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Cutaways of Fantastic Four's Baxter Building
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, December 14, 2007 10:24 AM permalink
Arglebargle! lovingly compiled a bunch of cutaway drawings of the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building.
One of the great things about the Fantastic Four comics was all the super-nutty Kirby gizmos and gadgets. Crazy stuff --like James Bond gear on steroids and acid! And talk about high maintenance... the team needed enough space for a Fantasti-car, a Pogo Plane, a Fantasti-Copter, a Private Passenger ICBM, an Observatory, an entrance to the negative zone, a computer room, a chemical lab, a photo analysis lab, a projection room, a gymnasium, trophy room and living quarters (just to name a few).Link
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#1 posted by kuanes , December 14, 2007 10:44 AM
Of course, the best part is Torch's "Asbestos Room." Keep inhaling that stuff, Johnny!
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#2 posted by Moon , December 14, 2007 10:53 AM
I've got to get off the internets. I read that as "Inside the Baxter blog"
Sheesh.
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#3 posted by Father Brown , December 14, 2007 11:03 AM
I don't see any bathrooms.
Do superheroes go to the bathroom?
Maybe that's what the "biological research lab" is for!
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#4 posted by pauldrye , December 14, 2007 11:09 AM
@3: Warren Ellis had Invisible Woman ask the Thing that of him particularly. His answer? "You don't wanna know."
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#5 posted by Anonymous , December 14, 2007 11:14 AM
To Father Brown:
The Thing doesn't poop. Have you met a rock that poops? Q.E.D.
The Human Torch just burns his poop.
The Invisible Woman's poop is invisible, and she's a girl, so it doesn't smell. Therefore, no one minds if it just lies around.
As for Mr. Fantastic, well... what do you think the rocket runs on?
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#6 posted by glugenwog , December 14, 2007 11:15 AM
The rocket exhaust empties into the river? Someone call the EPA, I think there's a new candidate for a Superfund site.
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#7 posted by JohnnyWeird , December 14, 2007 11:25 AM
I'm a long-time fan of the FF, and this was a particularly fun treat for me. Thanks!
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#8 posted by MacBastard , December 14, 2007 11:35 AM
So Sue and Johnny commute from the suburbs? That could be an interesting train ride.
"Attention passengers! There will be a slight delay this morning as Galactus has decided to devour Earth, starting with this rail line. We apologize for any inconvenience."
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#9 posted by webted , December 14, 2007 11:37 AM
I have this issue... FF Annual #3
The best part?
Jack Kirby's autograph on page 1!
It's kind of sad it's just been sitting in storage for over 25 years...
Oh yeah, the bathrooms are on the other side.
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#10 posted by Infinite Decay , December 14, 2007 11:42 AM
This is really cool. But did anyone else find it strange that the cutaway shows that there are different rooms on the adjacent sides of the corner of the building shown? It looks like the different rooms occupy the same space -- for example the electronic lab and biological research lab, or the gymnasium and the telestar monitor room.
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#11 posted by cbarreto , December 14, 2007 11:42 AM
The most disturbing thing about these cutaways is that they call attention to ICBM silos hidden inside buildings in urban areas.
Not a thing that a rational government would do but... where can we find rational governments anyways ???
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#12 posted by fancycwabs , December 14, 2007 12:09 PM
Anybody who'd put the garage and storage facilities in the penthouse isn't quite the brilliant mind he pretends to be.
Also, "sending?" Was this in the days before "transmission" was invented?
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#13 posted by lightrocker , December 14, 2007 12:16 PM
Awww... another favorite cutaway
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Gotta have sharks
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#14 posted by License Farm , December 14, 2007 12:46 PM
Zorak finds the coolest stuff.
Back in the early '90's heyday of technical manuals (spearheaded of course by Star Trek, the technobabbler's wet dream), Marvel published books with the specs of Xavier's School for Gifted Youths, Stark Industries and the Punisher's arsenal. Is it still escapism when you have to work so hard to make it tangible in your mind?
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#15 posted by Drhaggis , December 14, 2007 12:51 PM
I predict that the "Giant Map Room" will be the must-have specialty room for 2008.
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#16 posted by zenhammond , December 14, 2007 1:15 PM
Why aren't the FF referred to as underwear perverts?
I thought that was standard operating Boing Boing procedure.
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#17 posted by Anonymous , December 14, 2007 1:28 PM
I've got a ton of old comics with similar cutaways of the Batcave and the Fortress of Solitude. Also worth checking out is the book TV Sets in which an architect and TV junkie created blueprints for the Brady Bunch house, the penthouse apartment on Diff'rent Strokes, etc. Good stuff.
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#18 posted by webted , December 14, 2007 1:44 PM
I want to know what Ted Baxter ever did to get a building named after him?
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#19 posted by eclectro , December 14, 2007 1:48 PM
I have a couple of problems with this. First, the super-hero rooms are more like closets. Really, if I was a superhero, I'd demand better digs because of all the hard world-saving work that I was doing. Second, I find the ICBM problematic. Pumping toxic exhaust gases in the river just doesn't seem cool. Also, ICBM's tend to be one-off, often inaccurate, and probably very little leg room for a super hero. I think a scramjet would be far more utilitarian and eco friendly. Also, this looks like it requires a large support staff. But I realize that this is sixties era tech, so these things would not have mattered then. But surely there should be a library next to the map room?
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#20 posted by devophill , December 14, 2007 1:48 PM
Great post. Kinda reminds me of the one my good pal Bully, The Little Stuffed Bull made a couple of months ago.
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#21 posted by Chris Tucker , December 14, 2007 2:55 PM
What must it have been like, before the FF bought the Baxter Building, for the poor sod who was the rental agent for the Baxter Building!
Can you imagine what it must have been like, trying to get people to rent office space there?
Every other month, the Skrull are ripping it from the very bedrock and hurling it into space, or Doctor Doom is using some new energy projector to melt it into slag or Iron Man stops by to schmooze with Reed and The Mandarin shows up to wreak vengence upon Tony Stark, yet again.
Sure, it's only $5.00 per square foot, an incredable bargain for Manhattan, but Jeebus! It's the frigging BAXTER BUILDING!
And what about the other buildings in the neighborhood? Man, Damage Control must have had retainers from EVERYONE!
If the FF had only moved to the World Trade Center, those planes wouldn't have gotten within a mile of the WTC before the tractor beams snagged them in midair.
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#22 posted by stevemars , December 14, 2007 3:29 PM
'...Headquarters of the most colorful super-hero combo the civilised world has ever known!'
So is there a super-hero combo that we've never heard of, in the jungle somewhere?
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#23 posted by Bob , December 14, 2007 3:32 PM
What I love is in one cutaway they have an Ammo Room. Just for ammo. And in a couple the rocket exhaust is vented into deep places in the earth, rather than the river. Might be one reason Mole Man was so upset! And who in the world would want to ride in an ICBM type missile??
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#24 posted by Anonymous , December 14, 2007 4:00 PM
In New York's real estate market, this thing would have been converted to condos years ago. Hopefully they would keep the amenities intact.
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#25 posted by SFSlim , December 14, 2007 4:01 PM
Quite pleased to see that I'm not the only Happy Mutant who uses "ArgyBargy" (or variations upon it) as a multi-purpose exclamation. It just has that sound, evidently.
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#26 posted by Moon , December 14, 2007 5:45 PM
WebTed, if was named after Mr. B, Hazel's boss!
/If you get that one, go lie down, you are too old to be up this late.
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#27 posted by Jack , December 14, 2007 6:32 PM
My favorite Fantastic Four issue is issue #12. When the Sub-Mariner devises a scheme to defeat the FF once and for all. He went to the bottom of the sea, gathered up riches and BOUGHT the Baxter Building so he could EVICT THE FANTASTIC FOUR!!!
Now that's devious!
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#28 posted by Halloween Jack , December 14, 2007 7:51 PM
Kids, kids--remember, this is New York in the 60s and 70s. Emptying rocket exhaust into the Hudson or East River only would have made them cleaner.
Bathrooms? Two words: Negative Zone. Ever wonder why Blastaar and Annihilus were always so pissed off?
And I always did wonder what was on the side of the building that they didn't show. Probably the Rooms of Awesome Shit That They're Going To Show Next Month, Honest.
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#29 posted by chef , December 17, 2007 12:44 AM
@Halloween Jack: "And I always did wonder what was on the side of the building that they didn't show. Probably the Rooms of Awesome Shit That They're Going To Show Next Month, Honest."
Bathroom, bathroom, bathroom, quarry.
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Official Name
Baxter Building
Aliases
Fantastic Four headquarters
Location Details
Universe
Earth-616
Galaxy
Milky Way
Star System
Sol
Planet
Earth
Country
United States of America
State
New York State
City
New York City
Locale
Manhattan
First appearance
Fantastic Four Vol 1 #3
Contents
1 History
2 Characteristics
3 Notes
4 Trivia
5 See Also
6 Links and References
7 Recommended Readings
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History
The Baxter Building, located at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue, was the Fantastic Four’s original headquarters. It was a 35-story building located at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. While the popular belief is that the Baxter Building was built and entirely occupied by the Fantastic Four, in fact they were originally only tenants who rented the top five floors. The building was originally constructed in 1949 by the Leland Baxter Paper Company. The building's steel frame construction utilized the first application of "K bracing" in the world and is one of the strongest structures of its kind. Originally designed to accommodate pulp recycling machinery to serve the mid-Manhattan area, each floor was given a ceiling height of 24 feet.
When the Fantastic Four were first considering moving to New York City, Reed found the Baxter Building’s empty top five floors perfect for their needs. He bought that section of the building outright, though the Fantastic Four continued to pay monthly service fees. When the they were in a tight financial situation a year later, Reed sold the Fantastic Four’s floors back to the Baxter Paper Company. As tenants, the Fantastic Four had many problems with Mr. Collins, the building manager. Whereas Mr. Collins had originally been delighted that a real superhero team was moving into his building, he soon began to see the problems in such a situation. When Doctor Doom lifted the entire building into deep space, relations cooled between the manager and his tenants. Other tenants worried that their offices might become battlegrounds and, as their leases ended, many of the building’s original tenants did not renew. Nor did new tenants appear to fill the vacancies. In desperation Mr. Collins offered all tenants ironclad, 99-year leases with significant discounts in their rents.
Still, problems continued. Occasionally either the Thing or a foe would be driven downward through the building, tearing a shaft through floor after floor. Battles occurred on the outer walls of the building. Explosions were a common occurrence. No insurance company would write a policy on any organization maintaining offices in the Baxter Building.
Collins also discovered that losing the Fantastic Four as tenants would not solve his problems. During a period when the Fantastic Four had split up and vacated their headquarters, Collins discovered that no one would rent the their former headquarters. There was too great a fear that supervillains would attack those floors regardless of who now lived there.
Then one day Terrax disintegrated everything above the 32nd floor. Collins was fed up. He stormed into the remains of the headquarters and announced he was evicting the Fantastic Four. Reed suddenly exercised a lease option and bought the entire building outright. That was the last that was seen of Collins. As landlords, the Fantastic Four tried to be considerate of their tenants. They wished most of the tenants would voluntarily leave, but they realized they were required to honor Collins’ special leases. The final act in the Baxter Building’s history came when the second Doctor Doom sent the entire building once again into orbit, only Doom's short term successor this time blew up the building.
Fortunately, no one was in the building except for the Fantastic Four. Still, when the Fantastic Four returned to the empty foundation, they found angry tenants demanding action. Reed announced that he would establish an insurance pool to cover the tenants’ losses and to help them find new offices. Then he set about designing a new headquarters to be erected on the same site.
Characteristics
The Lobby
The ground floor contained Abe Shoenstein’s snack shop, an optometrist’s shop, a visitors’ center, the elevator bank, and the freight loading dock. The visitors’ center was as close as most people could get to the Fantastic Four; a multimedia show on the Fantastic Four’s history was shown hourly from 9 to 4. The floor directory listed building tenants such as Pierre Picolino (a famous abstract sculptor), the Ladies’ Canasta and Mah Jonng Society, and Fantastic Four Inc.
Elevators
Three elevators serviced floors floors 1 through 30. The fourth elevator was marked by the Fantastic Four’s insignia. This was the express elevator to floors 31 through 35, the Fantastic Four’s headquarters. The elevator could only be summoned by a solenoid activator such as were imbedded in the Fantastic Four’s belt buckles. Normally this elevator stayed on these floors and only descended to street level when summoned. On the way up, hidden scanners identified the passengers and checked them for hidden weapons or devices. If questionable material was found, the elevator would stop in midshaft until the Fantastic Four was prepared to deal with the intruder. All elevators doubled as freight elevators.
30th Floor
If a visitor chose to take one of the regular elevators, he was taken to the 30th floor. The bulk of the floor was occupied by the building’s mechanical systems (plumbing, ventilation, and elevator winches). Acoustic insulation kept the noise from affecting the Fantastic Four’s reception area. This floor also acted as a buffer zone to absorb damage from battles in the upper floors. It also contained the magnetic repellor system. This system was designed to lift the upper floors away from the rest of the Baxter Building; the theory being that this way the rest of the building could have been protected from a particularly damaging battle. The system was designed as a compromise to placate Collins, the building manager. It was controlled from the Computer Center on the 33rd floor.
Reception Area
All the typical visitor saw on the 30th floor was the Fantastic Four’s reception area. The visitor was greeted by Roberta, a usuform robot. Her visible half (above the waist) appeared to be an attractive blond in her 20s. Below the waist she was a pivoting arm attached directly to her desk. Roberta was tied directly to the Fantastic Four’s computer system and could monitor the entire building. The reception room was also filled with hidden scanners to probe visitors. If the visitor were hostile, the floor was rigged to deliver a stunning electrical shock. Once the visitor had been cleared, a panel opened to reveal a lift to the 31st floor.
31st Floor
31st Floor
The 31st floor contained the Fantastic Four’s living quarters. There were suites for the Reed and Sue, Ben, and Johnny; several guest rooms for other Fantastic Four members and the extended family, and the dining and living areas.
32nd Floor
32nd Floor
The 32nd floor contained more living areas, Alicia’s studio (when she was a resident), the medical lab, the library, and reference room.
33rd Floor
33rd Floor
The 33rd floor contained Reed’s laboratory. The floor plan changed constantly as Reed added additional experiments and devices. In the Computer Center was a lever for activating the magnetic repellors on the 30th floor.
34th Floor
34th Floor
The 34th floor could be considered the actual headquarters. The computer banks, monitor banks, communications center, and briefing room were all there, as well as the overflow from Reed’s laboratory below. The Astro-sciences section was tied in to SHIELD’s and Project: Starcore’s systems.
35th Floor
35th Floor
The 35th floor contained the hangars for the Fantastic Four’s various vehicles, storage space, and a machine shop capable of building or repairing vehicles. A reinforced door in the corner led to the launching silo for the Fantastic Four’s rocketship. The vehicles were on platforms that carried them around the floor and over to the launching hatch.
Roof Level
The Roof
The roof was flat and featureless. A large Fantastic Four insignia marked the retractable hatch for launching and landing vehicles. If a Fantastic Four vehicle approached, the hatch would open automatically. There were a series of observatory domes located at various spots on the roof. Originally a permanent dome was located on the corner opposite the rocket silo. The last dome was closer to the silo but retractable. The entire dome could be lowered through the floor to the 35th-floor hangar. This left the roof completely clear for action and eliminated the only hiding place for a trespasser. The observatory equipment included a computer-linked telescope and twin telescopic cameras.
Construction
Windows are 2-foot thick composites of various glasses and plastics which are mirrored on the outside. Solid, armored, exterior walls are also mirror-clad and are indistinguishable from transparent sections. The top five sections of the Baxter Building are completely airtight, all doors are airlocks. Complete environmental support, including atmosphere is provided by the area between elevators 2, 3, and 4 on all floors. The building's steel-alloy framework is rigid enough to be stood on one corner and not deform.
Stairs
While the fire stairs extended the length of the building, they were blocked by a Fantastic Four insignia marked door on floor 34. The door opened automatically from the inside or could be externally opened by a solenoid activator. Since the door was never used except in emergencies, its opening triggered alarms in the master control and computer systems. This prevented intruders from entering the Fantastic Four’s headquarters by way of the stairwell.
Security Systems
The Fantastic Four’s master computer controlled all locks involving the upper floors. Such locks could be manually operated or overridden by either the master control or the computer system. The computer system maintained visual, audio, biophysical, and electronic surveillance on every section of the building. The building was equipped with devices that could disrupt the functioning of a single targeted device or stop the functioning of all electrical machinery within the Baxter Building. This system could be activated by the computer, by Roberta, by someone in the control room on the 33rd floor, or by anyone who might punch the “panic buttons��? located in every room. If the button were pushed, the field would envelope the entire building.
Notes
No special notes.
Trivia
No trivia.
See Also
Appearances of Baxter Building (Chronological)
Appearances of Baxter Building (Unordered)
Location Gallery: Baxter Building
Fan-Art Gallery: Baxter Building
Links and References
None.
Recommended Readings
Fantastic Four #3 - First Appearance; Identified as the Fantastic Four's new headquarters.
Fantastic Four #6 - The entire building was launched into space by Doctor Doom, but was safely returned to Earth by the Sub-Mariner.
Fantastic Four #9 - Top five floors sold back to the Leland Baxter Paper Company
Fantastic Four #15 - Taken over by the Mad Thinker and his gang.
Fantastic Four #20 - Levitated off of its foundation by the Molecule Man; Restored by the Watcher.
Amazing Spider-Man #1
Amazing Spider-Man #5
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
Amazing Spider-Man #18
Amazing Spider-Man #19
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Saturday, December 08, 2007
Inside the Baxter Building
Behold -- The world-famous Baxter Building!One of the great things about the Fantastic Four comics was all the super-nutty Kirby gizmos and gadgets.Crazy stuff --like James Bond gear on steroids and acid!And talk about high maintenance... the team needed enough space for a Fantasti-car, a Pogo Plane, a Fantasti-Copter, a Private Passenger ICBM, an Observatory, an entrance to the negative zone, a computer room, a chemical lab, a photo analysis lab, a projection room, a gymnasium, trophy room and living quarters (just to name a few). Naturally, a Super-team with this much baggage needed an exceptional uh... "secret" base of operations. Where better, than the middle of Manhattan Island in NYC? (...yeah --good luck with that telescope, Stretcho.) Specifically floors 30 through 35 on the top of the Baxter Building.Within the confines of these 5 floors lay a virtual crime-fightin' and weird experimentin' complex the likes of which the world had never seen before! So large in scope, that it prompted several celebrated cutaway views of of the Building's insides --presumably to help the reader figure out exactly where all the action was taking place.I'd thought about doing a post like this last summer... but when I picked up issue #1 of Marvel's new Mythos Fantastic Four book last week and saw that the title artist Paolo Rivera had just done an updated cutaway, I knew the time was right.So, here --for the first time I'm aware of-- are ALL cutaways of the Baxter building to date!...featuring insane amounts of Photoshop restoration on the old versions by yours truly so they can be blown up big and still look great. All cleaned up from my own issues of the original books they appeared in, with the original (minus the yellowing) color schemes. Enjoy!While the F.F. had already defeated the Mole Man and the Skrulls,it wasn't until issue #3 that we got to see some Fantasti-car (known these days more commonly as the Flyin' Bathtub) and found out the secrets of the "Fantastic Four's Skyscraper Hide-Out!" This was the first time the Baxter Building and it's contents --at least the top two floors of it were diagrammed.It wasn't long though--just three issues in fact-- before Jack was at it again. From issue #6, here's a slightly more complete look at the top 5 floors of "the world's greatest office building".Here's Jack's third and final take (to my knowledge) on the FF's HQ innards...As it originally appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #3 ( this version was also printed in Black and White in the back inside cover of the 1975 over-sized Fantastic Four Treasury. I ran it too, back up a the top... And though on that printing there's a blurb with an allusion made to the then-current book's team of Len Wein and Rich Buckler doing an updated cutaway soon, I don't recall them actually getting around to it.A decade and over a hundred issues passed before anyone would attempt a new Baxter bldg pin-up, but after the big Gonzo blowout with Dr. Doom in issue #200, Keith Pollard and Longtime-inker Joe Sinnott were ready to tackle the project. Here's their version from Fantastic Four issue 201, December 1978.It would be 48 issues before anyone else would tackle the 5 story x-ray. Then, when John Byrne took over the book in 1981, he had Terrax destroy the the top 2 floors of the tower (and f-up the lower ones). The FF had to rebuild all 5 floors of their HQ --and once it was completed it was prime time to address the new changes. (Besides, more than anybody else outside of Stan and Jack, John got the FF and brought back a lot of what made the book fun to begin with --that is, before Shooter ruined it all with the Secret Wars books.) Here, from #249 is that cutaway.And the latest version...Paolo Rivera's aforementioned new version. Nice to see see Paolo's rife and realistic painterly approach to the material. The rest of the book looks like this too, so if you haven't picked it up you probably oughta.HAPPY HOLIDAYS!And a big tip of the hat goes out to Marvel Comics Group, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Keith Pollard, Joltin' Joe Sinnott, John Byrne and Paolo Rivera
posted by C. Martin Croker at 8:34 PM
10 Comments:
Robert Pope said...
What I always loved most about Byrne's take was the ductwork that takes the exhaust from the Pogo Plane and shoves it into the "sub-strata" beneath the earth's crust...kinda Reed's way of saying "Eat it, Mole Man!" Great post.
10:34 AM
Matthew I. Jenkins said...
Great post. I used to love stuff like that when I was a kid. It always inspired me to draw my own secret-layer cut-aways, which I would never have the patience to do now. btw, I really liked Secret Wars. You don't think God would look like David Hasslehoff?
2:45 PM
Matt said...
I used to love seeing these in the old Kirby FF digests! - mhblackmatte.blogspot.com
4:22 PM
Anonymous said...
The Well-Organized domain of the Fantastic Four - finally, it's all becoming clear!
7:13 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't forget the listing(s) in the Marvel Universe handbooks. More technical, less fun, I suppose.
8:15 PM
TexanInHippieland said...
Just discovered your site. Great post. Brings back many memories.And I must say that I LOVED seeing the MAD magazine cover with Frankenstein building the Alfred E. Neuman model. That was the first MAD magazine I ever had.And the Charles Lane post. Wow, what a career. Reminds me of the fact that my parents bought a house once lived in by Burt Mustin... another prolific character actor.But I'm rambling. I have you bookmarked and shall return.Thanks.
8:56 PM
Mikey said...
Don't get me wrong, I love this shizzle - but how the FREAK would they ever get the rocket back in its silo?
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David Campbell said...
You have done us a great service! Huzzah!
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Our Man Horn said...
Fantastic Four is why I became an infographics artist. Well, not really. But those cut-aways are pretty nice. Eliot R. Brown's contributions to the Official Handbooks of the Marvel Universe had a lot of impact on my career choice, too.http://www.cooljerk.com/hornographics.html
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mykalel said...
Great stuff. One question though - why, on the most recent cutaway, do Reed & Sue have separate bedrooms? Trouble on the domestic front maybe?(Also, where does Franklin sleep!)
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Fantastic Four HQ
This is cool. A cutaway of the fabled HQ of the Fantastic Four - The Baxter Building. This guy really has some time on his hands and I’m glad he does.
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mavericstud9 Says: March 28, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I wonder what is really there in New York ?There must several real at 42 street and madison avenue,New York,NY.Anyone know whats really there ?There must be a reason Stan Lee and Jack Kirby choose this locatiom.After all they could simply placed the Fantastic Four in the Empire State Building and make an omage to Doc Savage or put the whole at Reed Richards Rocket Research base in California .
