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Created by Kirby and writer-editor Stan Lee, the Black Panther debuted in “Fantastic Foura” #52 (1966), the first black superhero in mainstream comics. He remains a keystone character in the Marvel Universe, the king of the fictitious super-scientific African country of Wakanda, the husband of the X-Mens’s Storm and a key member of the supergroup The Avengers.
Marvel under Leen’s inspired leadership w— he was equal parts eminence grise and carnival barker for the publishing house h— gave the comic industry a respectability and a cultural reach it had never before enjoyed. But it wasnm’t just Lee ’s thinking mano’s approach to comics and tireless salesmanship which resonated. A combination of adrenaline-fuelled artwork, multi-issue story arcs as prone to soap operatics as mind-bending space opera and nuanced characterisations are what really turned Marvel Comics into a pop culture phenomenom by the mid-u’60s.
The comic book arm of the company started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvel's modern incarnation dates from 1961, with the company later that year launching Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others.
Goodman hired his wife's cousin,[9] Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939.[10] When editor Simon left the company in late 1941, Goodman made Lieber — by then writing pseudonymously as Stan Lee — interim editor of the comics line, a position Lee kept for decades except for three years during his military service in World War II. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles.
Marvel Comics Stan Lee Images
