Fantastic Four (team)

This article is about the team. For the TV series, see Fantastic Four.

Fantastic Four
Location	Baxter Building
Objective	Protecting Earth from threats
Leader	Mister Fantastic
Members	Invisible Girl Human Torch The Thing
First appearance	FF: "Menace of the Mole Men" (1967)

The The Fantastic Four are the titular superhero team from the Fantastic Four animated television series. They were given powers after getting exposed to cosmic rays in a space mission. Their base of operations is the Baxter Building at Manhattan, New York.

Members

• Leader: Mister Fantastic
• Invisible Girl
• Human Torch
• The Thing

Appearances

TV series

• Fantastic Four
  • 1.01 "Menace of the Mole Men"
  • 1.02 "Diablo"
  • 1.03 "The Way It All Began"
  • 1.04 "Invasion of the Super Skrulls"
  • 1.05A "Klaws"
  • 1.05B "The Red Ghost"
  • 1.06 "Prisoners of Planet X"
  • 1.07 "It Started on Yancy Street"
  • 1.08 "Three Predictions of Dr. Doom"
  • 1.09 "Behold, a Distant Star"
  • 1.10 "Demon in the Deep"
  • 1.11 "Danger in the Depths"
  • 1.12 "Return of the Moleman"
  • 1.13 "Rama-Tut"
  • 1.14 "Galactus"
  • 1.15 "The Micro World of Dr. Doom"
  • 1.16 "Blastaar, the Living Bomb Burst"
  • 1.17 "The Mysterious Molecule Man"
  • 1.18 "The Terrible Tribunal"
  • 1.19 "The Deadly Director"

History

Past life

The team was initially formed when Reed Richards decided on making a test flight into space with an experimental rocket of his own design. Ben Grimm, Reed's old friend from their college years, was convinced to pilot the ship after joining him, his girlfriend Susan Storm and her younger brother Johnny. Once in space, their ship was flooded by a wave of cosmic radiation, forcing Ben to activate its automatic re-entry back to Earth.

Following the crash landing, the team emerged from the ship's ruins and suddenly discover that they have been mutated with new abilities. Reed gained the ability to stretch his body and limbs at will, Sue was able to become invisible, and Johnny was able to fly and engulf himself on fire. Ben gained superhuman strength and durability, but more tragically, he was transformed with a tough orange, rock-like exterior. All four decided to use their powers for the betterment of humanity and christened themselves the Fantastic Four, in addition to giving themselves their superhero aliases: Mister Fantastic (Reed), the Human Torch (Johnny), the Invisible Girl (Sue) and the Thing (Ben).

Behind the scenes

• The Fantastic Four are Marvel Comics characters created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. They first appeared in Fantastic Four #1, published in 1961.