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Those additions alone would be enough to make the Fantastic Four an important bit of comics history.
North and his art team demonstrate that approach in the stories collected in the trade paperbackThe Impossible is Probable.
Let There Be… Life!
In Let There Be… Life!
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however, Franklins just struggling to be born.
A perfect blend of high sci-fi adventure and family dynamics, Let There Be… Life!
is everything you want from a Fantastic Four comic.
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inFantastic Four#284.
Fantastic Four #1 (1961)
It all started here!
Readers today might be surprised at how muchFantastic Four#1 isnt really a superhero story.
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And thats a good thing.
A story that dark begets more upsetting material, with Reed compromising his morals and the team falling apart.
That is, until Hereafter, the final storyline in Waid and Wieringos run.
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Even better, the story sees the team meeting their maker: God aka Jack Kirby.
Reeds crime, according to Majestrix Lilandra of the Shiar Empire?
Allowing Galactus to live.
Inside Out (Fantastic Four #60, 2002)
The Fantastic Four are corny.
Theres no getting around it, nor should we get around it.
Thus, much of the issue consists of Reed describing the characters and going through a typical day.
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But the book truly transcended to another level with the Galactus Trilogy, which ran acrossFantastic Four#48-50.
But that familiarity shouldnt diminish the storys central power.
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