Multiple handbooks and reference guides insist that at best only 14 years have passed since then in the entire verse, and fourteen years will be all that ever passes in the Marvel Universe if editorial can continue getting away with it. The Marvel Universe officially marks the beginning of Comic-Book Time to be the event that gave the Fantastic Four their powers. They also created many tropes the FF were the first superheroes without a Secret Identity, the first super-team where the members fought each other as much as the villains, and the first place that Kirby Dots appeared, among others. In the wake of the success of the Four, titles like Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Avengers followed. The Fantastic Four as such both literally and figuratively founded the Marvel Universe as we know it. Their number one recurring enemy Doctor Doom has gone on to become the great Marvel-wide villain of the entire universe. The first appearances of Black Panther and Wakanda, The Inhumans of Attilan, and the Silver Surfer were in the pages of the Four. Likewise, it was in the pages of the Four that the Marvel Universe and its greater world building was first fixed. Victor von Doom, the Puppetmaster, the Molecule Man, the Red Ghost, the Trapster, the Frightful Four, Annihilus, among many others. In the course of their many adventures, the Four have faced a great assortment of rogues - the Mole Man, the Skrulls and the Kree, Dr. The FF have investigated, explored and mapped out more dimensions and alternate universes than you can fathom. The adventures of the Fantastic Four have taken them across the world, across time, to the far depths of space, and the bowels of the earth. The Fantastic Four are at heart a team of scientists and explorers, and they build vehicles, devices and portals in their penthouse dwelling atop the Baxter Building. The royalty payments from all his inventions fund the Four's adventures, despite the fact that they never get implemented in the world around them, and lets them live in high style in the time between. Reed is the World's Smartest Man, and his genius is often at least as useful as the powers he got from the accident. The four were connected even before the same Negative Space Wedgie gave them all their powers - Reed and Sue were sweethearts and eventually got married, Johnny is Sue's younger brother, Ben is Reed's best friend since college (as well as war buddy from World War II, until Comic-Book Time forced a Retcon) - and are as much a family (if occasionally a dysfunctional one) as a team. 1 #1 (November, 1961), created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The characters first appeared in " Fantastic Four" vol. The Thing (Benjamin "Ben" Jacob Grimm), who is superhumanly big and strong, and comes with a measure of invulnerability - but also remarkably monstrous, and unlike the others, can't switch it off.The Human Torch (Jonathan "Johnny" Lowell Spencer Storm), who can cover his body in flames and fly, as and when he chooses to "Flame on".The Invisible Woman (Susan "Sue" Richards ), who originally could only become invisible, she later developed special force field powers, as well as abilities to make invisible/visible her team-mates, objects or anything else she wishes.Reed Richards), Omnidisciplinary Scientist who can stretch and bend any part of his body at will. The Fantastic Four are a classic Marvel Universe superhero team, consisting of:
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