Now, in my naiveté I confess I didn't know about re-issues or reprints. I thought every comic from Marvel or DC was fresh and new. What I had in my hands was not the latest comic about the Fantastic Four but a re-hash of an old issue. Later on when I figured it out -art from 1966 not 1972- (it explained the short hair on Johnny Storm). Marvel's Greatest Comics #37 Sept 1972 was merely a repackaging of Fantastic Four #50 May 1966.
But what an issue to reprint.
In this part of the Fantastic Four's development they encountered space aliens, Mole people, Doctor Doom (a prototype predating Darth Vader of metal masked evil genius), the whole gambit. But they had yet to come up against an enemy whose only vice was that he needed to drain the planet Earth of its power to recharge himself thereby killing off all life on Earth: Galactus!
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