The Fantastic Four is a team of comic book superheroes published in American comic books by Marvel Comics. A number of characters have joined the team but the composition of it mostly remains to be four.
Notation:
In November 1961, Fantastic Four was formed after exposure to cosmic rays during a scientific mission to outer space in Fantastic Four #1. [1]
Character codename(s) | Real name |
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Mister Fantastic [lower-alpha 1] | Reed Richards |
Invisible Girl / Invisible Woman [lower-alpha 1] | Susan "Sue" Storm-Richards |
Human Torch | Jonathan "Johnny" Lowell Spencer Storm |
Thing [lower-alpha 1] | Benjamin "Ben" Jacob Grimm |
Character codename(s) | Real name | Issue joined in |
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Crystal | Crystallia Amaquelin | Fantastic Four #81 (December 1968) [2] |
Medusa | Medusalith Amaquelin | Fantastic Four #132 (March 1973) [2] |
Luke Cage | Lukas Cage (born Carl Lucas) | Fantastic Four #168 (March 1976) [2] |
Nova | Frankie Raye | Fantastic Four #238 (January 1982) [2] |
She-Hulk | Jennifer "Jen" Susan Walters | Fantastic Four #265 (January 1984) [2] |
Ms. Marvel / She-Thing | Sharon Ventura | Fantastic Four #306 (September 1987) [2] |
Ant-Man [lower-alpha 1] | Scott Edward Harris Lang | Fantastic Four #384 (January 1994) [2] |
Namorita | Namorita "Nita" Prentiss | Fantastic Four, vol. 3 #43 (July 2001) [2] |
Storm | Ororo Munroe | Fantastic Four #543 (March 2007) [2] |
Black Panther | T'Challa | |
Powerhouse | Franklin Benjamin Richards | Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #3 (July 2008) [3] |
Brainstorm | Valeria Meghan Richards | |
Flux | Dennis Sykes | Heroic Age: One Month to Live #3 (September 2010) [2] |
Spider-Man | Peter Benjamin Parker | Amazing Spider-Man #657 (March 2011) or FF #1 (March 2011) [2] |
Ms. Thing | Darla Deering | Fantastic Four vol. 4 #2 (December 2012) [2] |
Moon Girl | Lunella Lafayette | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #29 (March 2018) [2] |
Devil Dinosaur | ||
Iceman | Robert "Bobby" Louis Drake | Fantastic Four vol. 6 #3 (November 2018) [2] |
New Fantastic Four was formed to fill Fantastic Four after they were believed to have perished. [4] [lower-alpha 2]
Character codename(s) | Real name | Issue joined in |
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Hulk | Robert Bruce Banner | Fantastic Four #347 (December 1990) |
Ghost Rider | Daniel "Danny" Ketch | |
Spider-Man | Peter Benjamin Parker | |
Wolverine | James "Logan" Howlett | |
Sleepwalker | Spider-Man #22 (May 1992) | |
Powerhouse | Franklin Benjamin Richards | Fantastic Four, vol. 6 #22 [6] |
Brainstorm | Valeria Meghan Richards |
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