On August 8,1961, brilliant Four #1 changed superhero comics forever, and yet it's barely a superhero comedian at all.
Legend has it the book was inspired by the success of rival DC's Justice League of America. That book is a superhero comedian through and through,and apparently its team of heroes inspired Marvel publisher Martin Goodman to query his top creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and to create a superhero team of their own. But while DC gathered its Justice League from their other superhero titles,Marvel was publishing no superhero books at that time.
So Lee and Kirby created a team from scratch. But springing from the minds of Lee, who was by all accounts terribly burnt out on comics at the time, and Kirby,who had done everything in comics, but was then the master of monsters, and brilliant Four #1 was a weird,dark superhero book, about a weird, or dark team
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Source: comicsalliance.com