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14 unusual facts about Fantastic Four


East Rockaway High School

The school's mascot, The Rockman, is visually based on The Thing of the Fantastic Four.

Fantastic Four: The End

The Super Skrull, posing as She-Hulk, penetrates Reed's defenses and in the midst of his attack transports himself and Reed into the Negative Zone where they encounter Annihilus.

Susan's brother Johnny Storm (the Human Torch) is a strike-force leader for the Avengers, while Ben Grimm (the Thing) lives with his wife Alicia Masters and their three children on Mars.

Written and pencilled by Alan Davis and inked by Mark Farmer, its premiere issue was cover-dated January 2007.

Grace / Ride the Storm

Although Ride The Storm only features on the SEA Special Edition of Grace, the song served as the official theme from the soundtrack to the 2007 sci-fi film, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Jessica Kardos

At Meteor Studios, she has been a human resources assistant for 300 and Journey 3-D, and effects production assistant for Fantastic Four (2005).

Jorge Lucas

Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine #1-2, 12 (2001–02)

Marvel Tales

Through issue #12, Marvel Tales reprinted some of the earliest issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, as well as some of the earliest stories of Thor, Ant-Man, and Fantastic Four member the Human Torch (from his solo feature in Strange Tales).

Paul Mounts

Paul Mounts is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry, on comics including Fantastic Four, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Ultimates.

Spider-Man Comics Weekly

Initially the back-up strips were an adaption of the first episode of the cartoon (co-starring Iceman and Firestar) and the continuing Fantastic Four strips.

In addition to Spider-Man, the title featured five backup strips, starring the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Thor, the Sub-Mariner, and Nova.

As well as Spider-Man and Captain Britain, Thor and the Avengers continued from Super Spider-Man and the Titans while the Fantastic Four joined from Captain Britain weekly, only to depart after a few months to headline their own comic, The Complete Fantastic Four.

The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga

The dozen levels in the game often do not seem to follow much of cohesive storyline, and this was a similar complaint made with the Fantastic Four video game released for the PlayStation that same year.

Tom Brevoort

From 2007, he held the title of Executive Editor with Marvel and was responsible for multiple series including New Avengers, Civil War, and Fantastic Four.


Avengers Mansion

The Fantastic Four took up temporary residence at Avengers Mansion after their headquarters (the original Baxter Building) was destroyed.

Baron Brimstone

During the Acts of Vengeance, Doctor Doom later uses his Aggression Enhancer to force Baron Brimstone, as well as Armadillo, Man-Ape, Orka, Stilt-Man, and Whirlwind, into attacking the Fantastic Four at their court hearing.

Central City Shopping Centre

It has appeared in the beginning of the movie Fantastic Four and also stood in for the LuthorCorp headquarters in season three of Smallville.

Darkoth

His first appearance was in Fantastic Four series 1 #142, (January 1974), and he was created by Gerry Conway and Rich Buckler.

Ethan Edwards

To learn more about Ethan's powers, Spider-Man takes him to the Baxter Building, where Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four performs tests on Ethan to uncover the origin of his powers.

George Olshevsky

While compiling the Marvel Indices, he "produced some 60 fully illustrated books, totaling more than a million and a quarter words," producing indices to all the major Marvel Superheroes (including Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Marvel Team-Up, etc.

Graphic Imaging Technology

For a time, GIT held the license to release collections of scanned Marvel comic books, which included some of their classic characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four.

Iona Morris

Her voice work also includes: Medusa in The Fantastic Four series, Claudia Grant in Robotech and Nia/Betty in the short lived Phantom 2040.

Janus the Nega-Man

He clashed with the Fantastic Four and developed a module capable of harnessing anti-matter energy, and attempted to cross into the Negative Zone to gain more power.

Jarella

Many years afterwards, during a Fantastic Four storyline featuring a delirious Hulk rampaging through Las Vegas, the latter howled Jarella's name, as one of the 3 greatest tragedies that he considered to have befallen him, along with the poisoning of his wife Betty Ross, and the death of his friend Jim Wilson due to AIDS.

Marvel Apes

While Fiona tells the simian version of the Fantastic Four about Earth-616, she discovers that in the Marvel Apes reality the cosmic storm that gave the Fantastic Four their powers also gave a human appearance to Susan Storm.

Marvel Boy

He returned in Fantastic Four #165 (Dec. 1975) under the name "The Crusader", and appeared in the 12-issue ensemble miniseries Marvel: The Lost Generation (March 2000 - Feb. 2001) and elsewhere, eventually joining the superhero group Agents of Atlas.

Marvel Encyclopedia

The first volume covers Marvel in general, while the second through sixth volumes go into further detail on the X-Men, The Hulk, Spider-Man, the Marvel Knights, The Avengers, and the Fantastic Four, respectively.

Miss Lasko-Gross

She grew up reading comics, with her favorite ones ranging from Fantastic Four to Love and Rockets.

Morrat

Warlord Morrat appeared in the 1967 Fantastic Four series episode "Behold a Distant Star" voiced by Tol Avery.

Nicole Muñoz

Muñoz has also played small roles in big-budget movies shot in Canada in including Fantastic Four, Pathfinder, Another Cinderella Story Center Stage: Turn It Up and the Dwayne Johnson starrer, Tooth Fairy.

Phineas Horton

When Frankie was a young girl, Horton learned of the existence of the Fantastic Four, a member of which team went by the name of the Human Torch.

Seth Fisher

Fisher provided the art for the Marvel mini-series Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (scripted by Zeb Wells) that also appeared in 2005.

Shatterstar

His strength is superhuman enough that he is capable of wielding a heavy barbell as easy as a bo-staff and slam the Thing of the Fantastic Four through a window of the Baxter Building.