Fantastic Four cover

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics .
The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover dated Nov. 1961), which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium.
The Fantastic Four was the first superhero team created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby , who developed a collaborative approach to creating comics with this title that they would use from then on.
As the first superhero team title produced by Marvel Comics , it formed a cornerstone of the company's 1960s rise from a small division of a publishing company to a pop culture conglomerate.
The title would go on to showcase the talents of comics creators such as Roy Thomas , John Buscema , George Pérez , John Byrne , Steve Englehart , Walt Simonson , and Tom DeFalco , and is one of several Marvel titles originating in the Silver Age of Comic Books that is still in publication in the 2010s.