Issue(s): Fantastic Four #29
Cover Date: Mar 64
Title: "It started on Yancy Street!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
Jack Kirby - Penciler
Chic Stone - Inker

Review/plot:
The Fantastic Four give the Red Ghost and his Super Apes another smackdown with the subtle help of the Watcher.

    

Kirby uses a rendered photo as a background image for one panel. It's kind of cool, i guess, but it's really jarring in relation to the rest of the book. This is the first time i've seen him do this but it'll start popping up more.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 2

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• The FF first fought the Red Ghost in Fantastic Four #13.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #21

Kirby's use of photo backgrounds made a huge hit at the time. This particular photo didn't reproduce at all well in my Marvel Masterworks reprint. There, it's almost completely black. Standard comic book printing methods in the mid-60s weren't much better, but readers still loved the photos, especially on the covers where the reproduction was a little better.

The use of drone aircraft for spying and attack purposes might seem like a relatively modern 21st century innovation, but one is featured prominently in this 1964 FF story by Kirby & Lee. (It Started on Yancy Street!)

This Wiki article traces them all the way back to 1849 (balloon bombs) and World War I (timed aerial torpedoes and pilotless aerial combat vehicles). The first scaled & remote-piloted vehicle is credited to an English TV star and model airplane hobbyist, in 1935.

Dead Wiki link - should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle#History - I probably forgot to include a quotation mark.