The Galactus Trilogy and "Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four, Volume 5" (). The Galactus Trilogy "The Galactus Trilogy" is a 1966 three-issue comic book story arc that appeared in "Fantastic Four" #48 - #50. Written, plotted and drawn by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics, it introduced the characters Galactus and the Silver Surfer. In 2018, "The Atlantic" called it "the indisputable pinnacle of the so-called Silver Age of comic books". In 1966, nearly five years after launching Marvel Comics' flagship superhero title, "Fantastic Four", Lee and Kirby collaborated on an antagonist designed to break from the era's archetypal mold of supervillains,
Captain Marvel (DC Comics) adventures feature him as a solo hero, he also fought evil on a regular basis accompanied by several other kids who share his powers to make up a superhero team called the Marvel Family (later referred to as the "Shazam Family" due to the issues DC Comics faced over the "Marvel" and "Captain Marvel" trademarks). The first members of the family, introduced in "Whiz Comics" #21 (Sept. 1941) and used sparingly afterwards, were the Lieutenant Marvels: three other boys from various parts of the United States who are also named "Billy Batson" and discover that, if they all say "Shazam!"