The Fantastic Four: The Secret Story of Marvel's Cosmic Quartet

In 1981, Ideals Publishing Corp. released this single-issue comic, a concise retelling of the Fantastic Four's origins and early adventures by the legendary team of writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. While not a new story, it served as a tidy, accessible primer on Marvel's first family of superheroes, distilling the cosmic quartet's early cosmic and familial drama into a compact format.