Yancy Street
The Yancy Street Gang is a fictional Gang, street gang appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is occasionally featured in the ''Fantastic Four (comic book), Fantastic Four'' comic book. The gang is often seen as an antagonist for Ben Grimm, the Thing, showering him with insults, and occasionally heads of lettuce. In their early appearances, they were an "off-screen" presence, with only their hands and arms visible on-panel. Origins of the concept Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the early days of the ''Fantastic Four'' comic, "Yancy Street" is a reference to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Kirby grew up. This was the Thing's old's neighborhood as well, and the character was targeted by the Yancy Street Gang for being a "sellout", and abandoning his working-class, hoodlum roots. Kirby considered the Thing to be his "alter ego", and the character's troubled relationship with his old neighborhood has been seen as a metaphor for Kirby's own Jews ...
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{{Commons category, Comic book publishing companies Companies that produce comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...s and related merchandise. Publishing companies, Comic book Publishing companies by medium ...
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