Collects Startling Fantastic Four - Unstable Molecules #1-4. In 1961 the first issue of THE FANTASTIC FOUR was drawn and written by the brilliant team of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and set a new standard for heroic adventure comics. Few people realize that the Fantastic Four—a family of sci-fi adventurers gifted with amazing powers—were actually based on the lives of real people. As often is the case, real life was as astonishing as fiction. UNSTABLE MOLECULES is a biography that revisits the Fantastic Four's beginnings with a historian's eye.

Relive the origins of the Fantastic Four with a historian's perspective!

Collecting Unstable Molecules #1-4, and Fantastic Four #1.