Fantastic Four #124 page 19

Sticky Marvel goo with consciousness?  .... hmmm.... sounds vaguely familiar. Better watch your back if that paste-up suddenly goes missing ;)

Although it looks like Reed could use its help!

:-) Well, I guess it could be psychomagnotheric slime, reacting to Ben's emotions. Or the parasite from Slither. No.. wait... you don't mean... Venom, do you? The stat may already have killed?

I'm surprised the doctor isn't smoking a cigarette while planning how to gaslight his patient. Great movement!

Ha ha, yes that would have made the hospital scene more credible. I love it that they are even trying to wrestle with a giant rubber band.

Great page by 2 Marvel heavyweights - Buscema and Sinnott bring us a great example of Marvel story telling! Is Ben's face a stat? I am curious what Big John's first stab looks like. Congrats - another homerun in your wonderful gallery of Marvel greatness!

Thanks, Dave! I've never dared to take the stat off, in case it really does have a life of its own.

You can't keep a good superhero man down. Buscema turns a hospital room into an action packed escape scene.

Love this great page from a great run on the FF.

So true! The setting of a hospital seems dull, but Big John spins the reader through the rooms and corridors to make it so much more dynamic. Thanks, Earl!

Another fine Buscema page. Love Reed's expression on the bottom left panel and seeing the paste up makes me want to seee what's under it! 

I've never taken the stat off to look. Perhaps the head was just too small. But after Rick's suggestion, I'm not sure I dare touch it!

No art underneath, sadly - I checked (explanation added at the top). But thanks for the suggestion!

FF pages by the Buscema/Sinnott art team rank above most! Congratulations!

Buscema's run on FF is very good, underrated compared to Kirby's. I think it's a good comic and a good run.

John and Joe on a great page, congrats!

Classic 6-panel layout FF page from Buscema & Sinnott~! Ben's image (and his vintage aging adesive color!) is so sweet and the Reed sequence is also great, especially the bottom 2 panels with the attempt at a stretchy (or sketchy? ha) escape!

A deranged and violent Reed Richards?!  Cool!

Lucky for us the hospital gown is made of unstable molecules like their costumes or we would of seen little Reed? Or big Reed? All I know is if I had Reed's power I be flippin pancakes with that Thing.

With great power comes great responsibility, John.

It's fourth wall breaking with how Ben stares out into the audience!

That Fantatic Four era is unbeatable! JB & JS did an amazing and perfect work! What a page man!

Thanks, Toni!

Suitably melodramatic page where Mr Fantastic really tries the patience of the medical staff... But, then, John Buscema knows how to make the maximum out of this situation... Action follows action!

Ha ha - I hadn't really viewed this from the perspective of the hospital staff. But yes, every opportunity for action is taken advantage of. Thanks, Al!

This was the over the top drama that Stan was so good at!

Never heard of glue being used as a coloring agent before, but hey it works!  Ha!  Seriously though, just a solid Buscema/Sinnott FF example.  Not easy to follow Marvel's most prominent and prolific artist on their flagship title, but Buscema more than holds his own.

Ben Grimm - ORANGE?!?  Whatta revoltin'... oh, no - wait.  That's right. :)  It's also pretty thematic as Ben is the glue that holds the FF together, so it all fits (and what a terrific shot of Ben's mug it is, too!!).  Such superb and melodramatic storytelling by Big John, too: rarely, if ever, has the act of an exhausted man trying to sit up and roll out of a hospital bed been rendered so dramatically and excitingly, and I love the way he drew Reed's hand is reaching towards the edge of the page in panel 6, as though he's trying to turn it himself to catch a sneak peek of whether he makes it or not... Always one to think outside the box, our Reed!  (As an aside, I wonder how many eager fanboys back in the day read this issue, arrived at this page, and subconsciously put their thumb RIGHT THERE when flipping the page, to literally make contact with Reed and help him in his quest...  I -know- I would have! :) ).  A beautiful storytelling page, with fantastic facial expressions and body language - awesome pick up, Paul!

Ha ha. I hadn't thought of the page-turning aspect, but you're right - it does look like that. Love the 'team glue' idea. Thanks, Jason!

Love the description. The issue after the Galactus/Gabriel the Herald story! Buscema really made Reed come alive in the facial expressions and stretching! Lovely followup to Kirby FF!

What a great page!  Reed can come across as all clinical and emotionally detached sometimes, but when it counts, he is totally devoted to Sue.  That's really nice to see.

A great page from one of my favorite FF comics (second to FF 112)! I always loved Big John's Thing, and it's too bad they put a stat over the Thing's head in the first panel- I would loved to have seen what Big John actually drew! The stat is actually Jack Kirby's Thing from the title page of FF #49 (with some of the details whited out)... the difference in style stood out like a sore thumb to me when I was a kid.

Wow, great spot, Bill! I hadn't thought about it being a direct swipe, but it is exactly that. From your comment and a couple of others, perhaps I really should see if I can find what's underneath. Thanks.

If you put it on a lightbox or hold it up to a light, you can probably get a good idea of what's under there... I'll bet it's awesome!

It was easy enough to lift it, but sadly... no art at all. I've put the full explanation at the top, but it looks to me like an editorial decision to change the panel content after the drawing stage. (The panel wasn't inked and cut out, or pasted over.) Oh well. Still interesting from a production point of view, I guess. Thanks for prompting me to check, Bill.

Very interesting- I'm surprised there wasn't at least a penciled panel. Thanks for update, Paul- an excellent page shrouded in mystery!!!

I love those FF done by John and Joe at this time. The face expressions were great and again, what a mastery in storytelling.
The flow between the panels is just incredible.

Congratulations Paul !

Thanks, Michel!