In terms of what would later become the world of Marvel Comics, the “Fantastic Four” was where it all began. While both Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were seasoned comics industry veterans by 1961, the start of “Fantastic Four” at the end of that year marked a distinct new era in the careers of both […]
I’d wanted to read these comics for years and the “Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel Masterworks – Volume 1” gave me that opportunity. Featuring restored reprints of the original stories and a crisp sewn binding, this book was beautiful. Most people associate the 1960s Nick Fury stories with writer/artist Jim Steranko. Yet, Mr. Steranko […]
The ‘classic’ 1960s “Silver Surfer” series was put out in two Marvel Masterworks volumes back in the 1990s and I was recently able to acquire and read both volumes. Between the two, they contained the full eighteen issues of that series. The stories age rather well compared to other comics in that mid-to-late 1960s era. Stan Lee mentioned […]