New Era For Marvel’s First Family Begins In Fantastic Four #1

The Fantastic Four are about to embark on new adventures, but they’ll have to find each other first!

 This July, writer Ryan North and artist Humberto Ramos kick off an all-new era of Fantastic Four that begins with Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny scattered across time by their archenemy, Doctor Doom. The new volume serves as both the fascinating next chapter in North’s current work on Fantastic Four and a perfect jumping on point for readers who want to experience one of the most acclaimed super hero titles of today. The debut issue hits stands just weeks before the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps film on July 25, and today, fans can see all the covers that will be available at their local comic shop.

Series artist Humberto Ramos’ delivers the main cover while variant covers come from a lineup of superstar talent including Alex Ross, Alan Davis, Jerome Opeña, Cliff Chiang, and Jeehyung Lee. Fantastic Four #1 also features a special Foil Variant Cover by Mahmud Asrar, a Remastered Hidden Gem Variant Cover by industry legend John Buscema, a Wraparound Variant Cover by Claudio Castellini, and the first of a five-part connecting cover by Skottie Young. Plus, Leo Romero takes inspiration from the Silver Age with one of the month’s eye-catching Retrovision Covers and Lorenzo Pastrovicchio provides the title’s latest Disney What If? Fantastic Four Homage Variant Cover.

Fantastic Four will also feature more Marvel Rivals Variant Covers by NetEase Games that spotlight artwork from the hit video game, starting with a connecting cover for issues #1 and #2. A Marvel Studios Variant Cover that showcases concept art from the upcoming film will also be available and will be revealed at a later date.

The Fantastic Four return with a new issue #1, kicking off all-new adventures through time, space, science and the human condition! When the Fantastic Four take on Doom, things go well until they suddenly go catastrophically wrong – and they’re sent to four different eras in Earth’s history! Alone and isolated in wildly different time periods, Reed, Johnny, Ben and Sue all have to fight to survive and hope that their shared brilliance will guide them back together!

“I still want each issue to stand alone, and I want every issue to be a place for someone to jump on and get a fully satisfying story with every issue they pick up, but I am turning the dial a little bit more towards larger and crazier stories for that larger narrative. I’m not changing the special sauce – as Ben would say, ‘I’m just adding a couple cloves of garlic – not because it’s not delicious, I just wanna add a little bit of zip,’” North explained in a recent interview with IGN.

See the Fantastic Four variant covers following the jump. For more information, visit Marvel.com.

FANTASTIC FOUR #1

Written by RYAN NORTH; Art and Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS

Foil Variant Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR

Variant Cover by CLIFF CHIANG

Variant Cover by ALAN DAVIS

Variant Cover by ALEX ROSS

Variant Cover by JEEHYUNG LEE

Variant Cover by JEROME OPEÑA

Connecting Variant Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG

Remastered Variant Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA

Retrovision Variant Cover by LEO ROMERO

Wraparound Variant Cover by CLAUDIO CASTELLINI

Disney What If? Fantastic Four Homage Variant Cover by LORENZO PASTROVICCHIO

Marvel Rivals Connecting Variant Cover by NETEASE GAMES

On Sale 7/9

[Based on a press release.]


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2 thoughts on “New Era For Marvel’s First Family Begins In Fantastic Four #1

  1. I noted the RIVALS variant cover shows some of Ben’s skin-rocks sticking out jaggedly.

    Which reminded me of a dramatically different version of the Thing submitted to a ConceptArt.org challenge some years ago, showing him as a cluster of extremely jagged free-floating rocks and stone gathered in vaguely humanoid shape. Very different and very intriguing.

    (Alas, ConceptArt.org, which had been very active and a favorite site to visit, shut down without archiving the thousands of posts and images generated over the years. So can’t put a link to that particular image or give the artist credit.)

    I also note that the RIVALS variant shows Reed apparently hitting the steroids. No. “Ripped Reed” is not a thing. No, just no. Reed’s always been slim, bordering on skinny.

  2. Some awesome covers!

    @Bruce Arthurs: But it’s got the robot from the cartoon, so maybe we could call it a wash? 😉 Not that I was a fan of the robot, but I like the callback.

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