10 Amazing Stan Lee Comics Marvel Fans Must Read

When the Silver Age is thought of, readers typically think of Batman being turned into a kid by magic fruit from vegetable-based aliens. The Fantastic Four, in their own unique way, changed the era completely.

Instead of outlandish and wacky adventures, they would be grounded, even when dealing with aliens or mole men, and each member of the group would have flaws, with each issue being driven by its characters, as opposed to action on its own.

"If this be Doomsday!" - published over the course of three issues in Fantastic Four #48, #49 and #50 respectively - could be considered a decompression of Silver Age suppression, and though there are conflicting statements on who truly created the Fantastic Four, there is no 'or' when it came to the script. Stan knew how to write what he wanted to read.

This three-part introduction of Galactus introduced so much, and exploded the cosmic territory of Marvel as a whole. Similar to the build from Strange Tales and the intro to Dormammu, these issues from Fantastic Four turned the dial all the way up to 11 and had so much going on that, in the letter pages relating that came afterwards, people were actively showing their concern that doomsday was coming, so engrossing was the arc in question.