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August 1961 saw Marvel Comics published the first issue of the Fantastic Four, their first superhero comic for years, that would see the genre redefined and recreated into the mainstream comics and movie blockbuster dominating force it has become And in August 2021, sixty-year in, Marvel are to publish an Omnibus containing that comic –[...]

Fantastic Four's first 100 issues are so full of importance that some of the cooler stories get overlooked sometimes Like this gem, Hulk Vs Thing in Fantastic Four #25 Featuring some of Jack Kirby's best work, it also is Captain America's second appearance in the silver age Not bad for a book some wouldn't consider[...]

Marvel mega-boss Kevin Feige announced that they are currently working on a Fantastic Four movie and that the director of the Marvel Spider-Man movies, Jon Watts, will be bringing the production to life. Jon Watts will direct the new feature film for Marvel's First Family, Fantastic Four! pic.twitter.com/Eu26ghxbGT — Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020 We don't have[...]

This year's theme was Venomized Fantastic Four, with a total of eight different Pop designs that collectors could get Each member of the Fantastic Four can be found Venomized with Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, The Thing, and the Human Torch Each of them will also be getting their own special variant version, and of course,[...]

Marvel's favorite family, The Fantastic Four, is back once again but with a new venomous twist For Black Friday 2020, GameStop has released an exclusive Funko mystery box filled with venomized goodies This year's theme is Venomized Fantastic Four, and each box is filled with  1 Pop, 1 Pocket Pop, 1 Pop PEZ, 1 Pop[...]

Franklin Richards has been one of the Marvel Universe's most powerful mutants, since his birth to Susan Storm of the Fantastic Four Approaching godhood with reality-bending powers, his abilities were suppressed by his father as a young child, though they began to leak out He created universes as his playthings, and in Secret Wars, remade[...]

When the House Of X began, the Fantastic Four were there, as Cyclops made the intentions of Krakoa towards Franklin Richards very clear As a mutant, he was a child of Krakoa, and would be welcomed there. Franklin Richards – Another Mutant That Never Was? (FF #26 Spoilers) Because that is how the overly-powerful Franklin Richards has[...]

When it comes to infamous misfires, Josh Trank's Fantastic Four (2015) is one of the biggest ones for 20th Century Studios While promoting her limited series, A Teacher, Kate Mara, who played Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, spoke with Collider about her time on the set of the ill-fated reboot The actress cited the former Fox[...]

And that the Fantastic Four were to return. The 2016 Calendar also showed us how serious Marvel was about not promoting the X-Men. And now, from having no mention of them made four years ago, the Marvel 2021 Calendar spotlights the Fantastic Four Well, it will be their sixtieth anniversary in November 2021, and it does suggest[...]

A storyline that would upend the future of the Marvel Universe, centred on She-Hulk but involving The Watcher, the Fantastic Four, Gauntlet, Iron Man, Southpaw and many more. Art from She Hulk #3 (2005) In She Hulk #3 back in 2005, we discovered, from the Time Variance Authority, that actions already taken by She Hulk would lead to The[...]

Well, Dan Slott and Marvel Comics did promise "And a new, major, permanent status quo change for Marvel's First Family" after Empyre, in Fantastic Four #25 And not just about a potential revival of the Reckoning War (we'll get to that). Dan Slott. Today's Fantastic Four #25 sees a major cosmic battle take place on Earth, between[...]

The core value of this intellectual property is family, and Dan Scott's script really nails the close, personal connections between characters. The cover of Fantastic Four #24 Credit: Marvel The issue hits both all elements of the modern-day while getting into nostalgic moments so steeped in the zeitgeist of the properties' creation that you'd half expect to[...]

Empyre was billed as an Avengers/Fantastic Four event, but the main title felt a bit light on the latter Now, the same week as Al Ewing wraps up the Avengers side of things with Empyre Aftermath: Avengers #1, writer Dan Slott and artist Sean Izaakse team up to deliver another epilogue with Empyre Fallout: Fantastic Four #1. While Ewing's issue focused on[...]

And is also writing a one-shot for December with Marvel's oldest family, the Fantastic Four Are we sure he's not related to Dan Slott? We'll see if he starts writing She-Hulk or Spider-Man Anyway, he's writing a Fantastic Four one-shot for Marvel drawn by Filipe Andrade, and it looks like it may be entering the[...]

Back in August we stated, First appearance of Doc Samson of Gamma Flight from Incredible Hulk (1968) #141 First full appearance of the new Black Knight from Avengers (1963) #48 First appearance of Black Panther from Fantastic Four (1961) #52 Enchantress disguised as Valkyrie from Avengers (1963) #83 First appearance of Beta Ray Bill from Thor (1966) #337 First appearance of[...]

That extends to comics, and especially the character's first appearance from Fantastic Four #52 A Stan Lee and Jack Kirby must-own, there is a gorgeous copy of the The book up for auction on Heritage right now, part of Dallas Lot #7234 CGC 9.0, it is next to impossible to find this Black Panther key[...]

Will Dan Slott's Reckoning War begin with Fantastic Four #25? Yesterday, Bleeding Cool asked if Dan Slott was bringing back his Reckoning War storyline that he was proposing around twenty years ago, got teased in a number of books, most prominently She-Hulk, but never came to fruition? And how his writing on Fantastic Four, Empyre[...]

Spoilers for Empyre: Fantastic Four Fallout ahead But first a trip back in time Twenty-or-so-years ago, Dan Slott used to drop something into a number of his comic books at Marvel about something he would call The Reckoning War A storyline that would upend the future of the Marvel Universe, centred on She-Hulk but involving The[...]

This week, as well as Empyre: Avengers Aftermath, gives us the Empyre: Fantastic Four Fallout – the stuff that is alleged by Dan Slott to have major impact on the Marvel Universe as a whole But in the preview below, seems more concerned with having Quoi, the Celestial Messiah, he who was behind the whole[...]

Fantastic Four: Antithesis is an oddity as a Marvel comic published in 2020 that is meant to feel like it is, per the inside front cover, "from a classic era." Writer Mark Waid, one of the indisputable giants of the superhero genre, is joined by artist Neal Adams, the living legend who said earlier this year that he[...]

Empyre #4's ratio of spectacle to story is off balance, which makes this a less than gripping read. This should feel like it’s something. It doesn’t.

We have heard Dan Slott talk about how the events of Empyre will significantly impact on the Fantastic Four, and how it will involve the Skrull and Kree kids, N'Kalla and,  rescued by the FF on their way back to Earth and the beginning of the Empyre storyline "The Kree Chronicle of Blood and the[...]

Marvel somehow found the time to squeeze out five X-books last week, and we're now down to the final book we have to recap: X-Men/Fantastic Four #4! Oh, and by the way, in a new feature, down at the bottom of this week's articles, you'll find a table of contents linking to all the X-ual[...]

Talking Empire on the Marvel Next Big Thing panel at San Diego Comic-Con@Home and thanks to Dan Slott and Al Ewing we got to hear more of those big Fantastic Four-changing plans that Marvel has been teasing of late. Specifically Kree and Skrull children picked up by the Fantastic Four, Jo-Venn and N'kalla, "the Kree Chronicle[...]

The Empyre event continued last week into Empyre Fantastic Four #0 with a cute little brief setup for the whole event Remember, Empyre is billed as an Avengers / Fantastic Four Event Crossover, so we've gotten the Avengers part of the prologue for this event, and gotten the Fantastic Four part, so finally we get to[...]

Today, however, in Fantastic Four Empyre #0, we at least know that Franklin Richards has seen the show – and is using the Baby Yoda lesson well. First Baby Yoda in a Marvel Comic – Empyre #0: Fantastic Four. Not an actual appearance of Baby Yoda, and this was originally to have been published in early April[...]

But none of them touch this week's Empyre #0: Fantastic Four by Dan Slott and RB Silva Which has a very different take on events We looked at this a few months ago, but with the comic book in question out this week, here's a little recap. Introducing The Profiteer Empyre: Avengers #0 set up the battleground[...]

How important it is to upcoming events is noted afterward and reflects the issues relation to Empyre, not the quality of the story. Empyre Avengers #0 + Empyre FF #0 Covers Spoilers for Empyre #1 do follow… The Beginnings of the Kree and the Skrull Empires 1962: The Fantastic Four (Volume 1) #2 – The second issue published of[...]

The Empyre event is billed as an Avengers / Fantastic Four Event Crossover, so last week provided the Avengers part of the prologue for this event, and on July 8th we get the Fantastic Four part As the lead-in to "the next big thing," how does Empyre Fantastic Four #0 do as a book? Spoilers ahead, you have been warned! Empyre Fantastic Four[...]

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