The First Family of Marvel: The Fantastic Four Appreciation 2019

[Grim Fandango]

July's #12 is Ben and Alicia's honeymoon, plus the Immortal Hulk fight!

Wait is that Xavier or the Maker?

[Digifiend]

It's Professor X wearing a portable Cerebro.

[BAS]

Ah, so Bruce was brought back from the dead after SW and brought in to the new reality. Thanks. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Pretty much. The "Illusion of Change" -- been that way since Lee & Kirby left the Fantastic Four.

[Crimz]

The Doom arc has been a major slump so far, but all the issues after seem fun and a better direction.

[CaptCleghorn]

The Doom arc has been a major slump so far, but all the issues after seem fun and a better direction.

I'd go so far as to isolate the handling of Doom and Galactus as the only problematic parts of the arc. Other characters seem to be very nicely handled.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Fantastic Four #25 Apr 1964
"The Hulk Vs. the Thing"
Reed Richards has once again created a formula he believes will cure the Thing.
However, this time, Ben is uninterested in a cure, because his girlfriend Alicia Masters loves him the way he is.
When Reed presses the issue, the Thing destroys the beaker containing the cure, much to Reed's frustration.
When Alicia later arrives, she informs the group of the latest news about the Avengers' manhunt for the Hulk.

Meanwhile, in New Mexico, the Hulk forces some truck drivers to stow him in the back of their truck.
As he sleeps, the Hulk reverts to Bruce Banner. When the truck is stopped at a checkpoint, Banner flees into the desert.
Banner seeks shelter in a nearby cave, hoping that he can find Rick Jones and get help.
Unfortunately, the stress causes him to transform into the Hulk once again, and Hulk seeks shelter in his cave.
Elsewhere, the Avengers and their ally, Rick Jones, search the nearby wreckage for clues to the Hulk's whereabouts.
As their search turns up nothing, the Hulk learns that the Avengers have replaced him with Captain America
and decides to get revenge against them. The Hulk then bounds off to New York City to face them.

Back at the Baxter Building, Reed suddenly collapses while working on an experiment and Johnny is sent out in the Fantasticar to fetch a doctor.
Along the way, he spots the Hulk trashing the streets and flames on to face the gamma-spawned monster.
The Torch is no match for the Hulk and is quickly defeated and his flame smothered.
As the news of the Hulk reaches the Baxter Building, Reed tells Ben and Sue to deal with the Hulk instead of him,
leaving them to worry that his sudden illness is grim and their leader might die. When they arrive at the scene,
Johnny is still fighting a losing battle against the Hulk. Sue protects her brother with her invisible force field but soon passes out from the strain.

That's when the Thing steps in for a rematch against the Hulk. As the Thing and the Hulk battle it out through the city,
Reed tries to leave his bed to help the team but finds that his malady has made him too weak to do anything.
Ben and the Hulk's battle takes them onto the George Washington Bridge.
Exhausted, Ben tries to get a reprieve by trying to bind the Hulk in one of the bridge's tension cables.

Meanwhile, Sue returns to the Baxter Building with a doctor and the prognosis is grim:
Reed has been afflicted by an unknown virus, and all the doctor can recommend is bed rest.
Meanwhile, the Hulk defeats the Thing in battle and moves on, seeking his revenge against the Avengers.

Left behind, the Thing picks himself up and follows after the Hulk, intent on stopping him.

Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Roussos [as G. Bell]

[Crimz]

https://www.newsarama.com/44694-invi...new-title.html

[Abe]

This is great news! (And congrats, Crimz! )

And it's also a team - writer and artist - I'm excited about. Very cool...

[U.N. Owen]

I'm holding out on the small sliver of hope that we get a Power Pack reunion sometime soon, especially in the back issue of July's issue.

[Silvermoth]

It’s great to see Susan define herself outside of the FF

[CaptCleghorn]

I'm holding out on the small sliver of hope that we get a Power Pack reunion sometime soon, especially in the back issue of July's issue.

Are the kids in Power Pack old enough yet to stop laughing at the PP acronym?

[U.N. Owen]

Are the kids in Power Pack old enough yet to stop laughing at the PP acronym?

According to Julie, Katie is 13, so doing the math:

Alex = 19+5 = 24 (he's weird)
Julie = 19
Jack = 17
Katie = 13

So half and half.

[Crimz]

The Journey of Prodigal Begins This July in 'Fantastic Four: The Prodigal Sun'

The Fantastic Four are about to come face-to-face with someone new! This July, as part of an interconnected series of three stories featuring Marvel's First Family, prepare to meet Prodigal in FANTASTIC FOUR: THE PRODIGAL SUN #1! Writer Peter David teams up with artist Francesco Manna for a new journey to the Savage Land.





"In the story of FANTASTIC FOUR: THE PRODIGAL SUN, Prodigal crash lands in the Savage Land where a clan of barbarians begin treating him like a god. But it's up to the FF to stop those barbarians from taking over the world!

In addition to FANTASTIC FOUR: PRODIGAL SUN, the other interwoven stories will continue in the two additional upcoming series GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: PRODIGAL SUN and SILVER SURFER: PRODIGAL SUN."

[ARkadelphia]

The Journey of Prodigal Begins This July in 'Fantastic Four: The Prodigal Sun'

The Fantastic Four are about to come face-to-face with someone new! This July, as part of an interconnected series of three stories featuring Marvel's First Family, prepare to meet Prodigal in FANTASTIC FOUR: THE PRODIGAL SUN #1! Writer Peter David teams up with artist Francesco Manna for a new journey to the Savage Land.





"In the story of FANTASTIC FOUR: THE PRODIGAL SUN, Prodigal crash lands in the Savage Land where a clan of barbarians begin treating him like a god. But it's up to the FF to stop those barbarians from taking over the world!

Sounds like a fun little series. The titles in the series all skew “cosmic” to me so having it savage land based is interesting to me. Waid is the definition of inconsistent in my mind with some of his work being great and others being dull as a wet dishrag but since

In addition to FANTASTIC FOUR: PRODIGAL SUN, the other interwoven stories will continue in the two additional upcoming series GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: PRODIGAL SUN and SILVER SURFER: PRODIGAL SUN."

Sounds like an interesting little series. I’m in for this.

[Nyssane]

I wonder if the "Sun" has anything to do with the Sun People, a tribe of warriors (or maybe "barbarians" as in this solicit) that roam the Savage Land and were led by Zaladane and worshiped Garokk as a god.