But not tonight

In the exact same issue of Fantastic Four where there's a fairly unnecessary panel of Medusa, we also get a couple panels featuring big-time FF co-star Barney Slocum. As I like to say, "now that Barney's become such a major part of the Marvel Universe, it's fun to see where he got his start!"


Panels from Fantastic Four #158 (May 1975), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Joe Sinnott, colors by Janice Cohen, letters by Joe Rosen

Just like Barney, whose story may someday be told (perhaps in the upcoming limited series Fear Itself: Barney Slocum vs. the Marvel Universe), yet again tonight I'm unable to give you the second half of my series on volume numbers and issue numbers which started here. Lesson of the week: never say "tomorrow" when I don't have all the scans done yet. Next week, I hope..but you will get to read it!

Apologies to you, apologies to everybody who wrote in about it, but most of all, apologies to Barney Slocum.