I Hate the Internet Four, The Incredible Hulk, and Dr. Doom. Kirby is described as being “...the individual most screwed by the American comic book industry. Kobek describes the American comic book industry as “the perfect distillation of all the corrupt and venal behavior inherent in unregulated capitalism.” He worked-for-hire for Marvel Comics. In the novel work-for-hire was described as “one of the many bad deals that businesses offered to creative people ... we pay you enough to eat and we keep everything you create.” While working for Marvel, Kirby created Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the original X-Men, the Avengers, Thor, Loki, Iron
Fantastic Four (comic book) 1974 and changed its title to "Giant-Size Fantastic Four" with issue #2. John Byrne joined the title with issue #209 (Aug. 1979), doing pencil breakdowns for Sinnott to finish. Bill Mantlo briefly followed Wolfman as writer of the series and wrote a crossover with "Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man" #42 (May 1980). Byrne wrote and drew a giant-sized Fantastic Four promotional comic for Coca-Cola, which was rejected by Coca-Cola as being too violent and published as "Fantastic Four" #220-221 (July–Aug. 1980) instead. Writer Doug Moench and penciller Bill Sienkiewicz then took over for 10 issues. With issue #232 (July 1981),