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LEE, Stan (b. 1922) and Jack KIRBY (1917-1994). The Fantastic Four #1. New York: Marvel Comics, 1 November 1961.
4°. Pencilled by Jack Kirby, inked by Dick Ayers and Christopher Rule, colored by Stan Goldberg, lettered by Artie Simek. Original pictorial wrappers, cover art by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Dick Ayers. (Complete grading and condition report available on request.)
A FLARE IS SEEN IN THE SKY ABOVE CENTRAL CITY. IT READS: “THE FANTASTIC FOUR!”
Created in response to DC Comic’s Justice League, The Fantastic Four soon became the premier superhero team. It was the first comic to introduce a new realism into the genre, the first superhero team created by Lee and Kirby and the first team title produced by Marvel Comics. This series launched Marvels’ rise in the 1960s from subsidiary house to dominance in the genre. The Fantastic Four provided Lee his opportunity to redefine his career, and in so doing to redfine popular culture: "For just this once, I would do the type of story I myself would enjoy reading.... And the characters would be the kind of characters I could personally relate to: they'd be flesh and blood, they'd have their faults and foibles, they'd be fallible and feisty, and — most important of all — inside their colorful, costumed booties they'd still have feet of clay” (Stan Lee, Origins of Marvel Comics, 1975). The team, which Lee elsewhere has called “heroes with hangups”, did not conceal their identities-- and so their public and private personas overlapped and created a new relationship with the public.
4°. Pencilled by Jack Kirby, inked by Dick Ayers and Christopher Rule, colored by Stan Goldberg, lettered by Artie Simek. Original pictorial wrappers, cover art by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Dick Ayers. (Complete grading and condition report available on request.)
A FLARE IS SEEN IN THE SKY ABOVE CENTRAL CITY. IT READS: “THE FANTASTIC FOUR!”
Created in response to DC Comic’s Justice League, The Fantastic Four soon became the premier superhero team. It was the first comic to introduce a new realism into the genre, the first superhero team created by Lee and Kirby and the first team title produced by Marvel Comics. This series launched Marvels’ rise in the 1960s from subsidiary house to dominance in the genre. The Fantastic Four provided Lee his opportunity to redefine his career, and in so doing to redfine popular culture: "For just this once, I would do the type of story I myself would enjoy reading.... And the characters would be the kind of characters I could personally relate to: they'd be flesh and blood, they'd have their faults and foibles, they'd be fallible and feisty, and — most important of all — inside their colorful, costumed booties they'd still have feet of clay” (Stan Lee, Origins of Marvel Comics, 1975). The team, which Lee elsewhere has called “heroes with hangups”, did not conceal their identities-- and so their public and private personas overlapped and created a new relationship with the public.