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Marvel Recreates Chris Weston's Fantastic Four Cover for First Steps

Marvel Studios has recreated Chris Weston's Fantastic Four cover from twenty years ago for The Fantastic Four: First Steps movie.

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  • Marvel Studios recreates Chris Weston's iconic Fantastic Four: First Family cover for the new FF movie.
  • Artist Chris Weston notes the film's visual homage and jokes about receiving Marvel premiere tickets.
  • Weston's 2004 cover reimagined the classic Fantastic Four origin with Joe Casey, gaining new recognition now.
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps featurette directly acknowledges inspiration from Weston's comic art.

This is the cover to 4: First Family #1 by Chris Weston, published twenty years ago, a series by Joe Casey and Weston that rewrote and retold the origins of the FF and made it make a little more sense than the original from sixty-five years ago.

And artist Chris Weston has noticed a similarity between this cover and a certain pose from the new The Fantastic Four: First Steps movie as seen in this featurette. Chris Weston bleets out "Wow. They've literally reproduced my cover from "Fantastic Four: First Family"! C'mon, @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social, that's got to be worth a couple of free tickets." You would have thought 'The Special Thanks' section buried in the credits usually triggers a $5000 payment to cover the cost of attending the US premiere of a film based on the work of comic creators used in the movie. And just in case anyone thinks it is a coincidence… they actually cough to it in the featurette.

And a quick zoom-in for the sake of comparison…

Might a couple of Premiere tickets and Economy Plus tickets on British Airways be on their way, sharpish?

Fantastic Four: First Family by Joe Casey, Chris Weston
For the first time, untold secrets of the Fantastic Four's earliest days are revealed! What happened the moment after Reed Richards' rocket crash-landed? What happened – to Sue Storm, to Ben Grimm, to Johnny Storm – in the days following that fateful event? An in-depth, action-packed, psychologically thrilling exploration of the FF's origin! Collects Fantastic Four: First Family #1-6.

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