#JackedKirby - You remember that time the FF protected the Moon Landing??? 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔 Being that we just passed the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 manned moon landing (July 16th 1969) I thought it would be cool to look back at the time Stan and Jack portrayed the Marvel version of that event... and how the First Family helped NASA accomplish the epic task!!! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌑🌓🌔 Fantastic Four #Issue98 came out in May of 1970 and is near the tail end of “The Run”, Jack and Stan’s epic 102 Issue journey (plus annuals!) together on the FF. The issue features Reed getting a cryptic transmission from space about an impeding threat... and it happens to coincide with the upcoming moon mission!!!! This is an obvious “ripper from the headlines” story and the cover (pic 1) makes sure to highlight it in the story title “Doomsday on the Moon!!!” 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌑🌓🌔 Kree Sentry #459 wants the Apollo mission to fail so he plan on sabotaging it... but not if the FF can stop it!!! Ben, Reed And Johnny (sans Sue) spring into action after drawing conclusions that Reed’s message is tied to the upcoming space mission... 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌓🌔 I also really love the use of actual newspaper headlines in the story to highlight a real life event taking place in the 616 universe... Pics 2/3/4 all show the characters reading about the Apollo Mission and utilizing this info to further the story. Another cool twist is that the heroes arrive home just in time to see Neil Armstrong’s epic first steps on the moon and hear his “one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind” declaration with Jack recreated to close out the issue (pics 5/6). Done perfectly... historically accurate and wonderfully rendered by The King!!! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌘🌒🌓🌔 #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #FF #FantasticFour #Kree #MoonLanding #NeilArmstrong #BuzzAldrin #Marvel #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #70sComics #ComicsOfThe70s #IGcomics #ComicsOfIG #50thanniversary #MoonLanding https://www.instagram.com/p/B0OjFq-Bf1k/?igshid=1i6jzy5gwpdr1
