The FF don’t hide behind secret identities – they revel in their celebrity status. They comment on and subvert genre conventions. These are both fun adventures, and witty ‘meta-fictions’. Lee and Kirby must have recognised these limitations, as they would later expand her powers. In modern terms that reflected not so much her personality as a socially constructed role, but she is brave and resourceful, going willingly as both hostage and stowaway into enemy territory. As Invisible Girl, Sue can escape unseen. Last and cruelly least, sole female, Sue Storm, inherits the most passive, least heroic power. Inventor Reed Richards becomes the infinitely malleable Mr Fantastic impetuous youth Johnny Storm becomes the Human Torch Ben Grimm, secretly vulnerable man inside a rugged exterior becomes the Thing. The FF have super-powers that reflect their personalities.
It’s a deluxe oversized hardback, but ironically the better printing and paper renders the colours a bit too bright. This volume reprints the first thirty issues spanning 1961 to 1964. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four, was the foundation of the what became the Marvel comics, movies and merchandise empire.
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