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Robert Bradley
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And finally, the first FF corner box appeared on FF #14, and was done by Kirby of course -
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"Patsy Walker" #106 was the first Marvel comic that sported a corner cover box.
This CBR column discusses the history, and a person wrote in with a scan from the same letters page I mentioned on my previous post where Stan gave credit to Steve Ditko for the idea of the box:
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Robert Bradley
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That PATSY WALKER # 106 was cover dated April, 1963 and is the only comic with a corner box that month. The next month, May, 1963 included AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2, FANTASTIC FOUR #14, GUNSMOKE WESTERN #76 (Kid Colt), JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #92 (Thor), LOVE ROMANCES #105, MILLIE THE MODEL #114, SGT FURY #1, STRANGE TALES #108 (the Human Torch), TALES OF SUSPENSE #41 (Iron Man) and TALES TO ASTONISH (Ant-Man) which all had corner boxes, while KID COLT, OUTLAW #110 and TWO-GUN KID #63 did not.
In June, 1963 they all had corner boxes. In November, 1971 the box disappeared as they just went with a corner figure on most of their titles. By January, 1972 the boxes were gone, only to make a comeback (gradually, at first) beginning in January, 1976 and lasting until 1995.
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John Byrne
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I'm guessing PATSY was in the last ship week, and FF in the first.Still remember the vaguely disconcerting feeling of seeing that FF cover. Of course, that might have had something to do with the fact that I was heading in to the dentist's office when I picked it up.
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I just had a flashback of happily cutting out The Thing from the top cover corner of FF #151 to make a poor person's sticker of it. I would like to apologize to Rich Buckler and all collectors for this. I may even have clipped out the Marvel Value Stamp as well.
'My bad'. :^/
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Do any of you ALPHA FLIGHT fans remember looking to the cornerbox to see which Alphans were going to appear in that particular issue?? I love that!!
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I absolutely remember that, Marc, along with Avengers titles, Uncanny, etc. Since the original Secret Wars was my gateway into most Marvel superhero books, I remember being disappointed that the corner box did not change from issue to issue.
I don't have any tattoos, but I once upon a time had given serious thought to starting a series of JB's corner box art. Thankfully, I just found a t-shirt online with some of them instead. Bullet...dodged.
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Once again, it was very gratifying to see Havok and Lorna corner box heads for XM:HY. They never made it the first time around!
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On sale dates for the 12 Marvel comics cover dated May, 1963 -
Issues with cover boxes - PATSY WALKER #106 - February 5, 1963TALES TO ASTONISH #43 - February 5, 1963 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 - February 12, 1963 FANTASTIC FOUR #14 - February 12, 1963 JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #91 - February 12, 1963 MILLIE THE MODEL #114 - February 12, 1963 STRANGE TALES #108 - February 12, 1963 TALES OF SUSPENSE #112 - February 12, 1963
Issues without corner boxes - KATHY #22 - February 5, 1963 MODELING WITH MILLIE - February 5, 1963 KID COLT, OUTLAW #110 - February 12, 1963 TWO-GUN KID #63 - February 5, 1963
So MILLLIE THE MODEL and TALES TO ASTONISH were the first with corner boxes, KID COLT, OUTLAW the last without.
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Man o man, check the content diversity!
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4 monthly girl's comics, 2 Westerns, 3 anthology comics (with superhero leads) and 2 superhero comics.
Their other comics were also non-superhero comics - PATSY AND HEDY, LOVE ROMANCES, RAWHIDE KID and GUNSMOKE WESTERN (which were all bi-monthly) and SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING OMMANDOS, which was replacing the cancelled INCEDIBLE HULK
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By the time I started reading in the 70's the Western comics were dying out with only a few running as reprint titles and the girl's comics had concentrated more more on cartoonish humor.
Of course horror and martial arts were the rage, and we were seeing some diversity in characters with their own titles (Luke Cage, Black Panther, the Cat, Shanna the She-Devil) and Conan was starting out.
Plus it was a "golden age" if you wanted reprint titles!
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