Fantastic Four

My earliest memories of the Fantastic Four are of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon both with and without HERBIE. I distinctly remember watching at least a couple episodes of one of the those series. First, there was the story where Galactus comes to Earth and the Human Torch has to retrieve the Ultimate Nullifier before he consumes the planet. Second, there was the story where the team goes back in time after finding an ancient Egyptian wall that has images of what looks like the Thing. I know now that both of those stories were adapted from stories from the Lee & Kirby run on Fantastic Four.

Fantastic Four was not a comic book that I frequently bought when I was younger although I did occasionally buy an issue here or there. The few issues that I have in my collection that I bought when I was a teen are from John Byrne's run on the book.

There is something about the team that has always appealed to me. I now have probably close to 100 issues, mostly from the 1980s. The only times that I can recall buying Fantastic Four regularly was around 1990 during Walt Simonson's run on the book and then about dozen years later during the Waid & Wieringo run.

In 2023 I started to read In Search of Galactus (FF 204-214). I finished that collected edition in 2024 and then started to read the run by Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz (FF 219, 222-231). John Byrne wrote and drew FF 220 and 221. I finished up through FF 231 in 2025 and have plans to read the Byrne run (FF 232-292) but I also have plans to go back and read issues that were reprinted in Fantastic Four Epic Collections 10 & 11 (FF 168-203).

Recent Reads

2015
2016
2018
2023
2024
2025
2026

Other - Past Reads

Here are some other Fantastic Four stories or collected editions that I read prior to starting this blog
  • Fantastic Four 21 - 1st appearance of Nick Fury outside of World War 2
  • Marvel Masterworks - Fantastic Four Vol. 5
    • Fantastic Four 41-50, Annual 3
  • Marvel Masterworks - Fantastic Four Vol. 6
    • Fantastic Four 51-60, Annual 4
  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne Vol. 0
    • Fantastic Four 215-218, 220-221
    • Marvel Team-Up 61-62
    • Marvel Two-in-One 50
  • Fantastic Four 343 - 351: part of Walt Simonson's run the series

Other - Future Reads

Here are some other Fantastic Four collected editions that I have and intend to read
  • Fantastic Four Epic Collection Vol. 10: Counter Earth Must Die
    • Fantastic Four 168-191
    • Fantastic Four Annual 11
    • Marvel Two-in-One 20, Annual 1
  • Fantastic Four Epic Collection Vol. 11: Four No More
    • Fantastic Four 192-203
    • Fantastic Four Annual 12-13
  • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. 21
    • Fantastic Four 236-240
    • Fantastic Four Roast
  • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. 22
    • Fantastic Four 241-250
    • What If...? 36
    • Silver Surfer (1982) 1
    • Marvel Fanfare 2
  • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. 23
    • Fantastic Four 251-257
    • Fantastic Four Annual 17
    • Avengers 233
    • The Thing 2
  • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. 24
    • Fantastic Four 258-268
    • Alpha Flight 4
    • The Thing 10
    • Marvel Fanfare 15
  • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. 25
    • Fantastic Four 269-277
    • Fantastic Four Annual 18
    • The Thing 19, 23
    • Epic Illustrated 26-34 (Galactus story)
  • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. 26
    • Fantastic Four 278-285
    • Fantastic Four Annual 19
    • Avengers Annual 14
    • Marvel Graphic Novel 18: The Sensational She-Hulk
    • Secret Wars II 2
  • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. 27
    • Fantastic Four 286-296

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