Lee & Kirby

Lee & Kirby Synopsis

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Fantastic Four #1 with this newbook about the two pop-culture visionaries who created the Fantastic Four, and adecade in comics that was more tumultuous and awe-inspiring than any before orsince. Calling on his years of research, plus new interviews conducted just forthis book (with Stan Lee, Flo Steinberg, Mark Evanier, Joe Sinnott, and others),regular Jack Kirby Collector magazine contributor Mark Alexander tracesboth Lee and Kirby's history at Marvel Comics, and the remarkable series ofevents and career choices that led them to converge in 1961 to conceive theFantastic Four.

It also documents the evolution of the FF throughout the 1960s,with previously unknown details about Lee and Kirby's working relationship, andtheir eventual parting of ways in 1970. With a wealth of of historicalinformation and amazing Kirby artwork, Stan Lee & Jack Kirby: The WonderYears beautifully examines the first decade of the FF, and the events thatput into motion the 1960s era that came to be known as the Marvel Age ofComics!