“Oh, I remember…Alt-function-7.”

Marvel editor Tom Brevoort provides the introduction to Fantastic Four: 65 Years of the World’s Greatest Comic Covers that does indeed reprint every single Fantastic Four cover from the beginning, in which he speaks fondly about a similar publication he encountered as a young’un. And while it seems strangely archaic to do something like this, in a world where all the covers are available for viewing digitally in one form or another. But that said, it is somehow strangely pleasing, almost soothing, to have all these covers reproduced at varying sizes, in chronological order. It’s almost visual ASMR. Most of the covers reprinted at larger sizes are accompanied by quotes from various creators (Stan Lee, John Byrne, Walt Simonson, etc.), plus a couple of movie folk, talking about why those particular ones are their favorites. There are a few new quotes, but they’re primarily from previously published sources. Which is fine, they all fit nicely in this collection. To gild the lily of the…