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In the early 2000s, we got two Fantastic Four movies, and they really aren't great The first one isn't as bad as you remember it is, it's about what you expect from the time, and the second one is just as bad as you remember The casting in those movies, aside from Jessica Alba as[...]

Who Watches The Watchers? Dan Slott does! Slott is leaving the Fantastic Four after four-and-a-bit years, and is changing the Marvel Universe on his way out and maybe, just maybe, that will involve his continued rewriting and reconceptualising the history of The Watchers First, he changed the home planet and species of the Watchers, tying[...]

Previously, Bleeding Cool reported that Dan Slott was to leave the Fantastic Four comic with Fantastic Four #46 in August, promising the introduction of the lost daughter of Nathaniel Richards and the sister of Reed Richards And he is still leaving But is going out with a bang.   But that comes after the conclusion of The[...]

Fantastic Four #46 for August is promised as the introduction of the lost daughter of Nathaniel Richards and the sister of Reed Richards by Dan Slott and CAFU But from the house ad in today's Marvel comics being shared on social media, it will also be the final issue by Dan Slott who has been[...]

The John Buscema,Fantastic Four #126 cover that reprised the original Fantastic Four #1 cover by Fantastic Four co-creator Jack Kirby, and is also signed and inscribed by the comic book's writer, and Fantastic Four's other co-creator Stan Lee And while the FF #1 cover has been homaged, referenced and repeated so many times – this[...]

Bleeding Cool ran a little Fantastic Four gossip a few weeks ago, which seems to have come to fruition today Looking at aspects of The Reckoning War which were set up by Dan Slott almost fifteen years ago are coming to fruition, as the character co-created by Dan back then, Gauntlet gets involved. The Badoon want[...]

You can find other early Marvel previews here grouped together,  but we had a few left over, Fantastic Four #43, which you can compare to some of our previous Fantastic Four gossip if you want, as well as Savage Avengers #1, Spider-Punk #2, X-Cellent #4 and Marvels #10. FANTASTIC FOUR #43 MARVEL COMICS FEB220978 (W) Dan Slott (A)[...]

Marvel Comics is suffering from a lot of delays right now, including the Fantastic Four You know what they say, absence makes the heart grow gossiper Last week's Amazing Spider-Man #1 (also late) was set six months into the future of the current Marvel Universe Or at least where was last left Peter Parker, the[...]

Jon Watts, who has reinvigorated the Spider-man franchise, has left the director's chair for Marvel Studios Fantastic Four Deadline reports that there is no ill will there, he just wants a break from superhero films The big reinvention of Marvel's first family is seen as a jewel in the MCU crown that fans are desperate[...]

It looks like the Mezco Toyz One:12 Collective Fantastic Four bundle has been pushed back to later in the year However, Marvel Comics fans can rejoice as the iconic villain Doctor Doom is also on the way No Fantastic Four set can be finished without a deadly villain to go against in Mezco Toyz has[...]

Last September, Fantastic Four #35 had the revelation from Nathaniel Richards, father of Reed Richards, and ancestor of Kang The Conqueror We knew that in a parallel dimension he had another two children, a boy and a girl, the latter who became Huntara But it seems he didn't just get busy in another dimension and time[...]

A copy of Fantastic Four #1 CGC 9.2 has just been sold for a record $1,500,000 at this afternoon's session of the 2022 April 7 – 10 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction #7270 at Heritage Auctions The November 1961 cover-dated comic book by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee was released on August 8, 1961, and is the[...]

And no one mentioning the whole zombie scenario. It may be noted that Jack Of Hearts is also appearing alongside She-Hulk in the Reckoning War storyline in Fantastic Four A series which recently saw Mister Fantastic deal with something called The Zero Force. "The source of pre-primordial power An energy that predates our very existence." It ends a[...]

In Fantastic Four's Reckoning War, She-Hulk, fighting alongside Jack Of Hearts, is looking at her own history and why, as prophesied back in 2005, she is responsible for the entire Reckoning War from happening. She Hulk #3 (2005) That this was a bad thing That this was all She-Hulk's fault, and emanated from something she had done[...]

As the Baxter building falls in this preview of Fantastic Four #42, Reed gives the order to initiate Protocol Zero Oh no! Not Protocol Zero! Wait… What's Protocol Zero? Check out the preview below. Fantastic Four #42 by Dan Slott & Rachael Stott, cover by Cafu "BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER" One of the most pivotal planets in the Marvel[...]

Death may have restored the sight of Alicia Masters in this preview of The Thing #6, but she's still trying to steal her man.

Lee and Steve Ditko appeared in silhouette brainstorming about story ideas in a humorous short called "Something Fantastic" in Amazing Adult Fantasy #12 (1961).  Stan Goldberg and Lee put Jack Kirby in the middle of a humorous and memorable story in Millie the Model #107 (1962).  But the story in Fantastic Four #10 (1963) not[...]

Fantastic Four's first 100 issues are maybe the best run of comics ever published One of my personal favorites is #12, as it features the first fight between The Hulk and Thing I own this book, but it is a disaster I certainly do not have a copy as nice as this copy, which is[...]

Whether that was the Fantastic Four beating the Commies into space, dealing with the Red Ghost and his apes when they went to space, the Russian agent Igor who caused the accident that caused the Hulk, even the Black Widow was introduced as a supervillain Armoured Russians Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man were early Iron[...]

Things look grim for The Thing in this preview of Fantastic Four #41, part of the Reckoning War super-mega-crossover event Will Ben Grimm shockingly die to ensure this event "means something?" And if so, how long before he shockingly returns in a follow-up super-mega-crossover event? Check out the preview below. Fantastic Four #41 by Dan Slott &[...]

Agatha Harkness always seemed a little out of place against the super-science backdrop of the world of the Fantastic Four of the late Silver Age (or early Bronze Age if you prefer, this one is borderline), but that was undoubtedly part of the point.  In need of a way to raise newborn Franklin Richards away[...]

But when you claim that nothing will ever be the same again roughly every two weeks, how can you expect anyone to actually take that claim seriously? It's a problem Marvel apparently recognizes, as the solicitation for May's oversized Fantastic Four #44, featuring the final battle in the Reckoning War, notes: "This is the final battle[...]

In the first Fantastic Four The Reckoning War Alpha One Shot we got a flashback to the origin of The Watchers Which predated the origin of the Time Lords in Doctor Who, and was probably nicked by Bob Baker for Doctor Who: The Underworld in 1978. Fantastic Four: The Reckoning War Alpha A modern retelling of the[...]

Many readers know that atomic radiation in one form or another was responsible for the development of the powers of some of the most important heroes at the dawn of Marvel's Silver Age, but radiation could take away such powers as well.  Such was the case for one of Marvel's most memorable mid-1960s stories, which[...]

Just like he neglected his family all those years, in this preview of Fantastic Four #40, Reed Richards neglects saving the world…for science Yes, great Just what Reed Richards needed: more knowledge What a dick! Check out the preview below. Fantastic Four #40 by Dan Slott & Rachel Stott, cover by Carlos Pacheco THE RECKONING WAR! The opening[...]

Check out the solicit below. RECKONING WAR TRIAL OF WATCHER #1 JAN220927 (W) Dan Slott (A/CA) Javier Rodriguez • In all of the Multiverse, there is only one "What If" world that Uatu has avoided watching – one "What If" that he never wished to see. • And now it will be revealed – The story that could damn him[...]

The Sub-Mariner is one of the definitive anti-heroes of the Marvel Silver Age, and the story of the Golden Age character's return to comics in the 1960s is part of the foundation of the Marvel Universe.  But when he was revived by the Human Torch in Fantastic Four #4, he quickly discovered that Atlantis had[...]

We're still calling them the New Fantastic Four Even though they first came together in 1991 Whch wasn't ten years ago like it feels but thirty-one years ago Fantastic Four #347 by Walter Simonson, Arthur Adams, Art Thibert, Bill Oakley and Steve Buccellato, which saw the Fantastic Four indisposed and replaced for three issues by[...]

As was teased in Marvel's Timeless #1 before the New Year, in The Reckoning War Fantastic Four event, the moon gets blown up This is how it was teased… as just a cracking… Timeless #1 …and this is how it looks in Fantastic Four: Reckoning War: Alpha, out today. Fantastic Four: Reckoning War: Alpha And this is how Mister[...]

See Benjamin Grimm get murdered in this preview of The Thing #4, in stores Wednesday from Marvel. Good thing it's just a dream... isn't it?!