CREATOR - STORY

Name: Born as Stanley Martin Lieber. Later adapted Stan Lee as his legal name.
Personal dates: Born 1922 in New York, USA.
Other creations: Daredevil, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men.
Successors*: John Byrne, Steve Engelhart, Doug Moench, Walt Simonson.
Comments: Lee also worked as an editor for Marvel Comics.
 

CREATOR - GRAPHICS

Name: Jacob Kurtzberg (Jack Kirby).
Personal dates: Born 1917 in New York, USA. Died 1994 in California, USA.
Other creations: Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men.
Successors*: John Byrne, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walt Simonson.
Comments: Being one of the most influencial artists in the comic book history Kirby was often nicknamed The King.
* The series has had numerous successors, and the mentioned ones are just a few of the most well-known.

 

 

MAIN STORY
The series premiered in 1961.

Marvel Comics produced no comics with superheroes in the early 1960s, but following DC Comics' great success in that field, the publisher Marvin Goodman suggested that Lee invented a brand-new set of superheroes. The result was Fantastic Four who worked as a unit set on fighting crime. Periodically the characters have been supplied by other superheroes, but the original foursome is still intact today.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

Mr. Fantastic
(Reed Richards)
Invisible Woman
(Susan Storm)
Human Torch
(Johnny Storm)
The Thing
(Ben Grimm)

 

 

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