Showing posts with label Baxter Building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baxter Building. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Today in Comics History, April 10, 1981, 7:29 PM: The Baxter Building lectures the Stooges


from Avengers #209 (Marvel, July 1981), script by J. M. DeMatteis, pencils by Alan Kupperberg, inks by Dan Green, colors by Barry Grossman, letters by Janice Chiang

Thursday, October 04, 2007

A very quick tour of the Baxter Building

Did this morning's post leave you with an eager need to see more of the Baxter Building's various floors and sections?

Then let's take a very quick tour of the Baxter with its most famous resident, Benjamin Grimm:
FF #242 panel
Panel from Fantastic Four #242 (May 1982), art by John Byrne


Why, thank you, Thing!


Our house is a very very very fine house/With a portal to the Negative Zone on the thirty-fourth floor...

Sure, most of us have photo albums of our house. Some of us might even have lovely oil paintings of our baronial estates. But how many of us have blueprints of where we live regularly published in comic books? Unless your last name is Richards, Storm, or Grimm...then not you, bub!

Fantastic Four #3 panel
From Fantastic Four #3 (March 1962), art by Jack Kirby


Fantastic Four #6 panel
From Fantastic Four #6 (September 1962), art by Jack Kirby


Fantastic Four Annual #1 panel
From Fantastic Four Annual #1 (1963), art by Jack Kirby


Fantastic Four #201 panel
From Fantastic Four #201 (December 1978), art by Keith Pollard and Joe Sinnott


Fantastic Four #249 panel
From Fantastic Four #249 (December 1982), art by John Byrne


OHOTMU #4 page
OHOTMU #4 page
From The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #4 (April 1983), art by Eliot R. Brown


Remember: save this post for future reference!...

...just in case you're ever lucky enough to visit the fabulous Baxter Building in beautiful midtown Manhattan: