In 1961 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created The Fantastic Four—a powerhouse super hero team revolutionary for their flaws and complexity—that kicked the comic industry into high gear. This volume reproduces the Four’s first 20 stories and charts how it became in Lee’s words “the world’s greatest comic m...

In 1961 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created The Fantastic Four—a powerhouse super hero team revolutionary for their flaws and complexity—that kicked the comic industry into high gear. This volume reproduces the Four’s first 20 stories and charts how it became in Lee’s words “the world’s greatest comic magazine.”