Marvel Fantastic Four For Dummies

I’ve mentioned several times before in earlier reviews that it was Marvel Comics Fantastic Four #1 that drew me into the world of Marvel Comics.

Up until that time Marvel (then Timely) existed by following trends: monsters, Westerns, war, romance, etc.).

It wasn’t until Marvel Editor Stan Lee (and the sole writer) was told by his boss to copy DC Comics’ successful Justice League Of America that things changed-drastically!.

Along with artist jack Kirby Stan created and wrote a comic book the way he wanted to do it and so was born the Fantastic Four and the beginning of a revolution in comic books.

In writer Justin Penistons’ and Wiley Brand’s new oversize softbound book: Marvel Fantastic Four For Dummies, comic book newbies and old veterans like myself are given a front-row seat to the creation of the Fantastic Four, an introduction to its many ground-breaking characters (including bad guys) and the universe-shattering locations and storylines that filled and still fill the pages of the Fantastic Four comic book.

A lot has changed over the decades and a lot remains the same.

Bold new ideas and concepts, tragedies and triumphs, members come and go and the best of the best FF stories are all in this book condensed down, to-the-point and complemented by killer art.

The FF members guess-starred in numerous other comic books over the years and other Marvel heroes have often trodden the pages of the FF comic book.

Visit the Negative Zone, travel to the stars, confront Galactus, meet the Inhumans, shrink to microscopic size and explore and witness hundreds of other worlds, dimensions and locations.

Is it any wonder Stan Lee dubbed the Fantastic Four comic book The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine!??

Psalms 34:4 - I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.