Stan Lee

"From Stan Lee, the pop culture legend behind Marvel's The Avengers, Black Panther, X-Men, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, and Iron Man, comes a major literary event featuring two heroic teenagers-one born w330 ith extraordinary gifts, one unwillingly transformed. Together they can change the world . . . or put it in the destructive hands of a danger beyond imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

This anthology contains twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man's publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre--by insisting that with great power there must also come great responsibility.

Throughout the 1960s, the Fantastic Four doubled as the flagship title and the creative laboratory of the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced dozens of new characters and concepts in its pages, while expanding the emotional bandwidth and visual vocabulary of the super hero genre with every issue. This collection gathers some key tales from Lee and Kirby's lengthy tenure--from their first experiments in generic hybridity to the remarkable...

Read the amazing stories that gave birth to your favorite super heroes in the Mighty Marvel Masterworks! Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and their Marvel Bullpen friends invented an exciting new approach to comic books. Together, they created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers and many more of the greatest super heroes ever! The Marvel Masterworks present each character's adventures form the very beginning. --Back cover.

Collects the earliest adventures of The Fantastic Four, the superhero group composed of Mr. Fantastic, the Thing, the Human Torch, and the Invisible Girl, four ordinary humans who gained extraordinary powers during a lab accident.

"Thanks to none other than Tony Stark, a new scientific research station for the teenage heroes of the Marvel Universe has just been completed - and Spider-Man just got an invitation to join! Working alongside some of your favorite faces from the MU, a whole bunch of awesome new gadgets, and with Iron Man keeping an eye on them, surely everything's going to go great, right?"-- Provided by publisher

Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong, and Wanda Maximoff.

Celebrate the astonishing legacy of the Ant-Man -- with every hero who ever donned the helmet! Reacquaint yourself with Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, during his early days as a costumed hero! Join the irredeemable Eric O'Grady on an untold adventure set during the events of SECRET INVASION! And in the present day, reconnect with Scott Lang as he tries to stop the villainous Black Ant from freeing the killer android Ultron from captivity! But in...