Fantastic Four #31, page 1
Fantastic Four #31: Reed's Stretchy Body 85
Written by: Stan Lee, The Man With The Talented Typewriter!
Illustrated by: Jack Kirby, The Man With The Power-Packed Pencil!
Inked by: Chic Stone, The Man With The Panoramic Paint-Brush!
Lettered by: S. Rosen - The Man With The Leaky Lettering Pen!
Fantastic Four #31 opens as we see, with strange tremors causing chaos at the top of the Baxter Building. And what tremors - hurling Ben's chair into the air several feet, and propelling a table lamp at speed across the room. One hopes that at some point following this issue, Reed commission a full structural survey of the Baxter Building!
What I love about this stretchy moment is the complete redundancy of it. Reed has stretched his neck forward and around to the right just to avoid the lamp... that was nowhere near his head in the first place! Never has the phrase 'wind your neck in' been more appropriate...
Check out our coverage of Fantastic Four #31 on our thirty-fifth episode: House of the Fallen Storm