I love all the back stories and interconnections. How some of them like Broome and Infantino met in the 40's and how well Julie put all the elements together in the late 50's, created a new comic iconic superhero and thus saved the whole comic industry. Don't let anyone ever tell you how Stan Lee saved comics---it was the Flash and his creators that saved the comic world. It was Julie and John Broome's love for SciFi and Carmine's brilliant artwork that sparked the Silver Age and the resurgence of the Superhero. They took a chance and the readers loved it. Over at Marvel they were just following trends. Stan was fed up and had decided to quit when his publisher Martin told him to try and come up with a Superhero book like National's (DC). Again, as always following the trend Stan did as he was asked but took a different approach just for fun as he was going to quit anyway. But hey Superheroes were catching on again, DC had paved the way with Flash, Green Lantern and the Justice League. 3 titles going strong already and growing when FF#1 came out.