Explore the History of the Fantastic Four with FANTASTIC FOUR: LIFE STORY Debuting in May
60 years ago, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the world to the Fantastic Four. The team of superheroes has become iconic and are credited with starting the classic Silver Age of Marvel Comics. Now, the heroes are getting another chance. Author Mark Russell and artist Sean Izaakse are teaming up with Marvel Comics to bring about Fantastic Four: Life Story. This series of comics aims to “tell the entire history of the Fantastic Four from beginning to end, set against the key events of the decades through which their stories were published.” That is very ambitious. Here’s what fans can expect from Fantastic Four: Life Story #1:
FANTASTIC FOUR: LIFE STORY #1 will take place in the “Swinging Sixties” when Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny took that fateful journey to space that changed the face of comic book storytelling forever. Against the backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race, a terrible accident occurs that gives them great powers and a terrible secret, entangling them in Earth’s history forever as they transform into the world’s premiere super hero team.
Talking about working on the comic, Russell said:
What I’ve always loved about the Fantastic Four is how it reduces the cosmic struggle of human survival to the scale of a family squabble while treating personal relationships as a matter of truly galactic importance. Weaving their story and their world into our story and what’s happened in our world over the last sixty years was an important reminder to me of how smart it is to approach life like that.
Izaakse said:
Working on a story about Marvel’s First Family is not only an honor in itself, but what makes it even more so, is being part of the team that gets to tell such a moving and heartfelt story about these iconic characters, their struggles and triumphs in a new way that draws on what has come before. If I do my job right, this story will be one that Fantastic Four fans will remember for a long, long time.
Fantastic Four: Life Story #1 is set to release in May with cover art by Daniel Acuña.
