George RR Martin's teenage fan latter to Stan Lee: 'A masterpiece – with one flaw'

Note praising a 1964 issue of Marvel’s Fantastic Four emerges online, with the 16-year-old Martin’s attention to plotting already in evidence

“Ho-hum! Another month, another bunch of classics, but then what can else can one expect from you chaps?” begins a letter from the then 16-year-old George RR Martin to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby of Marvel Comics.

The Game of Thrones author’s letter, which was published in Fantastic Four volume one, issue 32 in 1964 and has now emerged online, initially praises Lee’s “sparkling script” and Kirby’s “sublime” art in their latest issue of the superhero comic, but then points out a plot hole.

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