Stretching Across The Marvel Universe - Mister Fantastic Appreciation

[The Whovian]

I wonder when Reed comes back whether he is still the smartest. They are saying Moon Girl is currently the smartest on Earth.

Valeria is the smartest and Reed is a very close second. I would say Doom is currently the smartest on Earth.

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when Reed returns, should he run for president? they could title the story "First Family."

To me this would have been a very good title for a one-shot in honor of the Fantastic Four's 55th anniversary this year.

[juan678]

mini return flashback

[The Whovian]

mini return flashback

I haven't been keeping up with the GotG book so can someone tell me if Ben has any idea on where Reed, Sue and the kids are? And what they are doing?

[Digifiend]

There's been no mention. Whenever either Ben or Johnny talks about it, they just say that they're "gone".

[Michael Watkins]

they probably aren't facetiming very often. you'd think that Reed would be able to send Ben a sign that they're alright, though.

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Art by Carlos Pacheco & Scott Hanna
http://comicvine.gamespot.com/carlos-pacheco/4040-3590/

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Hey yeah!
What could possibly be the reason that Reed is to this day unable to send Ben a sign that they're alright?

[The Whovian]

Hey yeah!
What could possibly be the reason that Reed is to this day unable to send Ben a sign that they're alright?

There is no reason. Just TPTB at Marvel.

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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/12/...k-application/

I can’t see any reason why they won’t get it. But maybe, just maybe, they should publish a comic book starring him, or the Fantastic Four, sooner than later?

IMO it is the decent thing to do.

[darewithpeace]

good for him to have a appreciation thread, i watch those images were he was one of the most importants characters on the marvel universe, what a good days

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Fantastic Four #197 by Keith Pollard

Fantasic Four # 200

It is the most appropriate battle that an anniversary issue could possibly have, as arguably the most clearly defined adversaries in the Marvel Universe--though Captain America and Red Skull could make a fine claim on that designation too--face off against each other.

It is a classic fight scene of the sort that Marvel made their name on, going on page after page yet never becoming tiresome.

Script: Marv Wolfman
Pencils: Keith Pollard http://comicvine.gamespot.com/keith-pollard/4040-4300/
Inks: Joe Sinnott
Letterer: John Costanza

[The Whovian]

Happy birthday Keith!

[Phoenixx9]

The Powers of Reed Richards, Mister Fantastic (Fantastic Four vol.1 #358)
Reed Richards was gifted superhuman powers by cosmic rays bombarding his body.
Hyper-Intelligence: Mister Fantastic’s natural mental abilities were greatly augmented by the Cosmic Rays that gave him his powers.
Plasticity: Mister Fantastic possesses the ability to convert the mass of his entire body into a highly malleable state at will. How his body’s respiration and circulatory systems function at these distorted extremes is as yet unknown. Mister Fantastic can alter his form in a matter of seconds, often much less (depending on the complexity of the shape), and revert to his normal humanoid shape within a similar time. The greater the distance he stretches or the more extended the size of the object he becomes, the weaker his overall strength becomes. Mister Fantastic’s transformation to a malleable state is reflexive and nearly instantaneous: if he was at his normal form and taken unaware by machine gun fire, his body would still absorb the bullets’ impact through radical deformation. Mister Fantastic’s skin is virtually impervious to laceration or punctures unless he willfully relaxes his reflexive control over small areas of his body. In that case, scalpels and ordinary needles can penetrate his skin.
Dense Flesh: Due to the great malleability and elasticity of his molecular structure, Mister Fantastic is able to absorb the impact of any type of man-made ballistic projectile by deforming his body along the path of the projectile’s trajectory at the point of initial impact.
Contain Explosions: Mister Fantastic may use his elastic form to contain explosions by enveloping them and allowing their force to expand him. He can enclose and absorb the energy of a large explosive, on the order of 8 to 12 pounds of TNT (excluding exotic, high density explosives). Such shocks to his system are physically exhausting.
Redirect Projectiles: After his body absorbs the kinetic energy of a ballistic projectile’s impact, Mister Fantastic can expel the object back along its trajectory by flexing his body like a trampoline if he is adequately braced.
Elongation: Mister Fantastic can extend his limbs, torso, or neck to great distances: the maximum length he can distend before his body segments become painful is about 1,500 feet. (Although he can extend discrete body parts, such as a single finger, an ear, or an eye, he seldom if ever isolates such parts in his elongations.)
Grappling: Mister Fantastic may restrain opponents very efficiently by using his elastic form to entangle them.
Movement: Mister Fantastic can move at great speeds by stretching to his destination.
Shape Changing: Mister Fantastic can stretch, deform, expand, or compress his entire body or parts thereof into any contiguous shape he can imagine for a variety of uses:
Imitation: Mister Fantastic may alter his basic physical features, allowing him to take on the appearance of any other man with similar hair and skin tone. One time, Mister Fantastic actually increased his size and mass density, in effect bulking his body to “Thing”-like proportions while increasing his strength to the same levels as well. The force of his strikes was enough to stagger even Onslaught.
Canopy, Parachute or Sheath: Mister Fantastic can extend his body in two directions, creating a canopy, parachute, or sheath, its thickness determined by the extent of its distention.
Gliding: Mister Fantastic can transform himself into aerodynamic shapes such as parachutes or hang-gliders. In this form he can support an additional 1000 pounds (enough to hold the rest of Fantastic Four, even the Thing).
Cushion: Mister Fantastic may form his elastic form into a trampoline and other cushion-like objects, allowing him to safely catch falling people and objects.
Sling Shot: Mister Fantastic may use his elastic form as a slingshot to hurl objects with great force.
Geometric Shapes: Mister Fantastic has compressed his body into the shape of a solid sphere, a cylinder, a cube, a toroid, and a rectangular prism: he can assume the shape of any solid that he can envision clearly, of a volume no greater than 1.7 cubic feet (a sphere about 18 inches in diameter). He can generate thin-walled shapes that enclose great volumes of space.
Fist Weapons: Mister Fantastic may form his fists into large hammers, maces, etc., which improve his physical effectiveness in hand-to-hand combat.
Bouncing Ball: Mister Fantastic can transform himself into any of a number of resilient shapes, such as balls or springs that allow him to leap or bounce great distances.
Two-Dimensionality: Mister Fantastic can flatten himself to the thickness of an average sheet of typing paper (.0035 inch) or narrow himself to a diameter small enough to pass through the eye of a #10 beading needle (about .045 x .06 inches).
Infiltration: Mister Fantastic can lower his body’s cohesion to such an extent that he can actually flow through minute openings.
Open Locks: Mister Fantastic may form his fingers into various types of keys, allowing him to open most forms of mechanical locks.
Wind Generation: Mister Fantastic may form his hands into fans, allowing him to generate wind by twirling them at great speeds.
Semi-Solid Liquid State: Mister Fantastic can willfully reduce his body into an almost liquid state in order to flow out of small cracks or passages, even through needle-sized holes.

By Tom DeFalco and Paul Ryan
https://cultfaction.com/2016/03/07/p...-away-aged-66/

Thanks for posting the great write up on Mr Fantastic!

I especially like the (rare) times when Reed stretched his legs to make him taller than the buildings around him, flattened himself to glide and made his fists large dense balls, sometimes with spikes.

[The Whovian]