Posted: 18 January 2019 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | 3
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My own guess is that Stan, following his talk with Martin Goodman about the success over at DC with the "Justice League of America," did plan to make the book more of a super-hero comic, but that since this was Marvel's first super-hero comic in years they played it safe the first couple of issues. After all, Atlas (Marvel) was most known at that time for their monster comics.
The covers for issue #1 & #2 could be looked upon as monster comics in much the same vein as the other monster books Atlas/Marvel was then publishing. I wonder if a monstrous character like the Thing, which was then unique in being a super-heroic monster, was trying to play it safe with Marvel's established fan base of the period? Even the original, rejected cover for #3 was going to focus more on a monster than the team. I think taht cover was rejected in part due to the title having proven its success by then -- I assume the initial feedback started coming in from readers-- as a super-hero comic series.
Edited by Matt Hawes on 18 January 2019 at 1:24pm
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