{"product_id":"fantastic-four-by-stan-lee-9780143135838","title":"Fantastic Four","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes \u003cem\u003eFantastic Four\u003c\/em\u003e #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 48, 49, 50, 51, and \u003cem\u003eFantastic Four Annual\u003c\/em\u003e #6. It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels—as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness, as meditations on the fluid nature of identity, and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the 1960s, the \u003cem\u003eFantastic Four\u003c\/em\u003e 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 fusion of the cosmic and the quotidian that is \"The Galactus Trilogy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA foreword by Jerry Craft and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of the \u003cem\u003eFantastic Four\u003c\/em\u003e and classic Marvel comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340786417900,"sku":"9780143135838","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26160363482238.jpg?v=1772168960","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/fantastic-four-by-stan-lee-9780143135838","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}