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Member Since February 2005
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FANTASTIC FOUR #51 TITLE SPLASH

Location: Acquiring Simply the Best!
Artists: Jack Kirby (Penciller) ,  Joe Sinnott (Inker)

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FANTASTIC FOUR #51 TITLE SPLASH
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Fantastic Four #51 Published Title Splash
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Location: Acquiring Simply the Best!
Title: FANTASTIC FOUR #51 TITLE SPLASH
Artist:  Jack Kirby (Penciller) ,  Joe Sinnott (Inker)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Title Page
For Sale Status: Contact EarthshineStudios.com
Views: 9303
Likes on CAF: 12
Favorited on CAF: 11
Comments: 32
Added to Site: 3/16/2005

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Description
Standing alone in the rain...

Four flew into space. Three returned enhanced. One was tragically forever changed. If there existed one panel where Ben Grimm's character was perfectly portrayed, it is here. Here on this one splash, through this one window into Marvel's past, with his creator long departed from this earth, one can view what greatness is all about and where the Thing still resides to this day. The first page of comic art I ever acquired.

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MARK McDERMOTT
Member Since: February 2005
Last Login: April 2026
Ebay Id: journey2
Website: https://www.earthshinestudios.com
Country: UNITED STATES
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comicinkking. com Member Since 2004
Posted On 5/17/2005

Killer splash from one of the best Lee/Kirby issues of the entire run!!
Nick Katradis Member Since 2005
Posted On 8/20/2005

mark, stunning piece! congrads!
JOE JUSKO Member Since 2004
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Posted On 10/23/2005

WOW! Next to the cover and Surfer interior splash from FF #72, this is my favorite Kirby piece EVER!
Ross T. L. Member Since 2004
Posted On 11/19/2007

Mark, you were right on this one, you were definitely right.
Wayne Mousseau Member Since 2005
Posted On 9/6/2008

An amazing page from one of the best FF stories ever written.
Wayne Mousseau Member Since 2005
Posted On 9/6/2008

An amazing page from one of the best FF story ever written.
Mike W Member Since 2007
Posted On 9/20/2008

This is a true Grail. One of the most famous splash pages in comics from one of the greatest stories ever written. Your description was perfect. If there was a Hall of Fame for comic book art, this would be in it.
Michael Arndt Member Since 2008
Posted On 1/3/2009

One of my favorite splash pages. Kirby always drew the best Thing.
Joseph Serpico Member Since 2009
Posted On 4/8/2010

For what we know to still exist, this is maybe THE grail piece, the most iconic, work of art of the whole run, from all the way back then to now. Fantastic, times 4.
Sean M. Member Since 2010
Posted On 9/5/2010

Perhaps the best inking of a Kirby page ever.
Sean M. Member Since 2010
Posted On 9/5/2010

Perhaps the best inking of a Kirby page ever.
Michael Kenyon Member Since 2008
Posted On 8/24/2011

How the heck can 2100 people view this and only 12 respond??? This might be the single greatest splash of all time. Would love to hear you tell the story of how you got it all those years back. What a great way to start collecting! !
Mark Luebker Member Since 2008
Posted On 9/10/2011

Michael Kenyon wrote:
" How the heck can 2100 people view this and only 12 respond???  "
I don't know about anyone else, but my speechless state when I look at this splash page comes from being thunderstruck by the realization that it's actually out there and someone owns it! What an incredible gem! Any chance you could post a high-rez version for those of us who can only imagine what it must be like to be able to look at that every day?
MARK McDERMOTT Member Since 2005
Posted On 9/11/2011

Mark Luebker wrote:
" I don't know about anyone else, but my speechless state when I look at this splash page comes from being thunderstruck by the realization that it's actually out there and someone owns it! What an incredible gem! Any chance you could post a high-rez version for those of us who can only imagine what it must be like to be able to look at that every day?  "
Mark, give me a shout back sometime at journey2@mindspringdotcom and I might be of some assistance.
Maria Coppola Member Since 2011
Posted On 9/26/2011

Wow, one of the most iconic images in comics history! 'Nuff said!
Ron S Member Since 2007
Posted On 11/10/2011

This is just spectacular. Thanks for sharing.
bob fish Member Since 2011
Posted On 9/1/2012

The ONLY one !! just stunning with the rain....and all the memory...a great choice for a first page in a collection....congrats and thank's for sharing this grail for many of us
Josep  M. Neff Member Since 2011
Posted On 7/20/2013

Beautiful page of King, is fantastic!!!
Gordon Bartik Member Since 2013
Posted On 11/19/2015

Mark, what you have here is sublime. I think this is my favourite Kirby page ever. You can literally feel and hear the rain as it bounces down the tragic and heroic figure of Ben Grimm aka The Thing, onto the hard cement/bitumen pavement. Just wonderful!
Gordon Bartik Member Since 2013
Posted On 11/19/2015

Mark, what you have here is sublime. I think this is my favourite Kirby page ever. You can literally feel and hear the rain as it bounces down the tragic and heroic figure of Ben Grimm aka The Thing, onto the hard cement/bitumen pavement. Just wonderful!
Gordon Bartik Member Since 2013
Posted On 11/19/2015

Mark, what you have here is sublime. I think this is my favourite Kirby page ever. You can literally feel and hear the rain as it bounces down the tragic and heroic figure of Ben Grimm aka The Thing, onto the hard cement/bitumen pavement. Just wonderful!
Dino Mauricio Member Since 2009
Posted On 11/19/2015

Best Thing splash ever!
Jonathan Mueller Member Since 2005
Posted On 11/20/2015

Saw this pop up on the most commented today and thought it must have changed hands, glad to have been mistaken. Congrats, and thanks for sharing this work of art with the rest of us.
Daniel B Member Since 2012
Posted On 6/2/2018

That's one for the History books. Perhaps the most iconic page of all Kirby's FF run, and one of my very favorite.

 Sean Clarke Member Since 2005
Posted On 10/11/2018

A perfect blending of talents from Lee/Kirby/Sinnott/Simek, flawlessly executed, poignant and powerful, and well deserving of its place in comics history. The first fifty issues of the FF were building up to this one moment in the series!

 Dan P Member Since 2009
Posted On 10/11/2018

Best Thing splash ever!

 Lars Teglbjaerg Member Since 2005
Posted On 10/13/2018

Excuse the pun, but this is a monster splash in any respect. Jack poured his heart into this one.

 Peter Sullivan Member Since 2006
Posted On 2/14/2019

The Thing has never been drawn better than on this page.Its wonderful.

 Rob L Member Since 2003
Posted On 4/17/2021

This page is so ASTONISHING, it ought to have about a THOUSAND comments to it!  What a LANDMARK, ICONIC page of story-telling and art, from one of the great comic books ever!

 MARK McDERMOTT Member Since 2005
Posted On 1/24/2024

Rob L wrote:
"  This page is so ASTONISHING, it ought to have about a THOUSAND comments to it!  What a LANDMARK, ICONIC page of story-telling and art, from one of the great comic books ever!
 "

Thanks Rob! And it was the very first piece of art I ever purchased.

 Atilla A Member Since 2003
Posted On 1/24/2024

One of my favourite FF stories. Amazing.

 gene o Member Since 2018
Posted On 3/12/2026

possibly the single greatest Thing page in Marvel history 

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