Fantastic Four
Thomas Sr. (Captain Collector)Last updated: 21 June 2019 approx. 3 min read
For die-hard Marvel comic fans, the Silver Age par excellence began in 1961 with the Fantastic Four. Well, actually 1956 is regarded as the official start. That was when, in the DC comic Showcase #4, the new Flash appeared for the first time. But in the end, they're just years, reference points. For Marvel enthusiasts it's simply easier to remember issue 1 of Fantastic Four.
Jack Kirby and Stan Lee modernised Marvel Comics back then by departing from the tried-and-tested formula of the monster books and trying their hand at superheroes. The competition at DC clearly showed that there was money to be made with this genre, and that's what it was ultimately about. Comics had to sell; they had to prove as profitable as possible on the newsstands.
The 4
The concept was relatively simple. A few years earlier at DC, Jack Kirby had already created the Challengers of the Unknown, four adventurers with different abilities and strengths who faced all kinds of dangers. Now all he and Stan Lee had to do was dream up the four new characters, breathe superhero powers into them and tell an origin story. That's all! Or is it?
After a failed trip into space and a hefty dose of cosmic rays, the four find themselves with strange abilities. Reed Richards is the super-intelligent egghead of the group and can stretch his body like rubber. He is Mr. Fantastic. Johnny Storm bursts into flame without burning up and becomes the Human Torch. His sister Sue can make herself invisible and from then on is Invisible Girl. And finally there's the gruff, grim old grouch Ben Grimm, who turns into a super-strong something. He is the orange mosaic rock monster Thing.
Dream team Kirby/Sinnott
The secret of the huge success of Marvel's First Family, as the four are affectionately known, lies in the mix of heroes and in the fact that they are real people with real problems, not just two-dimensional paper superheroes. On top of that comes the series' fantastic, inimitable art style, shaped in the mid-1960s by Jack Kirby and inker Joe Sinnott.
This stylistic continuity lasted for years and only ended with Jack Kirby's departure from Marvel in 1970. Kirby sent his pencils to Sinnott, who inked them and passed them on to the Marvel editorial office. The two only met in person years later, in 1975.
Incidentally, one of the most dazzling (literally!) characters in the Marvel Universe first saw the light of day in 1966 in the pages of the Fantastic Four comics (in issue 48): the Silver Surfer. Together with the eternally hungry world-devourer Galactus, the Surfer is Jack Kirby's own creation. He was later polished up and reshaped in character by the busy Stan Lee so that he would fit better into the Marvel Universe. Great as a comic, the four are still patiently waiting for a film adaptation that finally does them justice.
Did you know that in the first clash between the Fantastic Four and the almost all-powerful Galactus, the world-destroyer was finally put out of action with a mini weapon no bigger than a toy pistol? It was the Ultimate Nullifier!
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