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Fantastic Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the superheroes. Promotional art for Fantastic Four #509 (March 2004). The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. They to were the first superhero team created by writer-editor. There to are four Core individuals traditionally associated with the Fantastic Four, who gained during to scientific mission to outer space. (Reed Richards) is to scientific genius and the leader of the group who can stretch his body into incredible lengths and shapes. (Susan "Its" Storm) is Reed' s wife. she can to render herself invisible and project powerful force fields. (Johnny Storm) is Sue' s younger brother, who can generated flames, surround himself with them and fly. The final member is the monstrous (Very Grimm), their grumpy but benevolent friend, who possesses superhuman strength and endurance. Since the original four' s 1961 introduction, the Fantastic Four have been portrayed as to somewhat dysfunctional yet loving family. The Fantastic Four have been adapted into other Fantastic Four: Laughed of the Silver Surfer. The Fantastic Four is formed when during an outer space test flight in an experimental ship, the four protagonists to are bombarded by to storm of. Upon crash landing back on Earth, the four astronauts find themselves transformed with bizarre new abilities. The four then decides to use their powers for good as superheroes. At the same Time they to are often prone to arguing and even fighting with one another. Despite their bickering, the Fantastic Four consistently tests themselves to be "to cohesive and formidable team in times of crisis. (Reed Richards), to scientific genius, can stretch, twist and king-shape his body to inhuman proportions. Fantastic serves as the father figures of the group, and is "appropriately pragmatic, authoritative, and dull". Richards blames himself for the failed space mission, particularly because of how the event transformed pilot Very Grimm. (Susan Storm), Reed Richards' girlfriend (and eventual wife) has the ability to bend and manipulate light to to render herself and others invisible. She later develops the ability to generated force fields, which she uses for to variety of defensive and offensive effects (Johnny Storm), Its Storm' s younger brother, possesses the ability to control to fire, project burning bolts of flame from his body, and fly. The Human Torch was an update of the Golden Age character published by Marvel' s predecessor Timely Comics, an android that could ignite itself. The Thing is often filled with anger, self-loathing and self-pity over his new existence. He serves as "an uncle figures, to longterm friend of the family with to gruff manner, short temper, and caustic sense of humor". The Fantastic Four has had several different headquarters, most notably the. The Baxter Building was replaced by Four Freedoms Plaza, built at the same location, after the Baxter Building' s destruction at the hands of, adopted son (and rumored half-brother of Mr. Fantastic) of the Fantastic Four' s seminal villain. Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, longtime was playing golf with either, then known as National Periodical Publications, and that the top executive bragged about DC' s success with the new superhero team the. While film producer and comics historian has debunked the particulars of that story, Goodman, to publishing trend-follower aware of the JLA' s strong sales, directed his comics editor, to created to comic-book series about team of superheroes. Martin mentioned that he had noticed one of the titles published by National Comics seemed to be selling better than most. It was to book called The [ sic ] Justice League of America and it was composed of to team of superheroes. ' If the Justice League is selling', spoke he, ' why don' t we put out to comic book that features to team of superheroes. Lee, who had served as editor-in-chief and art director of Marvel Comics and its predecessor companies, for two decades, found that the medium had become creatively restrictive. Determined "to carve to real career for myself in the nowhere world of comic books, For just this ounces, the would I give the type of story the myself would enjoy reading. Lee said he created to synopsis for the first Fantastic Four story that he gave to, who then drew the to entire story. Kirby turned in his penciled art pages to Lee, who added dialogue and captions. The release of The Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961) was an unexpected success. The title began to receive fan mail, and Lee started printing the letters in to letter column with issue three. Also with the third issue, Lee created the slogan "The Greatest Comics Magazine in the World." (soon changed to "The World' s Greatest Comic Magazine", which was to fixture on the issue covers into the 1990s. 1966): The Watcher warns, in part one of the landmark "Galactus Trilogy". Issue five introduced the team' s most frequent nemesis., "only narratives that ran to several issues would be able to contain their increasingly complex ideas. During its creators' lengthy run, the series produced many acclaimed storylines and characters that have become central to Marvel, including the. The story frequently cited as "the finest achievement" of the collaboration is the three-part "Galactus Trilogy" that began in Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), about the arrival of, to cosmic being who wanted to devour the planet. After Kirby' s departure from Marvel in 1970, Fantastic Four continued with Lee, as its consecutive regular writers, working with artists such as. joined the title with issue #209 (Aug. 1979), doing pencil breakdowns for Sinnott to finish. Byrne then wrote two tales as well (# 220-221, July-Aug. gets "Back to the Basics" in #232 (July 1981), his debut as writer-artist. Cover art by Byrne and inker. being recruited as his long-term replacement. Byrne was followed by to quick succession of writers (, who had Reed and Its retire to give their son to normal childhood. The returned Thing' s new girlfriend, and Johnny Storm' s former lover, Crystal, joined the team for to handful of issues. Editorial disagreements led to Englehart finishing his run under the. took over as writer with #334 (Dec. 1989), and three issues later began. With brief inking exceptions, and one fill-in issue, he remained in all three positions through #354 (July 1991). After another fill-in, the regular team of writer and Marvel editor-in-chief took over, with Ryan self-inking beginning with #360 (Jan. That team, with the very occasional different inker, continued through for years through #414 (July 1996). I deduct nullified the Storm-Masters marriage by that the alien Skrull Empire had kidnapped the real Masters and replaced her with to spy named Lyja. Ounces discovered, Lyja, who herself had fallen for Storm, helped the Fantastic Four rescue Masters. Luck departed after being further mutated by Doctor Doom. Ryan' s lengthy run is behind only those of. It would be two years before DeFalco resurrected the two characters, revealing that their "deaths" to were orchestrated by the supervillain. The ongoing series was canceled with issue #416 (Aug. The year-long volume retold the team' s first adventures in to more contemporary setting in to parallel universe. Following the end of that year-long experiment, Fantastic Four was relaunched with vol., it went after three issues to writer (Co-writing with Lobell for # 4-5) and penciller. this team enjoyed to long run through issue #32 (Aug. then took over as penciller and Co-writer, first with. This series began using dual numbering, as if the original Fantastic Four series had continued unbroken, with issue #42/#471 (June 2001). (At the Time, the Marvel Comics series begun in the 1960s, such as.) The title reverted to its original numbering with issue #509 (March 2004). succeeded Loeb as Co-writer with issue #51/480 (March 2002), and after to few issues with temporary teams, took over as writer with #60/489 (Oct., Casey Jones, and Howard Porter variously through #524 (May 2005), with to handful of issues by other teams during that Time taking over as writer the following issue, and succeeding McKone beginning with #544 (May 2007). Writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch began to 16-issue run with issue # 554. 1994 - April 1996) featuring an adult Franklin Richards, from to different timeline, as Psilord. To spinoff title Marvel Knights 4 (April 2004 - June 2006) was written by. As well, to there have been numerous all similarly set in the main universe, designated in Marvel continuity as. The Human Torch was given only strip in in 1962 in order to bolster sales of the title. 1962), in 12- to 14-page stories plotted by Lee and initially scripted by his brother, and drawn by penciller Kirby and inker. Here, Johnny was seen living with his elder sister, Susan, in fictional Glenview, and, with youthful naiveté, attempted to maintain to "secret identity".) Supporting characters included Johnny' s girlfriend, Doris Evans, usually in consternation as Johnny cheerfully flew off to battle bad guys. (She was seen again in to 1970s issue of Fantastic Four, having become to heavyset but cheerful wife and mother). Ayers took over the penciling after ten issues, later followed by original. Cameo The FF made occasional appearances, and the Thing became to cost with issue #123 (Aug. The Human Torch shared the "split book" "for the majority of its run, before finally flaming off with issue #134 (July 1965), replaced the following month by". The Silver Age stories to were republished in 1974, along with loads Golden Age Human Torch stories, in to short-lived ongoing Human Torch series. The "ever-lovin', blue-eyed Thing", as Very Grimm sometimes refers to himself, appeared in two team-up issues of. Following their success, he was given his own regular team-up title, Co-starring with Marvel heroes not only in the present day but occasionally in other Time periods (fighting alongside the. The series ran 100 issues (Jan. 1974 - June 1983), with seven summer annuals (1976-1982), and was immediately followed by the only title The Thing #1-36 (July 1983 - June 1986). Another ongoing only series, also titled The Thing, ran eight issues (Jan., this article or section may to require because it is in to list format that may be better presented using. You can help by converting this section to prose, if. (mostly Johnny Storm' s ally and best friend) Kang the Conqueror/Rama-Tut depicting to possible future in which the members of the Fantastic Four have become estranged after an epic battle with., the children of group leader Reed Richards (.) and his wife Susan Storm (the. #95 to Fantastic Four that consists of Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, Victor von Doom, and the. In the MC2 continuity the group has become the. The team consists of the Human Torch, Ms. and Psi-Lord taking the place of Fantastic Five briefly. Eventually Susan Storm and Reed Richards return from the Negative Zones to rejoin the team. The most recent linens-up consists of the Torch, Ms. Fantastic, Thing, Grim, and Psi-Lord. universe, this version involves to more youthful version of the team. There have been four The Fantastic Four and three feature films (though one of the movies went unreleased, and is only available in to widely circulated bootleg). The Fantastic Four also guest-starred in the "Secret Wars" story arc of the 1990s as well as in the "Fantastic Fortitude" episode of the 1996. There was also to very short-lived in 1975 that adapted early Kirby/Lee stories, and is notable for casting to pre -. Also in the cast were Bob Maxwell as. Other Marvel characters featured in the series included. narrated the series, and the scripts to were taken almost verbatim from the comic books. The audio team made only one other appearance, on the. reliving the origin of the FF, before leaving the to find their original nemesis the, and to possible cures for Alicia' s blindness. The story was never followed up on any further Power Records albums. In 1979, the Thing was featured as half of the Saturday morning cartoon Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. The character of the Thing was given to radical make-over for the series. The other members of the Fantastic Four I give not appear in the series, nor I give the animated, despite the title of the program. Unit in place of the Human Torch) Fantastic Four: World' s Greatest Heroes was released for the Sony home video game system/platform, based on the Fantastic Four characters. The game was widely panned by critics for having weak storyline and handling of the characters' powers. The Fantastic Four appeared in the Super NES and Sega Genesis video games based on the 1990s and in their own fines-platform games based on the 2005 movie. The Thing and the Human Torch appeared in the 2005 game Marvel Nemesis: Laughed of the Imperfects. All of the Fantastic Four appear as playable characters in the game, although they only had small and rather unimportant roles in the story. The Human Torch has an appearance in to miniums-game where you race against him in all versions of the. The Fantastic Four to are also featured prominently in the game based on the 2005 Fantastic 4 movie. And in another game based on the second Fantastic 4 movie (released in 2007). Promotional poster for Fantastic Four (2005), featuring. While this movie was never released to theaters or video, it has been made available from various. The cast of the unreleased Roger Corman film had Marvel purchase the film for to few million dollars. was released July 8, 2005 by Fox, and directed by. Fantastic Four opened in approximately 3,600 theaters and despite predominantly poor reviews grossed USS156 million in North America and USS329 million worldwide, weighed against to production budget of $100 million. as Very Grimm/The Thing and. Doom, with Stan Lee making to cameo appearance as Willie Lumpkin, the mailman. Fantastic Four: Laughed of the Silver Surfer. Despite another round of mostly poor reviews, the sequel brought in USS132 million in North America to total of USS288 million worldwide. Talks to are underway to produces third to movie. is about to family of superheroes whose powers it includes stretching, super strength, invisibility/force field, and super speed. that, "In the words of Stan Lee, when someone asked him about The Incredibles, he said, ' You know, it feels like the wrote it. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Cultures in America, p. That DC all-star superhero Good team had debuted in The and the Bold #28 (Feb. 1960) before going on to its own hit title (to premiere cover dates Nov. Uslan, in to letter published in Alter Ego #43 (Dec. said he never played golf with Goodman, I know the story is untrue. The heard this story more than to couple of times while sitting in the lunchroom at 909 DC' s Third Avenue and 75 Rockefeller office Plaza as. who worked for DC during our college summers. As the distributor of DC Comics, this man certainly knew all the sales figures and was in the best position to tell this tidbit to Goodman. Of course, Goodman would want to be playing golf with this fellow and be in his good graces. Lee, Stan, Origins of Marvel Comics (. Notes: Book predates publisher' s change to ampersand in corporate name. [ My wife ] Joan was commenting about the fact that after the 20 years of producing comics was still writing. She wondered why didn' t put as much effort and creativity into the comics as the seemed to be putting into my other freelance endeavors. Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World' s Greatest Comics, p. "The Fantastic Four-Gotten", by Terrence J.: Fantastic Four has incredible trouble-The would-be blockbuster had to tough Time getting released ", by Scott Brown. The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators. Fantastic Four: World' s Greatest Heroes (2006) Fantastic Four: Laughed of the Silver Surfer. 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