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Fantastic Four: First Steps

Projected release: July 25, 2025

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Fantastic Four #3

Marvel ⋅ 1962

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Fantastic Four #3
 
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$815
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$3.3k
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$9.8k

Key Facts

1st team appearance of the Fantastic Four in costume

1st appearance of the Miracle Man

1st appearance of the Baxter Building, Fantastic-car and Fantastic-copter

Fantastic Four #579

Marvel ⋅ 2010

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Fantastic Four #579
 
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$1
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$3
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$12

Key Facts

1st team appearance of the Future Foundation, a group of young, free-thinking scientists assembled by Reed Richards: Alex Power, Valeria Richards, Franklin Richards, Artie Maddicks, Dragon Man and others

[April 2024 - a Future Foundation logo is used in a marketing easter egg by Marvel Studios promoting comics affiliated with the Fantastic Four film]

Fantastic Four: Life Story #1

Marvel ⋅ 2021

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Fantastic Four: Life Story #1
 
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$1
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$2
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$5

Key Facts

Six-issue limited series that explores the lives of the Fantastic Four as they age in real time throughout the decades beginning in the 1960s while Reed obsessively prepares for the arrival of Galactus

[April 2024 - one of five issues Marvel Studios released in a list of comic books to read prior to the premiere of the Fantastic Four film}

Fantastic Four #50

Marvel ⋅ 1966

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Fantastic Four #50
 
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$85
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$235
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$850

Key Facts

Iconic cover art by Jack Kirby

Classic battle of Silver Surfer vs Galactus

3rd appearance of Silver Surfer

2nd appearance of Galactus

1st appearance of Wyatt Wingfoot, an ally of the Fantastic Four

Introduction of the Ultimate Nullifier, a weapon created by the Watchers

Earth X #12

Marvel ⋅ 2000

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Earth X #12
 
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$4
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$12
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$40

Key Facts

1st appearance of Shalla-Bal as Silver Surfer

[April 2024 - Julia Garner cast as Shalla-Bal who will be a female version of the Silver Surfer in the Fantastic Four]

Silver Surfer #1

Marvel ⋅ 1968

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Silver Surfer #1
 
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$180
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$600
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$1.8k

Key Facts

First solo ongoing Silver Surfer series

Origin of the Silver Surfer

Origin of the Watchers

1st appearance of Shalla-Bal

Silver Surfer first says, "where soars the Silver Surfer...there must he soar alone!"

[April 2024 - Shalla-Bal portrayed by Julia Garner will be a version of the Silver Surfer in the Fantastic Four film]

Fantastic Four #209

Marvel ⋅ 1979

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Fantastic Four #209
 
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$1
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$2
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$10

Key Facts

1st appearance of H.E.R.B.I.E. the Robot

First John Byrne artwork on the Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four #19

Marvel ⋅ 1963

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Fantastic Four #19
 
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$90
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$365
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$1.4k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Pharaoh Rama-Tut, later revealed to be the time-traveler Kang the Conqueror

Stan Lee first uses the phrase "Nuff Said" in the Special Announcements section

Fantastic Four #2

Marvel ⋅ 1962

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Fantastic Four #2
 
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$750
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$3.7k
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$9.3k

Key Facts

1st team appearance of the Skrulls, the shape-shifting alien race

2nd team appearance of the Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four #49

Marvel ⋅ 1966

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Fantastic Four #49
 
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$320
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$925
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$3.2k

Key Facts

1st full appearance of Galactus

1st cover and 2nd appearance of the Silver Surfer

Fantastic Four #48

Marvel ⋅ 1966

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Fantastic Four #48
 
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$450
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$1.3k
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$4.5k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Silver Surfer

1st cameo appearance of Galactus

[October 2021 - an inside source tells us: currently, the Fantastic Four is heavily a multiverse movie and Silver Surfer is very much at its center]

Fantastic Four #1

Marvel ⋅ 1961

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Fantastic Four #1
 
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$12k
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$49.5k
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$240k

Key Facts

1st team appearance and origin of the Fantastic Four: Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, The Thing

1st appearance of Mole Man

1st appearance of Giganto, a Deviant Mutate from Monster Isle

1st appearance of Tricephalous

Landmark issue that launched the Marvel Age of comics

💰 In April 2022, a 9.2 sold for $1.5 million

💰 In September 2024, a 9.6 sold for $2,040,000

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