It began with the Stan Lee–Jack Kirby collaboration Fantastic Four, which with its oddball, flawed team of heroes, completely transformed the way people thought about comics as a medium.

Born Stanley Lieber in 1922, Lee was the former president of Marvel Comics Through Spider-Man, the X-Men and many other characters, the late Stan Lee ... collaborator Jack Kirby, Lee also created ...

In 1961, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby birthed the Marvel Age of Comics with The Fantastic Four #1. The issue introduced the quartet who would be bombarded by cosmic rays during an unsanctioned space ...