BlackentheBorg
Banned
Legend has it that The Fantastic Four, Marvel's benchmark in it's revolutionary comics line, spawned from a golf game between publisher Martin Goodman and DC's Jack Liebowitz (or Irwin Donenfeld, history wears out as time progresses..). After listening to Liebowitz/Donenfeld brag about the recent success of the new Justice League of America title, Goodman tasked editor Stanley Martin Lieber (pen name "Stan Lee") to create his own 'team of superheros' series.
And as the legend goes, Lieber went home to his wife and said he was going to quit, the stresses of competition and a dying industry weighing heavy on his shoulders. But his wife Joan convinced him otherwise, telling him to do it "how he wanted to". And so it was Stan Lee conceived The Fantastic Four.
But what if Lieber didn't listen to his wife? What if he just couldn't be bothered and quit the next day like he wanted? What would happen to a comics world without Marvel's first family (and subsequent other revolutionary characters), a comics world with DC as the undisputed kingpin?
And as the legend goes, Lieber went home to his wife and said he was going to quit, the stresses of competition and a dying industry weighing heavy on his shoulders. But his wife Joan convinced him otherwise, telling him to do it "how he wanted to". And so it was Stan Lee conceived The Fantastic Four.
But what if Lieber didn't listen to his wife? What if he just couldn't be bothered and quit the next day like he wanted? What would happen to a comics world without Marvel's first family (and subsequent other revolutionary characters), a comics world with DC as the undisputed kingpin?
