COMICS • COLLECTOR GUIDES
The Fantastic Four—Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm—are Marvel’s pioneering superhero family, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1961. Their screen adaptations centre on exploration, family dynamics, scientific discovery and threats such as Doctor Doom, Galactus and the Silver Surfer.
Start with the essential comics, follow the character through the movie library, then continue into related stories and live shop inventory.
Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm are exposed to cosmic radiation during an experimental space flight. The accident gives each of them extraordinary powers: Reed becomes elastic, Sue can turn invisible and create force fields, Johnny becomes the Human Torch and Ben transforms into the Thing. Rather than hide their identities, they become a public family of explorers and heroes.
Important comic-book milestones for the character and why each issue or story matters.
Major key · 1961Fantastic Four #1Major key — first appearance and origin of the Fantastic Four.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1962Fantastic Four #4Major key — reintroduces Namor into the Marvel Age.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1966Fantastic Four #48Major key — first full appearance of Silver Surfer and beginning of the Galactus Trilogy.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1966Fantastic Four #52Major key — first appearance of Black Panther.Read collector guide →Additional source-material touchpoints from the movie guides below. Essential character keys already shown above are not repeated here.
Four astronauts gain powers and must stop Victor Von Doom after a cosmic accident. The film uses the comics chiefly as a foundation for its screen version of…
The Four confront the Silver Surfer and a world-consuming cosmic threat while Doom returns. Its closest comic relationship is close galactus trilogy adaptation, heavily altered, with the feature…
Young explorers enter another dimension, gain powers and confront their transformed colleague Doom. The film uses the comics chiefly as a foundation for its screen version of the…
A celebrated superhero family defends its retro-futurist world from the Silver Surfer and Galactus. Its comic connection is a synthesis: familiar characters and ideas are combined into a…
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