Wizard: The Stan & Jack Show

Wizard Entertainment - Jim McLauchlin on Kirby & Lee: "The two most important characters in the Marvel Universe are not creations of pen and paper, but rather of flesh and blood. Their names are Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Stan, the writer, poured the steel, while Jack, the artist, pounded the rivets that built the framework of the Marvel U over the course of their 10-year partnership. And their greatest architecture was a gleaming skyscraper of 108 stories—102 consecutive issues and six Annuals—called Fantastic Four. It was Lee and Kirby’s FF #1 that launched the Marvel Universe in 1961. Everything that Marvel Comics has become today has poured out of that structure; can be seen from that vantage point."