Issue #61: Comic Books For The Week Of Wednesday, July 1, 2009!

Terry Moore's Echo #13 (Abstract Studios)
Fantastic Four #568 (Marvel)
From the back issue bin:
Action Comics #484, June 1978 (DC) 40th Anniversary Issue Superman Takes A Wife

Terry Moore's Echo #13 (Abstract Studios) * * * * *

This issue everyone's plans seem to start to unravel. An emergency calls Ivy off the chase of Dillon and Julie, whose sister has escaped the mental institution she had been staying in. The news channels are at the scene of the crater that wiped out the highway and the bear of a man Dan Backer goes to the offices of the HeNRI corporation. He is there to claim the bodies of his four brothers who were killed guarding Dillon and Julie when they were attacked by the crazy old man with the metal covered hand. The heat is being turned up on the entire cast, and it looks like nobody is going to have a good day next issue. Terry Moore is doing an excellent job of crafting a suspensful science fiction adventure story, complete with excellent covers.

Fantastic Four #568 (Marvel) * * * *

Ben's fiance Debbie begins to experience the bad side of being engaged to a super hero who does not have a secret identity. Doom's master spends most of this issue toying with the Fantastic Four and presenting Reed Richards with an impossible choice. Of course Reed says there is a third option, but at the end of the issue he faces a challenge from an unexpected source. Next issue is the conclusion, not only to this story but to Mark Millar and Brian Hitch's run on the FF. They have certainly presented themselves a challenge to wrap up this story, and I can't wait until the next issue to find out how the FF win. Hey, it's their title, isn't it?

From the back issue bins:
Action Comics #484, June 1978 (DC) 40th Anniversary Issue: Superman Takes A Wife!

Since this was a light week for me, I could not resist this back issue I had my eye on for a while. I first read this story on a web site while doing research for an episode of my podcast, Superman Fan Podcast. This story was the original Clark/Superman marries Lois story from 1978. It was not an imaginary story, but the story of the Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane. Readers of Crisis On Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis can read this story of how the Earth 2 Superman and Lois finally got together. It is told in typical silver age style, so it may seem old fashioned to younger readers. For older readers like me, who grew up on these stories (even though I never read this story for myself until now) it was one of the better silver age style stories. If this story interests you, in case a back issue is not available, this story was reprinted in the trade paperback Superman In The Seventies.

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