 1960s, basically.

Yeah.

Mm.

Galactus' ship.

Oh, very...

Oh, yeah, you've really nailed it with Fantastic Four.

Mm-hmm.

But he slowly flipped through a museum as I watched.

Fantastic Four 1 through 3, Avengers, X-Men, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Groot, the Talking Horse, Hulk.

And that was just Marvel.

First appearances of Robin, Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, Riddler, Lex Luthor, Supergirl, Crypto.

I met Steve Ditko, who created Spider-Man.

I met Jack Kirby, who created the Hulk and Fantastic Four.

And I worked with Stan Lee, uh, a little bit on a couple of projects.

What was that like?

And also, we ordered a ton of the A-covers.

So while we might be out of specific variants, which we are, we will have the A-covers of Midnight, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Spider-Man 1 for a while.

We wanted to make sure that this was a book... that we did not have to wait for second and third and fourth prints on.

We wanted to make sure that if people were excited about it, we would have it for them.

And we've had a few problems recently with like the DNX issues of X-Men where people weren't really upping their pre-orders to get those issues alongside DNX.

So I assume that most fans... were already reading x-men who were reading dnx and i found out they were not so we were selling out of the dnx tie-in issues like day of release and we'd reordered some we got some back in and that's great but then there's a window of like four or five days after release where we don't have it and that's when people are looking for it and i feel bad and that is me not doing my job as well as i could some of it you can't predict and some of it is just you should have predicted it that's your job that's what are those

people reading fantastic four

We sold a lot of that today for at least two.