The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... The Fantastic Four

During an expedition in space, four astronauts - scientist Reed Richards, pilot Ben Grimm, student Sue Storm and her kid brother Johnny - were bombarded by cosmic rays. After returning to Earth, the team discovered they had gained superpowers: Reed could stretch his body to incredible lengths, Ben became a super-strong being made of rock, Sue was now able to turn invisible and create force fields, and Johnny could ignite his body into flame and fly.

Dubbing themselves Mr. Fantastic, The Thing, the Invisible Woman, and the Human Torch (respectively), the quartet now explore the cosmos and fight incredible villains together as the Fantastic Four!

Updated July 16, 2025
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Marvels
Busiek, Kurt
Paper Book
Welcome to New York. Here, burning figures roam the streets, men in brightly coloured costumes scale the glass and concrete walls, and creatures from space threaten to devour our world. This is the Marvel Universe, where the ordinary and fantastic interact daily. This is the world of MARVELS....
Fantastic Four: Antithesis
Adams, Neal
Paper Book
Legendary artist Neal Adams illustrates his first ever full-length Fantastic Four story - and FF legend Mark Waid is back to join him! An unstoppable meteor of unknown origin has just erupted from hyperspace - and unless the Fantastic Four can keep it from hitting Manhattan, millions will die! But...
Future Foundation. Volume 3, All hope lies in doom
Hickman, Jonathan.
Paper Book
Fantastic Four. 3, Back in blue
Robinson, James Dale.
Paper Book
Jailed for murder, the Thing finds an unlikely ally while fighting a rogues' gallery of powerhouse villains in prison! Meanwhile, with the information he's learned, Johnny Storm's best friend Wyatt Wingfoot is in grave danger, hunted by a mysteriously familiar bowman! Who can help Wyatt in his hour...
Fantastic Four. 4, The end is Fourever
Robinson, James Dale
Paper Book
The internet-wrecking end of the Fantastic Four is here! The team meets the All-New Invaders as the hunt for Reed Richards and the missing Future Foundation kids continues! Meanwhile, the mastermind behind everything unveils his plan... but how does young Franklin Richards factor in? With the...
Secret Wars
Hickman, Jonathan
Paper Book
The interdimensional Incursions have eliminated each and every dimension one by one - and now, despite the best efforts of the scientists, sages and superhumans of both dimensions, the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe have collided with one another... and been destroyed! Now, all that exists in...
Daredevil. Vol. 1, Know fear
Zdarsky, Chip
Paper Book
Matt Murdock has clawed his way through physical therapy, but his near death experience that nearly left him crippled has left its mark on him. Reacquainted with pain and fear, the devil is back in hell's kitchen, but is the man who returned to the rooftops the same man who fell off them? Find out,...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 1, Fourever
Slott, Dan
Paper Book
The world's greatest comic magazine is back! Since the end of Secret Wars, there's been a gap in the Marvel Universe. A void no other team can fill. And it's time for the world to move on. But can it? A life-changing decision by the Thing! A momentous declaration by the Human Torch! A clarion call...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 2, Mr. and Mrs. Grimm
Simone, Gail
Paper Book
It's the wedding that's been years in the making - and you're all invited! Finally, Ben and Alicia say 'I do!' No bait. No switch. Not a dream. Not a hoax. And we swear, not a single Skrull around. This is really happening! From the book that brought you the first, best and longest running super...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 3, The herald of doom
Slott, Dan
Paper Book
Herald of Doom! Galactus has returned to devour the Earth... and only one man can save us: Doctor Doom! And where is that agitator, Reed Richards and his meddlesome family? What are they doing? They're locked in battle against the brave new hero of the Latverian people, Victorious! Collecting:...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 4, Thing vs. Immortal Hulk
Slott, Dan
Paper Book
Newlyweds Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters are off on their dream honeymoon at last! It's a remote tropical paradise... until someone decides to crash it. Or should we say... smash it?! One of the great rivalries in comics is renewed for the modern era - but Ben Grimm has never faced a Bruce Banner...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 5, Point of origin
Slott, Dan
Paper Book
One of Reed Richards' biggest regrets leads to a voyage to the one place in the universe the Fantastic Four have never been. Get ready for a bold new chapter into the heart (and the start) of the Marvel Universe... and it all begins here! Don't you dare miss this one! Collecting: Fantastic Four...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 6, Empyre
Slott, Dan
Paper Book
Empyre rocks the world of the Fantastic Four! First, the Mole Man and his biggest monsters return to the surface, with all their righteous wrath aimed at one man: Wyatt Wingfoot! Can the Human Torch and Sky possibly save him? Y'know, this really would've been a good time to have brought all of the...
Fantastic Four by Dan Slott Vol. 8 : The Bride of Doom
Silva, R. B.
Paper Book
Marvel's First Family are at each other's throats! As the Earth-ending threat of the King in Black rages on, half of the Fantastic Four have been Knullified - and are out to destroy their friends and family! And as if that weren't enough, an ancient force has reemerged in the Multiverse. Who - or...
Fantastic Four Vol. 9 : Eternal Flame
Leon, Nico
Paper Book
Celebrating 60 years of the Fantastic Four! The team has survived the events of 'The Bride of Doom' and 'Death in 4 Dimensions,' but the fallout of their actions still hangs heavily over Marvel's first family. Everything they've been through in recent months has led to one inescapable conclusion....
The unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Vol. 1, Squirrel power
North, Ryan
Paper Book
Wolverine, Deadpool, Doctor Doom, Thanos: There's one hero that's beaten them all-and now she's got her own ongoing series! (Not that she's bragging.) That's right, by popular demand, it's Squirrel Girl! (She's also starting college this semester.) It's the start of a brand-new set of adventures...
How to invent everything : a survival guide for the stranded time traveler
North, Ryan
Paper Book
An NPR Best Book of 2018 "How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If? The...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 1, Whatever happened to the Fantastic Four?
North, Ryan
Paper Book
Whatever happened to the Fantastic Four? Ryan North and Iban Coello usher in a bold new era for Marvel's First family... and, right from the start, they're in a ton of trouble. Something has gone terribly wrong in New York, and the Thing and Alicia are travelling across America to escape it! But...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 2, Four stories about hope
North, Ryan
Paper Book
Ryan North's acclaimed run on Marvel's First Family continues! Reunited once more, the Fantastic Four settle into their new headquarters - not knowing that a mysterious threat has made it there first! As their knowledge of LANGUAGE ITSELF begins to melt from their minds, the Four are in disarray as...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 3, The impossible is probable
North, Ryan
Paper Book
The Fantastic Four meet the Jurassic Four! When our FF swap places with a set of bizarre alternate-reality counterparts, they find themselves battling for survival...in a world where everyone is a dinosaur! Meanwhile, one year ago, Reed Richards sent the entire city block on which the Baxter...
Fantastic Four. 4, Fortune favors the fantastic
North, Ryan
Paper Book
Hit author Ryan North continues his ever-surprising FANTASTIC FOUR run! The Fantastic Four join the Blood Hunt and face down the vampires sinking their teeth into the Marvel Universe! But for all the FF's powers, can Mister Fantastic's scientific abilities do any good against the dark mysticism of...
Fantastic Four. Vol. 5, Aliens, ghosts and alternate earths
North, Ryan
Paper Book
Hit author Ryan North continues his ever-surprising FANTASTIC FOUR run! When a cosmic incident from outer space threatens forty percent of the planet, the Fantastic Four will need teamwork, cleverness and an old vehicle dug out of storage to save the world - plus some super-science! Then, Earth is...
Fantastic Four. 1234
Morrison, Grant
Ebook
Fantastic Four. Full circle
Ross, Alex
Paper Book
An all-new Marvel Comics graphic novel starring the Fantastic Four, written and illustrated by renowned artist Alex RossIt's a rainy night in Manhattan and not a creature is stirring except for . . . Ben Grimm. When an intruder suddenly appears inside the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four--Mister...
Invisible Woman. Partners in crime
Waid, Mark
Paper Book
Fresh from the pages of Fantastic Four, Susan Storm Richards stars in her own limited series - for the very first time! Secrets about her past are revealed that will shake readers' perceptions of the Invisible Woman forevermore! Years ago, Sue undertook an espionage mission for S.H.I.E.L.D. - and...
Devil's reign : Superior Four
Thompson, Zac
Ebook
Secret wars
Shooter, Jim.
Ebook
Illuminati
Bendis, Brian Michael
Ebook
Civil war : a Marvel Comics event
Millar, Mark.
Paper Book
Collects Civil War (2006) #1-7. Whose side are you on? A conflict is brewing that threatens to pit friend against friend, brother against brother and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse! As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams,...
Secret invasion
Bendis, Brian Michael.
Paper Book
Who do you trust? The shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls has secretly infiltrated every super-powered organization on Earth with one goal- full-scale invasion! Now, the invasion is here! The Marvel Universe is in shambles. The Skrull Empire's plan has birthed itself into perfection. It...
Devil's reign
Zdarsky, Chip
Ebook
The new Avengers. [Vol. 2]
Bendis, Brian Michael.
Paper Book
Of all the mysteries of the Marvel Universe, none are more shocking than the one that will be revealed here. Before S.H.I.E.L.D., before the birth of the super hero, what deep, dark secret has Nick Fury held for all these decades - and how has it come back to terrorize everyone? All will be revealed...
Guardians of the galaxy 1, Emperor Quill
Bendis, Brian Michael
Paper Book
Peter Quill has abandoned the Guardians and his role as Star-Lord to be Emperor of the Spartax. Rocket didn't wait a single minute to take the reins and become team leader of Drax, Venom, Groot, Kitty Pryde (A.K.A. Star-Lady?!?!) and new Guardian Ben Grimm, the ever-lovin' Thing! Collecting:...
The uncanny Avengers : lost future
Duggan, Gerry
Paper Book
New team, same mission. Steve Rogers has formed a new Avengers unity squad compromised of humans, mutants and...Inhumans? The Uncanny Avengers fight a world gone mad.
Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom : triumph & torment. Issue 57
Stern, Roger
Ebook
Avengers. Vol. 1Time runs out
Hickman, Jonathan
Paper Book
Time Runs Out! For Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Illuminati, it has all been building to this. Following the startling events of Original Sin and the revelations as to what the Illuminati have been up to all this time, this cataclysmic saga jumps forward to the day of the Final Incursion. See...
Avengers : time runs out. Vol. 2
Hickman, Jonathan.
Paper Book
The Avengers are fragmented! While one group seeks out the Illuminati for a confrontation, another takes the fight to the new Cabal! What has become of Tony Stark...to say nothing of Doctor Strange.! Collecting: Avengers 38-39, New Avengers 26-28
Avengers. Volume 3Time runs out
Hickman, Jonathan
Paper Book
After two years of carefully crafting his cataclysmic saga, writer Jonathan Hickman jumps ahead eight months to the grand finale, the honest-to-goodness immediate future of the Marvel Universe. and the day of the Final Incursion! After the revelation of the Illuminati's desperate, world-destroying...
Avengers. Volume four Time runs out
Hickman, Jonathan
Paper Book
For Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Illuminati, it all ends here! After two years of carefully crafting his cataclysmic saga, writer Jonathan Hickman jumps ahead eight months to the grand finale, the honest-to-goodness immediate future of the Marvel Universe... and the day of the Final Incursion!...
Infamous Iron Man. Vol. 2, The absolution of doom
Bendis, Brian Michael
Paper Book
Think you've seen Victor von Doom versus Reed Richards battle before? Well, you've never seen anything like this! The Reed Richards from a dead reality calls himself 'The Maker' -and his ultimate plans for this world are far more insane than anything Doctor Doom has ever attempted! Now Doom, as the...
The new Avengers A.I.M. Vol. 1, Everything is new
Ewing, Al
Paper Book
Venom. Vol. 2, The abyss
Cates, Donny
Paper Book
The blockbuster hit of summer 2018 continues! Eddie Brock's alien symbiote has been disobeying its human host but the reason why only leads to new questions about the creature and its other-worldly origins! Collecting: Venom (2018) 7-12
Venom. Vol. 3, Absolute Carnage
Cates, Donny
Paper Book
Absolute Carnage rocks the world of Venom! With the serial-killer symbiote Carnage on the loose, Venom must protect his son, Dylan... at all costs! But as longtime Venomaniacs know, they aren't the only two symbiotes around... and that only means that the bodies are piling higher than ever before!...
Absolute Carnage
Cates, Donny
Paper Book
After turning Venom's world upside down a year ago, Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman are about to put the Sinister Symbiote through hell again, only this time Carnage has come calling, and everyone who's ever worn a symbiote is dead in his sights! He's skirted the periphery of the Marvel Universe for...
Ultimate invasion
Hickman, Jonathan
Ebook
Meet the Skrulls
Thompson, Robbie
Ebook
Secret Invasion: Mission Earth
North, Ryan.
Paper Book
The Skrulls are back! When Maria Hill detects the merest hint of another alien infiltration, she acts quickly to put her defensive plans into action. But when Nick Fury is sent to investigate a Skrull sighting in Iowa, he finds the last thing he was expecting! Meanwhile, Tony Stark sees potential...
King in black. Namor
Busiek, Kurt
Ebook
All-new Inhumans. Vol. 1, Global outreach
Asmus, James
Paper Book
As the Terrigen Clouds continue to spread across the world, they leave in their wake the ruined lives of the Inhumanized. Now Crystal - Inhuman princess and former elemental Avenger leads her own team tasked to help as many of these NuHumans as possible. But Medusa's sister has her work cut out for...
Black Bolt. Vol. 1, Hard time
Ahmed, Saladin.
Ebook
Black Bolt. Vol. 2, Home free
Ahmed, Saladin
Paper Book
Black Bolt and his unlikely allies are finally free from their strange captivity, but their escape came at a high cost. Now, the Midnight King returns to Earth with a heavy heart and a new companion: the telepathic alien Blinky, a child with nowhere left to go! But the journey home is long and full...

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