The
Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books
published
by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov.
1961), which
helped to usher in a new naturalism in the medium. They were the first
superhero team created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and
co-plotter Jack
Kirby. The
Fantastic Four have been adapted into other media, including 4
animated television series, an aborted 1990s low-budget film, the major
motion
picture Fantastic Four (2005), and its sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of
the
Silver Surfer (2007). Although the group's membership has occasionally
changed
temporarily, it almost always consists of these 4 core friends and
family-members, who gained superpowers after being exposed to cosmic
rays
during an outer-space science mission: Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards),
The
Invisible Woman (Susan "Sue" Storm), The Human Torch (Johnny Storm),
and the monster-like Thing (Ben Grimm).
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