Without the Fantastic Four, there wouldn’t be a Marvel Universe. Although Marvel Comics as an entity existed prior, the shared reality where beloved heroes like Spider-Man and the Avengers operate was properly introduced in the pages of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four #1 in 1961, and the eponymous team has been a flagship franchise for the company for over half a century.
Yet despite their importance, the F4’s mainline comic title was cancelled in 2015 for reasons all but confirmed to be because Fox, not Marvel, owns the team’s movie rights. Three long years later, the Disney-Fox merger is on the way and Marvel’s First Family has finally reunited in a new series headed up by writer Dan Slott. But after all that turmoil, was the Fantastic Four’s return worth the wait?
Source: IGN.com Fantastic Four's Return Was Definitely Worth the Wait