Marvel Disney Variant Covers Imagine Mickey Mouse & Friends as the Fantastic Four

January 27, 2025, 1:10pm

Marvel’s What If…? Mickey and Friends Became the Fantastic Four reimagined Disney’s Fab Four — Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck — as Marvel’s First Family. The one-shot, plotted by Steve Behling, scripted by Riccardo Secchi, and penciled by Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, endowed Mickey with the stretching powers of Mister Fantastic; Minnie the ability to turn invisible as the Invisible Woman; Goofy the power to flame on as the Human Torch; and transformed Donald Duck into the rocky Thing.

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After clobbering Mole Pete’s legion of subterranean monsters in a Disney-fied version of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s classic Fantastic Four #1, Mickey’s foursome will return across a dozen new Disney What If? variant covers paying homage to iconic covers of Fantastic Four. Starting with this week’s Fantastic Four #28 by Ryan North and Steven Cummings, Marvel will release one new cover each month in celebration of the Marvel Studios film The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

The first six covers, which you can see below, recreate the covers of 1961’s Fantastic Four #3, which marked the first appearance of the four’s uniforms, the Baxter Building, and the flying Fantasti-Car; the debut of the green-skinned Poppupian, the Impossible Man, in FF #11; and a homage to “This Man… This Monster!,” from Lee and Kirby’s seminal FF #51.

Additional covers include the Fantastic Four’s battle with Galactus in 1976’s FF #173 by Roy Thomas and John Buscema with a cover by Kirby and Joe Sinnott; 1985’s FF #282, featuring Daisy Duck as She-Hulk, who joined the team during John Byrne’s run; and a tribute to 2002’s Fantastic Four (Vol. 3) #60, the start of the influential Mark Waid-Mike Wieringo run on the title.