Fantastic Four
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Fantastic Four Annual #1 (1963)
View post: Fantastic Four Annual #1 (1963)Fantastic Four Annual #1 turns Atlantis from a piece of Namor’s past into an entire world as Marvel shows us where it’s been—and where it’s going.
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Strange Tales #112 (September 1963)
View post: Strange Tales #112 (September 1963)Strange Tales #112 brings Golden Age superhero storytelling into the Marvel Age as Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel takes a turn writing the Human Torch.
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Fantastic Four #18 (September 1963)
View post: Fantastic Four #18 (September 1963)Fantastic Four #18 brings back the Skrulls and introduces the Super-Skrull as Lee and Kirby continue turning their rapidly evolving superhero comic into the Fantastic Four readers will recognize for decades.
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Fantastic Four #17 (August 1963)
View post: Fantastic Four #17 (August 1963)Fantastic Four #17 may be overstuffed, but Doctor Doom continues to separate himself from the pack as Marvel’s premier villain in 1963.
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Strange Tales #110 (July 1963)
View post: Strange Tales #110 (July 1963)Strange Tales #110 expands Marvel in two directions, building on its growing superhero world while Doctor Strange opens the door to something darker, stranger, and completely new.
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Fantastic Four #16 (July 1963)
View post: Fantastic Four #16 (July 1963)Fantastic Four #16 is a reminder that even Marvel’s less polished stories could introduce ideas that would shape the universe for decades to come.
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Strange Tales #109 (June 1963)
View post: Strange Tales #109 (June 1963)Strange Tales #109 captures Marvel in the early ’60s, caught between the anthology stories of its past and the bigger ideas shaping its future.
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Fantastic Four #15 (June 1963)
View post: Fantastic Four #15 (June 1963)Fantastic Four #15 shows Marvel no longer has to dust off an old anthology plot to fill an issue. The characters themselves have become the attraction.
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Strange Tales #108 (May 1963)
View post: Strange Tales #108 (May 1963)Strange Tales #108 is another reminder that Marvel hadn’t completely left its anthology roots behind.
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Fantastic Four #14 (May 1963)
View post: Fantastic Four #14 (May 1963)Fantastic Four #14 isn’t just another adventure. It marks another important step in Marvel’s evolution, with storylines carrying over, characters continuing to grow, and the Fantastic Four beginning to feel like the stars of an ongoing saga rather than a series of standalone stories.