Maximum Fantastic Four HC

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Maximum Fantastic Four, Marvel's first self-produced coffee table art book, is the brainchild of novelist Walter Mosely.

The book presents the inaugural issue of Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby from 1961 in a super-size, digitally re-mastered, panel-by panel format. Mosely¹s introduction and afterward to the volume will be complimented with an essay by Kirby expert Mark Evanier.

"Readers will witness a journey through a comic that, though reprinted many times before, has literally never been seen like this before," said Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley. "I fully realize that comic fans have heard statements like that many times in the past but I say it with the most sincerity I can muster: this is a book that belongs on the shelf of every single Kirby enthusiast, Fantastic Four follower and comic-book aficionado."

Growing up African American in the early 1960s and living with a father who disdained comics, Mosely saw certain truths and sanctuaries in the world of Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch, and the Thing. As an adult he attempted to recapture that magic feeling, that moment he "learned that entertainment, education, and art could all coexist in one form" by blowing up each page of FF #1 and view its detail in a fresh fashion. Mosely presented this approach to the art of Kirby as a mass-market book idea to Avi Arad at Marvel and the result was Maximum Fantastic Four.

"I wanted to capture the feeling I had as a child when I would bear down and examine each panel with the kind of scrutiny that opens up worlds," Mosely said. "I found that when I blew up the image--each panel comprising its own page--I was able to recreate that same experience.

"As an adult I can also see the parallels between some of the greatest painters and Kirby's compositions--from Goya to the grotesques DaVinci drew, on to some of the most dynamic painters of our last century. Jack Kirby's unique sense of composition and narrative put him in a league along with these masters."

Mosely is the author of such books as Lillte Scarlett, The Man in My Basement, Fearless Jones and the continuing adventures of his well-loved character Easy Rawlins.

Maximum Fantastic Four, a 224-page book, will feature a four-color dust jacket that unfolds into a giant full-color double-sided poster (25² X 36²) and a matte laminated case with spot UV.

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