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You voted and we continue to reveal your choices for the top 60 Fantastic Four stories ever told! Here are your picks for #28-25!
Today, we look at your picks for #28-25 of the greatest Fantastic Four stories ever told!
As always, you voted, I counted the votes and now we count them down, four at a time. If I don’t add a date for the series, it means it is the original volume of whatever series I’m talking about.
28. Fantastic Four Annual #2 “The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom!”
It’s fascinating just HOW quickly Jack Kirby and Stan Lee realized that Doctor Doom was amazing, as he very quickly not only became the Fantastic Four’s most prominent villain, he was practically their go-to villain, appearing three times in the first issue and another two times before issue #20 and then was also the villain in #23. So Fantastic Four Annual #2 came out after that, and Kirby and Lee delivered an outstanding origin, showing a young boy who became a defiant rebel against the rulers of Latveria after his mother was killed, but his scientific prowess was so great that a top United States university recruited him, but things went poorly when Victor Von Doom tried to contract the spirit world…
How amazing is the bit where the dude just puts on a new mask while it is boiling hot?
27. Fantastic Four #1 “The Fantastic Four!”
When Marvel decided to get into doing superhero comic books again, they had been doing short stories in anthologies for so long and had gotten so good at it, that when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby got together to do a full-length story for Fantastic Four #1, the creators basically told three full stories in one issue. The first story introduce the fascinating new heroes known as the Fantastic Four, who were unlike typical heroes of the time as they felt more HUMAN.
Then, the second story showed their iconic origin…
And finally, the third story saw them defeat the Mole Man on Monster Island.
It’s a wonderful yarn and a great introduction for Marvel’s new brand of superheroes.
26. Fantastic Four #258 “Interlude”
As I noted earlier, the follow-up to Doom’s re-conquering of his home of Latveria opens up by showing how things have improved since Doom has taken over the country….
We see Doom in a day in his life as he comes up with his new plan to take down to the Fantastic Four (which we saw earlier in the countdown with a plan involving Tyros the Terrible). Meanwhile, this issue also saw Byrne settle some scores by having it be revealed that the Doctor Doom who had just recently (at the time) guest-starred in Uncanny X-Men (written by Byrne’s former co-writer on Uncanny X-Men, Chris Claremont) was a Doombot.
25. Fantastic Four 1234 #1-4
Grant Morrison, Jae Lee and Jose Villarrubia combined to tell this delightfully offbeat story that involved Doctor Doom inventing a great machine known as the Great Mover that is altering reality itself (enough that perhaps Namor could get with Sue, and so Namor is willing to play along). Sue, of course, counters that whatever machine Doom invented, Reed will surely think of something better…
I’ve only been sharing one image per story, but for this one, I couldn’t help but also share this second page, where Invisible Woman gets to tell off Doom in such a brilliant sequence by Morrison (Lee and Villarrubia are brilliant, as well, but that’s a given by this point, right? Those two dudes are just AMAZING).
This miniseries drew a bit of controversy when Morrison noted that Sue’s relationship with Namor was based on a sort of incestual subtext, with Namor being so similar to her brother, Johnny. Morrison was clearly just doing some SUPER subtextual stuff, but it’s still interesting that they actually said it.
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