It’s the comic that started the Marvel Age of Comics! It

turned the publisher that had been known as Timely and

Atlas (amongst other various and sundry names) into what

we know today as Marvel Comics and in turn Marvel

Entertainment. This is where it all started after a

conversation with DC’s Jack Liebowitz, Martin Goodman

turned his nephew, Stan Lee, down a history making path

with comics genius Jack Kirby. Discover the roots of

Marvel Comics in the fantasy and horror stories that were

Marvel’s bread and butter before this landmark issue-

Fantastic Four #1.

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can find me on Twitter @MattB_Lloyd and at

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news stories.

You can also check out my chapter in “Politics in Gotham:

The Batman Universe and Political Thought.”

https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Gotham-Universe-

Political-Thought/dp/3030057755

And:

“Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer

the World?”

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Panther-Philosophy-

Blackwell-

Culture/dp/1119635845/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2F69N3WJBZM

F3&keywords=what+can+wakanda&qid=1642053514&spr

efix=what+can+wakanda%2Caps%2C256&sr=8-1

Links

Jack Liebowitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Liebowitz

Superheroes for Dummies

https://www.superdummy.co.uk/geekguide/

Superheroes for Dummies- Fantastic Four

https://www.superdummy.co.uk/superheroes-for-dummies-

fantastic-four/

Marvel Comics before the Fantastic Four

https://neotextreview.com/culture/tales-that-astonished-a-

brief-history-of-early-marvel-monster-comics/

https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Fantasy-Omnibus-

Jack-

Kirby/dp/130292270X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2V66PVSI63NGS

&keywords=amazing+adult+fantasy&qid=1661968496&sp

refix=amazing+a%2Caps%2C552&sr=8-1

Fantastic Four at Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fantastic+four+marvel+mast

erworks&crid=1O83KGH5F4FWX&sprefix=fantastic+fou

r+marvel%2Caps%2C115&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_21

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fantastic+four+epic+collecti

on&crid=3OJQT80JT28GX&sprefix=fantastic+four+%2C