FANTASTIC FOUR #100

I am going to assume that Kirby just did not have his heart into the book at this point. He obviously knew some time before he started work on the book that he was going to be leaving Marvel behind to head over to DC where he would soon create an entire new universe: his Fourth World saga.

You would have thought that he'd have wanted to write and illustrate a Herculean book for the 100th issue of FF. In those days, how many men had created, written, and illustrated 100 straight issues of a single superhero title?

But he was chafing under the conditions at Marvel and had opted to leave. So I've always figured that the 100th issue of FANTASTIC FOUR was just a shade of what it would have been if he'd not been robbed of the credit that should have been his.

My very high grade personal copy of FANTASTIC FOUR #100. I usually don't buy copies that are close to mint condition for my collection, but sometimes I end up with them. This was just such a situation.