Fantastic Four (comic book) stories. From 1 April 1981, the "Fantastic Four" featured in 15 issues of the anthology title "Marvel Action". The FF strip then transferred to Marvel UK's weekly "Captain America" title from issue 21, which kept the "Captain America" numbering but temporarily adopting a new title "Marvel Action starring Captain America". The FF strip was dropped when "Captain America" was merged with another Marvel UK weekly anthology title, "Marvel Super Adventure", from issue 37. After cancellation of the Pocketbook in July 1982 the classic FF strips continued in the short lived "Fantastic Four" weekly title that ran from 6 October 1982
X-Men as X-Men. In 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in "Amazing Fantasy", as well as the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four, co-creator Stan Lee wanted to create another group of superheroes but did not want to have to explain how they got their powers. In 2004, Lee recalled, "I couldn't have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the cowardly way out. I said to myself, 'Why don't I just say they're mutants. They were born that way. In a 1987 interview, Kirby said, The X-Men, I did