Книга: 1961 Comic Debuts: Fantastic Four, Justice League, Amazing Fantasy, Commando Comics

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Fantastic Four, Justice League, Amazing Fantasy, Commando Comics, Amazing Adventures. Excerpt: Amazing Adventures is the name of several anthology comic book series, all but one published by Marvel Comics . The earliest Marvel series of that name introduced the company's first superhero of the late-1950s to early-1960s period fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books . That same series also included the first comic book to be labeled 'Marvel Comics'. Ziff-Davis The first series titled Amazing Adventures was a 1950s science fiction anthology produced by Ziff-Davis and featuring painted covers. It ran for six issues, beginning c. 1950. with the first two issues being undated. Subsequent issues were dated June, August, and November 1951, and Fall 1952. Its artists included Murphy Anderson , Bernard Krigstein , and Don Perlin , and at least one issue ( #2) featured a cover painting by Alex Schomburg . Marvel Comics Amazing Adventures 1961 series Marvel's first series of this title premiered June 1961, and featured primarily science fiction and drive-in movie -style monster stories, virtually all drawn by the legendary comics artists Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko . Notably, its first issue introduced the supernatural monster-hunter Doctor Droom , Marvel's first Silver Age of Comic Books superhero . Droom had powers of telepathy and hypnotic suggestion taught him by a Tibetan lama who had requested that someone travel from the U.S. to give him medical attention (later retconned as the Ancient One , the same sorcerer who trained Doctor Strange ). More a monster-story appendage than a serious attempt at creating a three-dimensional character in the manner of the upcoming Spider-Man or Fantastic Four , Doctor Droom vanished into obscurity for years when the series was retitled ...