![]() ![]() Spider-Man will always be just on the verge of becoming a man. The Fantastic Four will always return to domesticity and the pleasures of inter-dimensional exploration. You know that Magneto, mutant supremacist enemy of the X-Men, may at a given moment be soliloquizing to his minions, posing as a prisoner in an iron mask with a star for a brain, nominally dead, or leading the X-Men, but in the end he will always return to his wicked schemes to enslave humanity. ![]() Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, hype man, one-time would-be collaborator with French New Wave film director Alain Resnais, and survivor of Marvel and proto-Marvel regimes dating back to before World War II, told his staff that he only wanted the “illusion” of change. There is nothing more telling in Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe’s fine new history, than the moment when Stan Lee lays out exactly what it is the company is supposed to do. ![]()
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