Marvel Comics teenager, something with which many readers could identify. Lee and freelance artist and eventual co-plotter Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four originated in a Cold War culture that led their creators to revise the superhero conventions of previous eras to better reflect the psychological spirit of their age. Eschewing such comic-book tropes as secret identities and even costumes at first, having a monster as one of the heroes, and having its characters bicker and complain in what was later called a "superheroes in the real world" approach, the series represented a change that proved to be a great success. Marvel often presented
Goliath (Marvel Comics) Goliath (Marvel Comics) Goliath is a superhero comic book identity in Marvel Comics. The Goliath identity has been used by various superheroes. Henry "Hank" Pym was the first to adopt the Goliath name. Clinton "Clint" Barton is better known as the superhero Hawkeye; he used the Pym size-changing gas to adopt the Goliath powers and identity shortly after Hank Pym was Yellowjacket. He remained Goliath through the Kree-Skrull War, and briefly resumed using the identity during "". Dr. William "Bill" Foster was Pym's lab assistant, an African American who had an equally brief career as the Black Goliath and Giant-Man