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How did the SECRET WARS mini series fit in with Shooter's own rules? What about other comics he wrote at the time?•• SECRET WARS contained one of the most blatant examples of how Shoot "obeyed" his own rules. A standing complaint he had was when we'd have a big shot of the villain on the last page. "That just turns the last page into an ad for the next issue!" he said. (I could never figure out why that was a BAD thing!) In SECRET WARS, he had the Beyonder scoop Galactus off to his planet, as one of the "villains" (despite my having spent two years -- at Shooter's order! -- establishing in FANTASTIC FOUR that Galactus was NOT a "villain") and spend a few issues lying unconscious. Finally, Galactus stirred, rose, and began to move… Which any artist worth his salt would have portrayed with a splash of Galactus, well, stirring, rising, and beginning to move! That, however, was forbidden by Shooter, so instead Zeck was forced to draw one of the other characters, in the last panel of a multi-panel page, running in shouting "Galactus is on the move!" Yeah! That's how KIRBY would have done it! (Two things Shooter forbade -- but we sometimes did anyway -- was big shots of the villain on the last page, and broken or obscured logos. Is it sheer happenstance, I wonder, that the two best selling issues of FF I did during my run as writer/artist, aside from the X-Skrulls, were the ones that introduced Terminus -- the first of which ended with a splash of the villain, and the second of which had a broken logo?)
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