Fin Fang Foom, part 2

The second part of the story from last week in this issue of Crazy, and drawn by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. For more info on the story click the “last week” hyperlink.

And here's the original story from Strange Tales this was taken from:

CRAZY #73: Fin Fang Foom, part 1

Crazy #73 from April 1981 was one of their “Super Special” editions that mostly featured reprints of previous issues. This one also had something called “The Fuppets” of cutouts so you can do a play of Marvel characters such as Spider-Man and Hulk performed with finger puppets.

This annual was done under a cover by Bobby London, who co-incidentally sent me a birthday greeting through Facebook as I was typing this.

A feature they'd do here and in the annuals was re-letter old comics with new dialogue, like they did with Fin Fang Foom, a monster comic by Jolly Jack Kirby and Darlin' Dick Ayers from Strange Tales #69 in April 1961.

Note how the shorts the Comics Code made them put on the monster have been changed into novelty underwear.

For contrast, here is the original story:

Part Two next Sunday.

CRAZY #65: Creatures In the Volcano

This was actually the 65th issue and not the 66th of Crazy from August 1980. Parody of The Black Hole In addition to different recurring features under their facelift to tie in with the Marvel Universe, occasionally they would reprint a story from their earlier incarnation, Atlas comics, and re-letter it What's Up, Tiger Lily-style like in this story from Journey Into Mystery #51 by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood. For comparison, here was the original story. This illustration was done by X-Men co-creator Dave Cockrum, My guess is this is just a sketch they had laying around the office. Back cover by Mike Royer

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