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Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventures: Lost Adventures by Stan Lee (Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure (2008)) Kindle & comiXology

by Stan Lee (Author), John Romita Jr. (Illustrator), Jack Kirby (Illustrator, Artist), Format: Kindle Edition
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Collects The Last Fantastic Four Story, Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure, Fantastic Four (1961) #296 & #543.

Stan's back, and he's brought the Fantastic Four with him! Stan Lee and Jack Kirby made pop-culture history during the 1960s with their landmark run on FANTASTIC FOUR. Unabridged for 102 consecutive issues, the legacy of their work together has influenced the imaginations of comic-book creators and pop-art innovators. And guess what? It's time to make room for a 103rd issue! A lost classic by Stan and Jack has made it into the hands of astonished FF fans everywhere! Featuring art by Kirby, much of which has never been seen by the public, this restoration project was finished off with scripting by Stan and inked by legendary FF delineator Joe Sinnott - marking a reunion of the dynamite combo that made the Marvel Age of Comics so scintillatingly super. Rounding out the contents are three other classic stories by Stan Lee that explore many different facets of the First Family and the universe they helped found. All have one thing in common: the heart, soul, wit and charm of Stan "The Man" Lee.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CYCKSNV
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (June 7, 2018)
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Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. Nevertheless: Having begun his career with wartime Timely Comics and staying the course throughout the Atlas era, Stan the Man made comic-book history with Fantastic Four #1, harbinger of a bold new perspective in story writing that endures to this day. With some of the industry’s greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men and more — forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. After an almost literal lifetime of writing and editing, Lee entered new entertainment fields and earned Marvel one opportunity after another. He remains one of Marvel’s best-known public representatives.

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Stanley Martin Lieber (Manhattan, Nueva York; 28 de diciembre de 1922 - Los Ángeles, California; 12 de noviembre de 2018), más conocido como Stan Lee, fue un escritor y editor de cómics estadounidense, además de productor y ocasional actor de cine. Es principalmente conocido por haber creado personajes icónicos del mundo del cómic tales como Spiderman, Hulk, Ironman, los 4 Fantásticos, Thor, los Vengadores, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, X-Men y Bruja escarlata, entre otros muchos superhéroes, casi siempre acompañado de los dibujantes Steve Ditko y Jack Kirby. El trabajo de Stan Lee fue fundamental para expandir Marvel Comics, llevándola de ser una pequeña casa publicitaria a una gran corporación multimedia. Todavía hoy, los cómics de Marvel se distinguen por indicar siempre «Stan Lee presenta» en los rótulos de presentación. También tuvo un programa televisivo en History Channel en donde buscaba superhumanos "reales".

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JP Fish
5.0 out of 5 stars One last tale to astonish! Utterly FANTASTIC! A+++++++++++++++++++++++!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2016
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As a faithful fan of the FF this Merry Marvel Marcher was ecstatic with this one last hurrah with Jack Kirby and the original creative force behind the Greatest Comic Book in the world. Now, for better or worse, my J. K. set is complete. Had the cover not been so oddly (unintentionally) deceptive I am sure I would have gotten it years sooner. I have fallen in love with the characters all over again, so I guess I'll be getting some of the Hickman hard bounds. I think I can get past the art and enjoy the stories now. Well, Stan. Unlike us, these stories never get old! Excelsior!
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N. Durham
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2008
Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventures isn't really much that you haven't seen before. However, what makes it as enjoyable and worthwhile as it is lies in the fact this hardcover features an unfinished issue of Fantastic Four from the legendary team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; an issue that features Kirby's pencils re-worked to fit Lee's story. Also featured here is an anniversary issue of the series, as well as The Last Fantastic Four Story one-shot by Lee and featuring artwork by the great John Romita Jr. As a whole, Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventures is an enjoyable hardcover collection that longtime FF fans will get much enjoyment out of, as nearly everything featured here manages to retain that sense of wonder and adventure that made the title take off in the first place way back when.
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Lee Kirby
3.0 out of 5 stars A collection of Stan Lee's later FF stories best suited for hardcore fans
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2017
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It's no accident that Stan Lee's name stands out in heavy block type on the cover of "Fantastic Four: Lost Adventures" from the names of his co-creators and even this collected edition's title, which is a misnomer. It's really a collection of Lee's later tales of the team he co-created, well after leaving regular writing duties behind.

This volume's only truly "lost" story is a reconstruction of what would have been co-creator Jack Kirby's final FF adventure, scheduled for Fantastic Four #102 but shelved because Lee supposedly found crafting a story around Kirby's pencils impossible. Shortly thereafter, Kirby left for DC, and a sliced, diced, and Cuisinarted version of Kirby's artwork was published later, as flashback material in issue #108, with additional artwork by John Buscema. Both Kirby's original artwork-with inking by Joe Sinnott and missing panels filled in by Ron Frenz-and the FF #108 version are collected here, along with the King's surviving uninked, unlettered pencil art and extensive accompanying margin notes. Neither the original version-"The Menace of the Mega-Men"-nor the rearranged version-"The Monstrous Mystery of the Nega-Man"-represents Lee at his best, but the real draw, so to speak, in both instances is Kirby's exaggerated, energetic artwork.

Second-place honors go to "Homecoming!," which Lee wrote from a plot by Jim Shooter for FF #296. This tale had two purposes: Celebrating the FF's 25th anniversary and resolving plot threads writer/artist John Byrne had left dangling with his departure two issues prior; namely, returning The Thing to the group. (He'd left two-and-one-half-years prior, in FF #265, and been replaced by She-Hulk.) "Homecoming" finds The Thing so awash in bitterness and self-pity that he retreats to Monster Island to live with Mole Man, the FF's first villain, so he can have someone to relate to. But Mr. Fantastic discovers that Mole Man is building a machine that will create a continent for himself, The Thing and other unattractive people to live on-at the expense of the entire Pacific coast. As slam-bang as anything Lee and Kirby created during their legendary partnership, it's written so that knowledge of prior, Byrne-written/drawn FF issues isn't necessary to understand the action, and despite art chores being divided among a total of 13 artists, it holds together visually as well.

More of that slam-bang quality would have helped "The Last Fantastic Four Story: World's End," with art by John Romita Jr. This tale finds the entire team wallowing in angst and contemplating retirement because they're aging and struggling financially when they're called upon to save Earth not from super-powerful villains, but from super-powerful good guys who believe they're protecting the universe by destroying humanity, which they see as a threat to galactic peace. But it reads better as cold typescript on a page, due largely to JRJR's stylized art, which is a taste I've never acquired. He needs more help from his inkers than other pencillers, and he's fared better with street-level heroes like Spider-Man and Batman than he does here with galactic-level heroes and threats. Both the finished story and Lee's plot, with notes to JRJR by editor Tom Brevoort, are included here.

Finally, it's Mr. Fantastic's turn to wallow in angst in "If This Be...Anniversary!," a lighthearted celebration of the FF's 45th anniversary. (Based on the evidence of this volume, having one or all of the team wallow in angst seems to be Lee's default starting point for FF stories.) He refuses to let the team help the military fight an invasion by the aforementioned Mole Man because he's upset that Marvel Comics hasn't properly honored the team on its anniversary. But Stan the Man rushes in to save the day by promising MM a cameo in the next Marvel movie. (He's still waiting.)

None of these tales is anywhere near the FF at its best, and the artwork is uneven, but Lee's familiarity with the characters he co-created, even after years away from regular scripting duties, and his gift for writing snappy, character-establishing dialogue are the storytelling threads connecting all of this volume's stories, and making them fun to read.

This collection's best suited for longtime, hardcore Fantastic Four fans who will find it entertaining despite its rough edges.
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Jarred Blackburn
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Four: Lost Adventures
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2018
The comic-book equivalent of a lost Beatles track! Together, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby produced 102 consecutive issues of Fantastic Four. But there was a 103rd story they'd begun in 1970, but never finished - until now! Working from copies of Jack's penciled pages, Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott reunite to complete the work they started almost four decades ago! Plus: The legendary writer and Fantastic Four co-creator joins forces with artist John Romita Jr. to tell his final story of the team that started the Marvel Age! Collecting Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure and The Last Fantastic Four Story, plus rare Stan Lee stories from Fantastic Four #296 and #543.
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Darin B. Marrs
5.0 out of 5 stars No Comic Anthology Has Better Art!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2009
Fine writing and Eye-popping art by Jack Kirby and John Romita Sr. make this book a must for any FF fanatic.My favorite stories are "Homecoming"mathe Thing's one-man showand "If This Be...Anniversaryy!" from ish 543which marked the FF's 50th anniversary.That story features a cameo b Stan the Man!And a plot 2twist ou won't believe! By far the coolest thing about the book is the artwork!One story is presented as Kirby penciled it-without color!3-D drawings throughout bring these stories to life!If you're a Four fanatic or just appreciate great drawing you NEED this book!
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Anthony LAURENT
5.0 out of 5 stars Pour les complétistes
Reviewed in France on January 9, 2017
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Ouvrage intéressant à consulter mais aussi "coup" marketing du grand stan lee. Cette histoire se situe au moment ou Jack Kirby abandonne les FF.
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Greywolf
4.0 out of 5 stars Forty Years Late, Fantastic Four #103
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2013
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In 1957, Jack Kirby created a team called the  Challengers Of The Unknown  for DC Comics. In one of their adventures (issue #3, September 1958), Rocky, the group's test pilot, flies an experimental rocket into space, is exposed to cosmic rays and returns to Earth with super-powers including super-strength, invisibility and the ability to shoot flames. In 1961, Kirby created another group for one of DC's rivals, Marvel Comics. This group also included a test pilot. They dressed in blue boiler suits as opposed to the Challengers' purple ones. They flew an experimental rocket ship into space, were exposed to cosmic rays and returned to Earth with super-powers including super-strength, invisibility and the ability to shoot flames. This second group are called The  Fantastic Four  and their first appearance is credited with having saved Marvel Comics from bankruptcy.
And there the problems start. Stan Lee, a hack writer who owed his job as Marvel's editor to being a cousin of his boss's wife, had given himself the job of dialoguing Kirby's stories and those of Jack's fellow artist, Steve Ditko. Lee has subsequently insisted, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that he created the Fantastic Four. For years, Kirby didn't complain (he had to put food on the family table), but kept turning out stories that Lee would then add dialogue to, based on notes that Kirby initially gave verbally but then took to writing into the page margins of his pencilled artwork.
By 1970, however, Kirby had finally had enough. He had created not only The Fantastic Four but The Uncanny X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, The Silver Surfer, Galactus, The Inhumans, Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD, Doctor Doom and a host of other characters for Marvel. He created the plots for their adventures and provided story notes for Lee to work from. In spite of which, he was only rarely credited with having any hand in creating the stories, nor was he paid for doing so. To add insult to injury, Lee had even taken to radically altering Kirby's stories, often asking Kirby to redo without pay pages that didn't fit the changed stories.
When Kirby left Marvel for DC in 1970, it sent shock waves through the comic book world. As he quit, Kirby handed in one last FF story to the Marvel offices, called 'The Menace of the Mega-Men' and intended to be FF #103, ending his record-breaking unbroken run on the comic since its inception nine years earlier. Stan 'the Man,' however, had other ideas and threw out the story in a huff. A partial change of heart a few months later led him to dig out the rejected pages, chop them around, rewrite Kirby's story and give it to John Buscema and John Romita to provide new art to fill in the gaps his ham-fisted editing had created. The result was the deeply unsatisfactory FF #108, called 'The Monstrous Mystery of the Nega-Man.' Lee's reason for issuing Kirby's old story at that time was that it coincided with the release of the first issues of Kirby's epic  Fourth World  saga for DC. It was supposed to be a spoiler. Instead, it was just spoiled.
This hardback book contains Kirby's original story restored from archive material to pretty much how he meant it to be. Lee has provided new dialogue based on Kirby's marginal notes that he had ignored first time around. A nice touch is that Joe Sinnott, Kirby's inker on much of his original FF run, has been brought in to ink this new version. As for the story itself, it's not exactly Earth-shattering. By the time he created it, Kirby had pretty much given up providing big ideas to the company that had never properly recompensed him for the hundreds he'd given them already. Even so, it's a Kirby FF story and a perfectly good one. Lee does a serviceable job scripting it and it's been nicely coloured in the style of its era.
Following on from the restored Kirby story is a section containing Kirby's original pencilled artwork, complete with most of his marginal notes on plot and dialogue so that we can check the extent to which Stan has followed them. Seeing Kirby's pencils is always a treat. He was a truly great artist, establishing a language of visual storytelling that has influenced virtually every creator in the medium since.
We then have the story as it ended up in FF #108 after being hacked around by Lee and partially redrawn by Buscema and Romita. It is nowhere near as good as the original Kirby version. In fact, it's a bit of a mess.
We are then offered what is proclaimed as 'The Last Fantastic Four Story,' called 'World's End' and dating from 2007. This is scripted by Stan Lee and drawn by the ever dependable John Romita Jr. This is followed by the 1986 story, 'Homecoming!' produced to mark the FF's 25th anniversary. This is also scripted by Lee, though its most interesting feature is that the first 10 pages are pencilled by the excellent Barry Windsor-Smith. The remaining 50-odd pages are by other hands and are very much of their era, by which I mean they're extremely average.
The final offering is a 9-page Stan Lee story in his best comedic style, featuring a guest appearance by, would you believe, Stan Lee? Wow. Here, the story is helped along by some Kirbyesque pencilling by Nick Dragotta, rendered more Kirbyesque by the great Mike Allred's inks.
All in all, it's an odd selection of tales related only by the fact that they're scripted by Stan Lee. The undoubted highlights are the restored Kirby tale and the pencilled pages that follow it. The rest, to be honest, pretty much feels like filler, with the exception of the few Barry Windsor-Smith pages. It's interesting to see this distinctive artist's take on the FF.
Oh, and for some reason, Marvel have chosen not to number the pages in this book. Why? Who knows?
Still, for all its faults, I'm pleased to add this to my collection. Well, it's Kirby and he is still the  King of Comics .
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Lennox Braithwaite
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2016
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A little bit disappointed but what can you get from a half finished idea
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