Fantastic Four

Created in 1961 to rival the Justice League of America, the Fantastic Four centered around the adventures of genius Reed Richards, his fiancé Sue Storm, her brother Johnny, and friend Ben Grimm’s ill-fated space mission. As a result of being affected by cosmic rays, the four began developing new powers. Reed could stretch and began calling himself Mr. Fantastic; Sue could turn invisible and accordingly called herself first the Invisible Girl then the Invisible Woman; Johnny’s ability to turn his body into flame gave rise to the name the Human Torch; Ben Grimm was turned into a mammoth of a rock creature called the Thing.

The Fantastic Four’s villains included Golden Age good guy Namor the Sub-Mariner, now re-imagined as a bitter ruler of Atlantis, and Doctor Doom, their most frequent foe. Other enemies included the alien shape-changing race the Skrulls, and the Mole Man. The Galactus Trilogy also introduced the audience to the planet eating Galactus and his then servant, the Silver Surfer.
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