Before Marvel’s first family take their first steps into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four movie — and before Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. returns to the MCU, now as Doctor Doom, in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars — Marvel Comics is giving the Fab Four and their armored arch-nemesis the spotlight with old and new comics. Starting in 2024 and continuing into 2025, Marvel is set to publish Doom-centric events in addition to reprinting classic Fantastic Four comics featuring Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, Human Torch, the Thing, and Victor Von Doom.
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That includes some of the earliest issues of the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby run of The Fantastic Four that influenced the “retro-future” 1960s setting of the new movie from director Matt Shakman (WandaVision). Marvel will revisit the Four’s first adventure with a facsimile edition reprinting 1961’s The Fantastic Four #1, and a new printing of the Fantastic Four Vol. 1 Omnibus collects the first 30 issues of the World’s Greatest Comic Magazine, plus Fantastic Four Annual #1, featuring Namor the Sub-Mariner.
In addition to the Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 5, which collects issues from the Roy Thomas-Gerry Conway run with art by John Buscema and Ross Andru, plus issues of Giant-Size Fantastic Four, Marvel will collect more of the ’70s run in the Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 6. That volume will release with Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott’s iconic cover for Fantastic Four #173 (not coincidentally, it features the planet-devouring Galactus ahead of his MCU debut).
Also available in 2025 is the Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo: Imaginauts trade paperback, collecting the first seven issues of Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo’s essential and influential run on Marvel’s first family. A modern reimagining of the team for the new millennium is Ultimate Fantastic Four by writers Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man) and Mark Millar (The Ultimates) and artist Adam Kubert (Uncanny X-Men), a good jumping-on point for readers who want to read FF without decades of continuity. Ultimate Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 1 contains the series’ first 31 issues and nearly 900 pages, with the first appearances of such characters as Ultimate Doctor Doom (Victor Van Damme), Mole Man, Nihil (Annihilus), the Mad Thinker, Marvel Zombies, and Namor.
After new Sorcerer Supreme Doom gives Spider-Man a magical Doom-inspired spider-suit in November’s 8 Deaths of Spider-Man event by Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness in Amazing Spider-Man, the Marvel Universe will submit to Doctor Doom in the 2025 event One World Under Doom. Marvel will launch a series of Doom variant covers in October that will adorn upcoming issues of Fantastic Four, X-Men, Venom, and more titles, and Earth’s mightiest heroes will face their doom when Sorcerer Supreme Doom guest stars in Jed Mackay and Farid Karami’s Avengers #19 on Oct. 23rd.
The Doom paperback collects the complete 10-issue Doctor Doom series by Christopher Cantwell and Salvador Larocca, and Doctor Doom: Books of Doom collects the six-issue limited series penned by Ed Brubaker that explores Victor’s origins and his ascendancy to the throne as ruler of Latveria.
We’ve rounded up these books and more below:
THE FANTASTIC FOUR OMNIBUS VOL. 1 (New Printing)
The debut and early adventures of the Fantastic Four, which laid the foundations for the Marvel Universe as we know it today!
Theywere visionaries. Explorers. Imaginauts. They were Stan Lee and JackKirby. And like the Fantastic Four, they continually strove to overcomethe impossible and achieve the extraordinary. Now, the first three yearsof their landmark run are collected in one oversized volume — includingthe FF’s thrilling first battles with the Mole Man, the Skrulls, theSub-Mariner, the Puppet Master, the Molecule Man, the Hulk and theirarch-nemesis, the tyrannical Doctor Doom!. This keepsake edition alsoincludes all original letters pages and pinups, critical commentaries, ahistorical overview and other timeless extras!
COLLECTING: Fantastic Four (1961) 1-30, Fantastic Four Annual (1963) 1
FANTASTIC FOUR #1 FACSIMILE EDITION (New Printing)
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby changed super-hero storytelling foreverwhen they introduced Reed Richards, Ben Grimm and Susan and JohnnyStorm. Together, the adventurous quartet blast off on an experimentalrocket flight – only to be bombarded by life-altering cosmic rays! Reedbecomes the elastic Mister Fantastic! Ben transforms into the rockyThing! Sue turns into an Invisible Girl! And Johnny flames on as theHuman Torch! They’ll use their incredible powers to help humankind –starting by fending off the menace of the Mole Man! The book thatstarted it all is re-presented in full – including its original ads!It’s the next best thing to buying FANTASTIC FOUR #1 off the stands backin 1961! Reprinting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #1.
MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 4 – THE FRIGHTFUL FOUR
More early adventures of The Fantastic Four from the MarvelAge of Comics, collected in a smaller format that’s perfect for newreaders!
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are the greatest storytellers that comics have ever known. And in the fourth Mighty Marvel Masterworks starringthe Fantastic Four, they’ll continue to earn that reputation withadventures that plumb the backstories of hero and villain alike. Mosticonic amongst this collection of adventures is the FF Annual #2origin of and battle with Doctor Doom. Doom is at his most chilling—andthat’s just the beginning! The FF’s first adversary, the Mole Man,returns; the Invincible Man’s shocking identity is revealed; we divedown into Atlantis to battle Attuma and Prince Namor; Diablo debuts;Dragon Man stomps the quad on campus; and the FF’s opposites, theFrightful Four, begin their reign of terror.
COLLECTING: FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #30-36 & ANNUAL (1963) #2
THE FANTASTIC FOUR OMNIBUS VOL. 5
You didn’t think we were going to stop with Vol. 4, did you?Marvel presents a fifth oversized Omnibus of the series that started itall! Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, John Buscema and Rich Buckler continuethe FF’s adventures as the Frightful Four launch a surprise attack withtheir newest member – Thundra – that pushes Reed and Sue to the breakingpoint! And when Sue leaves the team, an Inhuman joins the FF. Who willit be?
Also featuring Agatha Harkness, world’s creepiest babysitter;Annihilus’ plan to harness the enormous powers of Franklin Richards; thereturn of the Silver Surfer; Namor’s invasion of New York; a royalwedding; and, of course, Doctor Doom! Plus: All four of the FF’sGiant-Size adventures, letters pages and more!
Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR(1961) #126-163, GIANT-SIZE SUPER-STARS #1, GIANT-SIZE FANTASTIC FOUR(1974) #2-4 and AVENGERS (1963) #127.
THE FANTASTIC FOUR OMNIBUS VOL. 6
The beloved omnibus series collecting the classic adventures of the Fantastic Four continues!
Fantastic Four launchedthe Marvel Age of Comics in the 1960s and in the 1970s the seriesremained a creative force under the guidance of Marvel’s top writers,the artistry of the brothers Buscema, Keith Pollard and break-out talentGeorge Pérez. This Omnibus edition presents FF adventures on a massivescale like Galactus vs. the High Evolutionary, while seating the dramain the closeness the team as a family. All families have their strugglesthough, and when the FF break up, it really could be the end. Theirgreatest enemy will bind the team back together and the return of theMole Man and the Inhumans channel the mythology that makes Fantastic Four the World’s Greatest Comic Magazine.
COLLECTING:THE FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #164-203 & ANNUAL (1963) #11-13, MARVELTWO-IN-ONE (1974) #20 & ANNUAL (1976) #1 and WHAT IF? (1977) #1, #6& #11.
FANTASTIC FOUR EPIC COLLECTION: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE…(New Printing)
An era of transformation for Marvel’s First Family beings as the team sees a myriad of shakeups!
TheThing is still adjusting to his new role as leader of the FF, whoselineup now includes the Human Torch, Crystal and Sharon “Ms. Marvel”Ventura! But as Crystal’s presence complicates Johnny’s marriage, thingsget extra rocky for Ben and Sharon — literally! When more cosmic rayschange the two in unexpected ways, how will they react to theirmonstrous new mutations? Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four get involved inDoctor Doom’s war with Kristoff Vernard — but on whose side? And a tripto the Mole Man’s realm leads to an adventure across time and space —and to encounters with Belasco, Master Pandemonium and…the Beyonder!Plus: Hulk and Thing throw down in two supersized slugfests!
COLLECTING:Fantastic Four (1961) 308-320, Fantastic Four Annual (1963) 21,Incredible Hulk (1968) 350, Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) 29
FANTASTIC FOUR BY WAID & WIERINGO: IMAGINAUTS
See the FF on the big screen in FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, in theaters July 25th, 2025!
Oneof the greatest creative pairings on FANTASTIC FOUR since Stan Lee andJack Kirby, Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo brought Marvel’s First Familyinto a golden era!
Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo take the reinsof FANTASTIC FOUR and deliver some of the most daring and humorousadventures Marvel’s First Family has ever seen! Giant bugs! Livingequations! Johnny Storm, CEO! Exploding unstable molecules! The secretbehind the Yancy Street Gang! And watch as the antics between the Thingand the Human Torch heat up like never before! Prepare to laugh andcheer at once!
COLLECTING: Fantastic Four (1998) 60-66; material from Avengers (1963) 400
FANTASTIC FOUR BY CHIP ZDARSKY: FATE OF THE FOUR
The Thing and the Human Torch star in the series that set the stage for the Fantastic Four’s glorious return to comics!
Withtheir family torn apart, the Thing and the Human Torch are theFantastic Two! The world mourns Reed and Sue Richards, missing andpresumed dead. Meanwhile, something is wrong with Johnny Storm, and onlyBen Grimm can help him! But what monumental secret has Doctor Doom beenhiding, and how will it completely change Ben and Johnny’s lives?Things go multiversal as the Thing and the Torch look for answers totheir family tragedy on other worlds — but they’ll end up powerless andlost, fighting to survive in a savage wasteland! The Thing allieshimself with an old enemy in new armor — and get ready for thetwo-in-one team-up that everybody’s been waiting for! But will Ben andJohnny discover the true fate of the Four?
COLLECTING: Marvel 2-in-One (2017) 1-12, Marvel 2-in-One Annual (2018) 1
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR OMNIBUS VOL. 1
The modern reimagining of Marvel in the Ultimate Universetook the early 2000s by storm, and the Fantastic Four were one of thebiggest stars of the initiative!
When high-school genius ReedRichards enrolls at a secret, government-sponsored school for theworld’s most gifted minds, he unwittingly embarks on the journey of alifetime! And the experience will be transformative for Reed and hisfriends: Ben Grimm and Susan and Johnny Storm! But before they can evenbegin to get accustomed to their incredible new abilities, formerclassmate Victor Van Damme — forever altered by the same experiment —returns to exact his revenge! Plus: The nascent FF explore the N-Zone,meet Namor and the Inhumans and discover another reality very like theirown. Is it the Marvel Universe we know and love, or home to a deadlythreat set to lay waste to the Multiverse?
COLLECTING: Ultimate Fantastic Four (2003) 1-32, Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual (2005) 1
DOCTOR DOOM: BOOKS OF DOOM
The full origins of Marvel’s most iconic and enduringvillain, Doctor Doom, are revealed – as told by Doctor Doom himself!Doom was recently revealed to be portrayed by Robert Downey Jr in theupcoming Avengers Doomsday film!
From the black steppes ofEastern Europe, to the college campuses of New York City, and finally tothe throne of Latveria — this is the life of Victor Von Doom! From hisearliest disasters to his scientific triumphs to the tragedy of thefractured man he would become, this is the story you know, and the oneyou don’t. PLUS: AN ALL-NEW INTRODUCTION BY ED BRUBAKER!
Collecting: BOOKS OF DOOM #1-6
DOCTOR DOOM BY CANTWELL & LARROCA
Marvel’s greatest villain, Doctor Doom, stars in his ownblockbuster series! Recently revealed to be portrayed by Robert DowneyJr in the upcoming Avengers Doomsday film!
Victor Von Doom isat a crossroads. Wrestling with visions of an entirely different life,the lord of Latveria offers mankind a stark warning about the folly of atrillion-dollar global effort to create the first artificial blackhole. But when a catastrophic act of terrorism kills thousands, theprime suspect is…Doom! Left with no homeland, no armies and no allies —indeed, nothing at all — will Doctor Doom’s reign come to an abruptend? Forced to seek out an old “frenemy” for help, Victor will gothrough hell — literally! And his old foe Mephisto is waiting for himthere! Doom will have to battle Taskmaster, M.O.D.O.K., the Blue Marveland more — but to clear his accursed name, he must embark on a deadlycovert mission with unlikely ally Kang the Conqueror!
COLLECTING: DoctorDoom (2019) 1-10, War of the Realms: War Scrolls (2019) 3 (B story),King In Black: Iron Man/Doctor Doom (2020) 1
Fantastic Four The Ultimate Guide
The full, skyrocketing story of the Fantastic Four—Marvel’s original superhero family!
Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, the Thing…Individually they all have incredible powers, but together they are theFantastic Four—legendary heroes whose legacy has shaped the MarvelMultiverse.
Before the Avengers ever thought of assembling, theFantastic Four were busy safeguarding Earth against a rogues’ gallery ofsuper villains, such as Doctor Doom, the Frightful Four, the Wizard,Mole Man, and many more.
In this latest addition to DK’scomprehensive, in-world superhero Ultimate Guides, you’ll findeverything you need to know about Marvel Comics’ first-ever hero team.Following a foreword by top Fantastic Four writer Ryan North, a timelineof the FF’s adventures, detailed character studies, key storylines, andin-depth explorations of iconic comics bring the team’s thrill-packedstory right up to date.
