Marvel Comics and 'The Fantastic Four'
In 1961 a new generation of comic-book super heroes with more credible characters, was launched in the US to great acclaim. We hear from Roy Thomas of Marvel Comics.
In 1961 a new generation of comic-book super heroes with more credible characters, was launched in the US to great acclaim. The 'Fantastic Four' was the creation of Marvel's writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. It propelled the company from a small division of a publishing company to a pop culture conglomerate. Ashley Byrne has been speaking to Roy Thomas, who began as a young writer at Marvel in the 1960s and rose to become its editor-in-chief.
(Photo: The Fantastic Four, first issue, Nov 1961. Credit: Marvel Comics)
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