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,
Crusader (Marvel Comics) Crusader (Marvel Comics) Crusader is the name of different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Two have made significant appearances and other are minor characters or aliases. The first Crusader first appeared in "Thor" #330 (April, 1983) and was created by writer Alan Zelenetz and penciller Bob Hall. The second is a Skrull superhero that first appeared in "Marvel Team-Up" vol. 3 #23 (Aug. 2006) and was created by Robert Kirkman and Andy Kuhn. Arthur Blackwood was born in Decatur, Illinois. He was a seminary student in Chicago, who believed that the church should become