1 #51)īest Fantastic Four stories - Unthinkable (Image credit: Marvel Comics) And, in its heartfelt finale, it brought Scott Lang face to face with Doctor Doom, the man responsible for his daughter Cassie's death.īuy: Amazon This Man, This Monster! (Fantastic Four Vol. The entire volume lasted 16 issues (the last handful of which were scripted by Lee Allred, Mike's brother) and get to the core of the Fantastic Four's family dynamic by examining the family we choose as well as the one we're born into.įF also managed to keep the sci-fi weirdness dialed way up with a Voltron-style Doctor Doom/Annihilus/Kang mash-up villain named Kang the Annihilating Conqueror, a one-eyed future Johnny Storm, and of course the adorable oddity of the Foundation's many students. Thing (Johnny's pop-star girlfriend Darla Deering wearing a mechanical Thing suit) formed the new team, who were left in charge of the Future Foundation's group of advanced science students.
Fraction sent the FF into space (and through time) and brought a substitute team into the Baxter Building in the pages of FF alongside artist Mike Allred.Īnt-Man, Medusa, She-Hulk, and the newly introduced Ms. The story (and its replacement team) have been fan-favorites ever since, though the magic of Simonson and Adams's collective sense of both action and humor has rarely been repeated – especially in the pages of Fantastic Four.īest Fantastic Four stories - Fantastic Faux (Image credit: Marvel Comics)įollowing Jonathan Hickman's years-long Fantastic Four run, writer Matt Fraction took over both the core title and its sister title, FF. And of course, the whole thing culminates in the return of the original Fantastic Four (and a massive team-up between both teams) in issue #350. Simonson's Fantastic Four isn't as prominent in the writer/artist's catalog as his Thor run, but this gem with artist Arthur Adams takes the Fantastic Four to a somewhat meta-level by having the team be replaced by some of Marvel's hottest characters at the time – Hulk, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, and Spider-Man – all while drolly pointing out the marketing potential of the team-up in clever cover blurbs. It may seem strange to have a story on this list that doesn't even feature the characters we usually think of as the Fantastic Four, but Walt Simonson's energetic story of an unlikely replacement team is too much fun not to include on this list. Best Fantastic Four stories - New Fantastic Four (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
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