Writer Joe Keatinge (SHUTTER, Evolution, Stellar) joins us to talk about the first meeting of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, Jack Kirby's wartime experience, and why Steve Ditko might have been the best thing early Marvel had going for it. He also points out a very obvious and very cool thing about Black Widow's original costume that we completely missed.
Note: We started out by titling these episodes with the cover date (the date that's printed on the cover), but we switched to their newsstand dates (the dates they went on sale) around episode #50. The newsstand date for this episode is February/March 1964.
Reading List: Fantastic Four #26, Tales of Suspense #53, Journey Into Mystery #104, Avengers #5, Amazing Spider-Man #12, Sgt. Fury #7, Tales to Astonish #55, Strange Tales #120, X-Men #5, ©1964 Marvel Comics.
Learn more about all of the awesome stuff that Joe Keatinge has done and continues to do at joekeatinge.com.
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