stan lee reinvented superhero comics by making them more relatable. "one day my publisher came to me -- i was the editor at the time -- " " -- and he said, 'you know, stan, one of our competitors has a superhero team which is selling very well. why don't we do a superhero team.' i figured okay, but i had been in comics so long doing the same old thing, i didn't want to continue dong the same old thing, and i figured, well, if we do a superhero team, maybe we can do it differently. so we came up with the fantastic four. and one of the differences was, they didn't always work harmoniously as people had in comics before. there were jealousies amongst the four of them, one of them wanted to quit because he wasn't getting paid enough, another one thought the other was grabbing all the headlines and all the glory. oine of the members of the team was actually engaged to the girl -- to the heroine -- the girl -- female member which hadn't happened in comics before. they even got married in a future issue. and we tried to make it as realistic as possible." the