Description: Collects Fantastic Four #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 48, 49, 50, 51, and Fantastic Four Annual #6. It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels- as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. For the first time, these classic stories of some of the most iconic super heroes in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. Throughout the 1960s, The Fantastic Four doubled as both the flagship title and the creative laboratory of the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced dozens of new characters and concepts in its pages, while expanding the emotional bandwidth and visual vocabulary of the super hero genre with every issue. This collection gathers some key tales from Lee and Kirby's lengthy tenure-from their first experiments in generic hybridity through to the remarkable fusion of the cosmic and the quotidian that is the "The Galactus Trilogy." A foreword by Jerry Craft, and a scholarly introduction and a general series introduction by Ben Saunders offer further insights into the enduring significance of the Fantastic Four and classic Marvel comics. The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy Collects Fantastic Four #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 48, 49, 50, 51, and Fantastic Four Annual #6. It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels- as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. Throughout the 1960s, the Fantastic Four doubled as the flagship title and the creative laboratory of the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced dozens of new characters and concepts in its pages, while expanding the emotional bandwidth and visual vocabulary of the Super Hero genre with every issue. This collection gathers some key tales from Lee and Kirby's lengthy tenure-from their first experiments in generic hybridity to the remarkable fusion of the cosmic and the quotidian that is the "The Galactus Trilogy." A foreword by Jerry Craft and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of the Fantastic Four and classic Marvel comics.
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EAN: 9780143135838
UPC: 9780143135838
ISBN: 9780143135838
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Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Author: Lee, Stan
Book Title: Fantastic Four (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
Item Height: 2.6 cm
Item Length: 24.8 cm
Item Weight: 0.56 kg
Item Width: 17.4 cm
Language: English
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Artist/Writer: Dick Ayers, Stan Lee, Joe Sinnott, George Klein, Bill Everett, Frank Giacoia, Stan Goldberg, Sol Brodsky, Jack Kirby
Cover Artist: Jack Kirby
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Genre: Superheroes, Humor/Satire, Science Fiction
Publication Year: 2023
Character: Invisible Girl (Sue Storm), The Thing (Ben Grimm), The Invisible Girl (Sue Storm), Nelson (Death), Monster from Mars-Statue, Mole Man (Moleman) (Origin), Monsters of Monster Isle Rock Monster Guardian (Ugu) (Introduction), The Thing, Human Torch (Johnny Storm), The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Origin Retelling), Mr. Smith, Miracle Man (Villain, Introduction), French Army Pierre, Unnamed Soldiers, Tricephalous (Introduction, All Unnamed Here), Dorma (Introduction), Namor, The Invisible Girl, Karal, Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) (His Hand Only), Mister Fantastic, Mole Man (Moleman) (Introduction), Miracle Man (Flashback), Central City Police Department Pete, Carley (Death), Doctor Doom's Robot, Skrulls (Introduction), The Fantastic Four The Invisible Girl (Sue Storm), The Fantastic Four The Thing (Ben Grimm), Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Introduction, Origin), Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom), Miracleman, The Skrulls (Flashback), The Mayor of Central City, Doctor Doom (Villain), Ricardo Jones (Thing Imposter) (Death), Princess Fen (Also in Flashback to 1920), Emperor Tha-Korr (Unnamed), Dean Asher, Giganto (Death), Giganto (Introduction), National Guard Unnamed Members, Unnamed Members, Monster from Mars-Statue (Flashback), The Namor (Prince Namor) (Origin), Skrulls, Monsters of Monster Isle Giganto, Alicia Masters, Giganto (All Unnamed), Anderson, Leonard Mckenzie (in Narration Flashback to 1920 Only, Unseen), Willie Lumpkin (Introduction), The Ovoids (Flashback, Introduction), The Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)
Superhero Team: Fantastic Four
Series Title: Fantastic Four (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)
