Read George R. R. Martin’s 1963 Letter To Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
In 1963, George R. Martin (who, at that age, had yet to earn his second “R”) wrote to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in feigned praise of Fantastic Four #17, an issue he refers to, dryly, as “greater than great… absolutely stupendous, the ultimate, utmost!” Proving that even as a boy, GRRM was an acerbic,…