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"i not done with this fight yet."

"The Thing: If you want to fly to the stars, than you pilot the ship! Count me out! You know we haven't done enough research into the effect of cosmic rays! They might kill us all out in space!"

"Category:Marvel Comics"

"Category:Fantasy comics"

"Invisible Girl: Johnny! What is it? What's happening to you?"

"Mr. Fantastic: Somehow the cosmic rays have altered your atomic structure...making you grow invisible!"

"Category:Science fiction comics"

"Fantastic Four No. 1 arrived as a comic book on newsstands exactly 54 years ago this Saturday, August 8th. Written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby, the comic book —priced at $0.10 — now looks hopelessly goofy. A dozen exclamation points punctuate the cover alone, which depicts a green monster bursting up through a street in "Central City," because Lee and Kirby had not yet decided to locate their super-team in the nonfictional borough of Manhattan. "I-I can't turn invisible fast enough!!" cries the half-transparent blonde struggling to escape the creature's grasp. But in its time, Fantastic Four was revolutionary. Its heroes wore no uniforms (though they would later). They had no secret identities. They bickered among themselves like any family. Most intriguingly, they often regarded their superpowers as a curse. Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards could stretch his body like taffy. Sue "Invisible Girl" Storm could vanish from sight, but also developed telekinesis and the ability to project force fields. Her brother Johnny turned into the The Human Torch, a flying fireball, just by saying "Flame on!" You probably wouldn't want to sit next to him on the bus, but at least Johnny could flame-off when he wanted. Poor Ben Grimm, the blue-collar kid on the team, was permanently transmogrified into giant orange rock monster. Pitifully christened "The Thing," his yearning to be made flesh again gave the early Fantastic Four stories an undercurrent of pathos."

"Mr. Fantastic: Listen to me, all of you! That means you' too, Ben! Together we have more power than any humans have ever possessed!"

"Human Torch: You've turned into monsters both of you!! It's those rays! Those terrible cosmic rays! Now I know why I've been feeling so warm! Look at me!! They've affected me, too! When I get excited I can feel my body begin to blaze! I'm lighter than air!!I can fly!! Look...I can fly!!"

"Mr. Fantastic: Thank heavens!! You're all right, my darling!"

"Category:Crime comics"

"Spider-Man: I wont take anymore! I'I'd rather be dead than..."

"Daredevil (thinking): I should have expected this! He's starting tocome apart-- lashing out at me as his guts tear him inside-out! I could dodge his blows until he exhausts himself! -- But that's not going to bring him to grips with his blindness!"

"Spider-Man: I'm no good to anyone--now--not to myself...not to anyone! I'm a joke! A sick, pitiful--pathetic--joke..."

"Daredevil (thinking): No! I should have known he'd try that! He can't stand being handicapped! He's got to prove to himself that he can cope! But he's swinging in too low an arc!"

"I have finally reached my goal! But what inconceivable wonder awaits me now? One star … gleaming more brightly than all the rest, seem to be beckoning me! I have no choice but to follow it … and hope it will lead me to him whom I seek!"

"I am displeased. It is unseemly to practice the mystic arts before the eyes of others. I must seek seclusion. There is much to think upon."

"Many things there are that mankind must not know — not until the human race stands ready to accept that which is, but can never be seen!"

"Every sense … every emotion I possess … is drawing me toward that shimmering light at the end of this fantastic corridor! I have reached my destination at last! But … it is no mere light! It is an actual Universe … in microcosm! A world within a world!"

"This man reaches the very bottom and then more. … You think, How much more can this guy take? He’s broken, he gets up again, he’s broken — and that’s really what makes him a superhero. A lot of people have asked me, "What makes him a superhero?" That’s really the answer I should have given. It’s not the Cloak of Levitation. It’s not the Eye of Agamotto. It’s about his staying power. It’s a marathon and not a sprint. The guy endures so much."

"It is time for me to visit the master, from whom all my powers stem…"

"The mystic arts of black magic are older than the memory of man! In time to come, let us peer behind the enchanted veil together!"

"The weariness of a thousand battles sorely oppresses me! I must sleep … that I may thus regain needed strength! For who knows what phantom terrors the morrow may bring? And whatever they be, Dr. Strange must be ready to face them."

"I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military. So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist. I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him ... And he became very popular."

"Kirby designed the costume, because he was doing the cover. The covers were always done first. But I created the look of the characters, like Tony Stark and his secretary Pepper Potts."

"[Kirby] definitely did not do full breakdowns as has been erroneously reported about ... the first 'Iron Man'. [In the early 1970s], Jack claimed to have laid out those stories, and I repeated his claim in print — though not before checking with Heck, who said, in effect, 'Oh, yeah. I remember that. Jack did the layouts'. We all later realized he was mistaken. ... Both also believed that Jack had contributed to the plots of those debut appearances — recollections that do not match those of Stan Lee. (Larry Lieber did the script for the first Iron Man story from a plot that Stan gave him.) Also, in both cases, Jack had already drawn the covers of those issues and done some amount of design work. He came up with the initial look of Iron Man's armor..."

"What if a guy had a suit of armor, but it was a modern suit of armor - not like years ago in the days of King Arthur - and what if the suit of armor made him as strong as any superhero?"

"Tony Stark: And I swear, as the man, Tony Stark-- As the Avenger fate chose to cast in the role of Iron Man-- That I will live to avenge those to avenge those whose lives have been lost through the ignorance of men like the man I once was. Or I will die trying!"

"I did it all. They just didn't bother to call me up and find out when they wrote up the credits. It doesn't really matter. Jack Kirby created the costume, and he did the cover for the issue. In fact the second costume, the red and yellow one, was designed by Steve Ditko. I found it easier than drawing that bulky old thing. The earlier design, the robot-looking one, was more Kirbyish."

"What about you Tony Stark? Once you were do or die for America and Mom's apple pie! You didn't do much soul searching back than, did you? As Iron Man you beat up the commies for democracy without ever questioning just whose democracy you were serving...."

"The Mandarin: I've destroyed your life! I've killed your friends. I've killed your woman! Oh, and when I did to her by bringing death she welcomed death-such pleasure you will never know!"

"Black Widow: What manner of men are these Americans, who risk their lives for their enemies?"

"In everyone's life, Peter, there's an 'it'... your wife leaves you, or you get cancer. There's your life before 'it' and your life after 'it.' 9/11 was an 'it' of national magnitude. And Stamford... is going to be another one."

"Black Widow: It is fortunate that he is taken with my beauty. I will be able to twist him around my little finger!"

"Basically, I'm here to announce that we're building Iron Man [...] Not really. Maybe. It's classified."

"Tony Stark: Poor Jeanne! She probably thought I was trying to avoid her, but I couldn't go swimming! I can never appear anywhere bare chested because I constantly wear this iron chest plate. Just as other men plug in their electric shavers for their morning or evening shave, I must constantly charge up this plate which gives continued life to my heart! My ticker would stop beating if the plate were removed or didn't receive its regular booster-shot! Ah!... Electrical energy is pouring back! Now I can continue living...to help humanity as Iron Man!"

"Tony Stark: Honey no girl would want to marry an absentee husband! Think of the time I must spend managing my munitions plants all over the world!"

"Narrator: Yes, Anthony Stark is both a sophisticate and a scientist. A millionaire bachelor, as much at home in a laboratory as in high society! But this man, who seems so fortunate, who's envied by millions -- is soon destined to become the most tragic figure on earth!"

"Iron Man: To begin my demonstration ids...I'll do a juggling act, but not with oranges or basketballs! With automobiles"

"Iron Man: That gives me an idea, all commies are chronically suspicious of each other! Hmm...."

"Tony Stark, makes you feel He's a cool exec with a heart of steel As Iron Man, all jets ablaze, He's fighting and smiting with repulsor rays! Amazing armor! That's Iron Man! A blazing power! That's Iron Man!"

"It could be argued that Tony Stark is not really a disabled veteran because he is not serving in the military. He is a civilian - a military contractor, ho just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But, it can be argued that Tony Stark/Iron Man is a soldier-actually, a modern twist of an old soldier-a knight."

"Tony Stark: Americans are not murderers!"

"Tony Stark: My brain still thinks! My heart still beats! But, in order to remain alive, I must spend the rest of my life in this iron prison!!"

"General: Incredible! Infantry can now transport itself on the highways without trucks! This will revolutionize troop movements! You're a military genius, Stark!"

"All of Marvel's new heroes of the early 1960s some how reflected and contributed to American perceptions of its Cold War enemies, but none more explicitly than Iron Man, whom historian Bradford Wright identifies as "the most political of Marvel's superheroes" (222). Reflecting back on some of his co-creations in 1975, Stan Lee dubiously claimed that "Marvel Comics has never been into politics" or beholden to an "official party line" before offering a near-apology for the moral simplicity of the portrait of the Vietnam conflict in 1963's "Iron Man Is Born!" (Son of Origins 47.) A disinterested observer would find much evidence to counter these claims in the pages of Tales of Suspense between 1963 and 1968."

"I am Groot."

"I don't know if this team will work or not. All I know is it MUST. Time is critical. I see clearly now why I've been reborn. We haven't got long. Years if we're lucky, months if we're not."

"We're the Guardians of the Galaxy and we're here to — #%@&$!! We're too late, aren't we?"