While still shy of their peak, Lee and Kirby are starting to get a feel for the new rooms they have discovered in the language of comics.

The Marvel Age of Comics expands as the world explodes with ideas and an increasing development of a shared universe. With appearances from the Hulk, Ant-Man, Namor, Doctor Doom, and Willy Lumpkin. Still, these are objective classic issues with the Hulk meeting the Thing for the first time, the creation of the Red Ghost, the Watcher, Rama-tut the Pharaoh, the Super Skrull, the Atlanteans, and Molecule Man.įantastic Four 11-20, Annual #1 (1962-1963)įirst Appearances of the Impossible Man, the Red Ghost and his Super Apes, the Watcher, the Blue Area of the Moon, the Mad Thinker and his Android purloined from Reed’s workshop, the Super-Skrull, Rama-Tut (Kang the Conqueror), and the Molecule Man. The issue seems to be resolved in the Annual, but if you know anything about the Fantastic Four, the issue continues until the Invisible Girl becomes the Invisible Woman. Fantastic to drop her like a bad luck penny, coated in poop. In the intervening years, Sue has become a very powerful character in her own right, but back then I wanted Mr. In fact, this was such a source of consternation even way back in 1963 that issue #11 attempts to argue for the times that she actually helped the team defeat a villain. One of my major concerns is the constant uselessness of the Invisible Girl who other than behave as a traitor to the team with her apparent pining for Namor the Submariner contributes very little to the first few stories. Stan Lee wrote them, Jack Kirby drew them with a little help from Dick Ayers and Steve Ditko, with lettering by Art Simek, Sam Rosen, and Ray Holloway. 2 of the Fantastic Four collecting issues #11-19, and Annual #1 of the comic. Of course in 1963, during the second year of the 'World's Greatest Comic,' they were still figuring it out. You get the job done, and then when there's a respite, then you storm off. When you love the people around you, you get mad, you scream, you cry, but you don't abandon them. Sure, they love each other, but in almost every issue somebody storms off like a whiny and if I were to be honest, occasionally my siblings would storm off, but that was rare. The Storm-Grimm-Richards family was dysfunctional AF. I get that they are the 'First Family' and as a member of a family that owned a comic shop where Dad owned it, Mom had a kiosk for family entertainment, and I managed my younger siblings, you would think that I would love it, but I didn't. I have to admit that the Fantastic Four has never been one of my favored comic titles.

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