I found an earlier cover appearance from Jarvis.

I’ll give you some clues-

1) It’s from 1977

2) It is not from THE AVENGERS comic.

3) It’s not from a comic featuring an Avenger (at least up until February of this year anyway).

4) Jarvis is unconscious on the cover.

Answer after the click–

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=30947&zoom=4

I thought you would be the only other person to care–

Old thread reviver.

Of course he can miss. Just because his eyebeams emit light, it doesn’t mean they ARE light. If I turn a flashlight on and throw it at you, you can get out of the way, even if the actual light it makes touches you. Sure, it moves fast, but not light speed.

Quite a few people felt it was too serious/depressing of an event to happen in a superhero comic.

Boy, that sounds familiar…

I bought it for Doc Ock–but the story was quite touching.

Makes me wonder if Byrne knew anyone who had a miscarriage?

i think i still have #19 around somewhere, featuring Darwyn Cooke flaunting much more overt Kirby accents than his current style.

Did you like it?”

Yeah. It was the first time I’ve re-read it since I bought it in 1984. It’s funny how I remember the last page so well after all these years. I’m re-reading all my FFs (I stopped collecting them at 299 and recently purchased 300 to finish the storyline when I get there)and am surprised by the inconsistency in Byrne’s art thru this run. His inking himself started out OK and improved for a while, but then he started using a Sharpie to ink and that looked horrible until he went back to better pens and brushes a year or so before 267, but then by the time 267 rolls around his art seems to be taking a downturn again. To me, it doesn’t look much like early Byrne anymore, except on She-Hulk, who looks great. I’d have to say that inking himself was a mistake. Sinnott would not have worked, but wasn’t there someone at Marvel who could have complimented Byrne’s pencils besides Austin?

1) Where, exactly, do the eyebeams come out of? I’ve always presumed the iris/pupil area (ie, not the entire eye, but where it’s focused on), based on the fact that he can control the direction without moving his head (or, at least, that’s the impression we get from the comics.) So he does target whatever he’s looking directly at.

2) How fast does the beam travel? This is the critical point–if the beam traveled at the speed of light, he’d never miss, because whatever he’s looking at would be instantaneously struck. But since it’s described as a “force beam”, and not a beam of electromagnetic energy, we can presume that it travels at sub-light speeds–and thus, anything moving faster than the beam travels would be there when he fired, but not when the beam arrived. So he’d have to anticipate his targets to hit.

Voila.

I’m regretting it before I even ask it, but…
Where was she between the time she miscarried in Byrne’s run and was brought back (presumably years later?)
(and why was this a better idea than just giving Sue and Reed a new child? Were they happy with what Franklin had done, or did they beat him around the head for making them go through years of misery?)

I guess it depends on whether Cyclops’ blasts shoot from his pupils or just his eyes. Former, he’d have impeccable aim; latter, he’d be limited to where he turned his head, which makes it harder to aim. The other problem with the idea of the blasts coming from his pupils is that would mean that his blasts would always be huge in the dark and tiny in the bright sun.

No it hasn’t. That kid’s still dead. Valeria is Reed and Sue’s third child.

No sir. She is the miscarried second child. Franklin used his powers to save her.

Note that it has been even since been retconned!”

No it hasn’t. That kid’s still dead. Valeria is Reed and Sue’s third child.

What’s amazing to me is that I’ve read one comic today: Fantastic Four 267.

That IS really freaky.

Did you like it?

How exactly does one disagree “with the idea of Sue having a miscarriage”? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

Quite a few people felt it was too serious/depressing of an event to happen in a superhero comic.

Note that it has been even since been retconned!

Some of them had already become professionals, but were still “green”.

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