Marvel: August 1961

The month of August in 1961 was one of the most momentous in Marvel’s history, laying the foundation for pop culture as it exists today – and this collection includes every comic book that released in that fateful month!

In August 1961, FANTASTIC FOUR #1 hit newsstands, heralding a new take on super hero stories and the birth of the Silver Age Marvel Universe! But Marvel Comics had been around for years before that, publishing Western, romance, comedy, monster and science fiction titles.. and in August 1961, FANTASTIC FOUR was just one of over a dozen very different Marvel books! Now, sixty years later, experience the excitement of being a comic book fan in that momentous month – with a complete collection of every issue that shared the shelves with FF #1, many never before reprinted!