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Mr.
Fantastic/Reed Richards
........................................... Gerald Mohr
The
Invisible Girl/Sue Richards
.................................... Jo Ann Pflug
The
Thing/Ben Grimm
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Paul Frees
The Human
Torch/Johnny Storm ............................. Jack
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Based
on the popular Marvel comic book characters, The Fantastic
Four were a group of scientists who were accidentally
struck by cosmic rays during the launching of a test
rocket ship. When their experimental ship passed through
cosmic radiation too strong for its shields to withstand,
the four - scientist and rocket designer Reed Richards,
his wife Sue, ace pilot and lovable lunkhead Ben Grimm,
and Sue's hotshot younger brother Johnny Storm - were all
bombarded with cosmic rays. Crash landing on earth, the
four discovered that the radiation had left each of them
with a strange, new power.
Reed, soon to be called Mr. Fantastic, became a pliable
mass, with limbs that could stretch to seemingly endless
limits. Sue gained the power of invisibility, and was thus
named the Invisible Girl. Ben became The Thing, an
incredibly strong, orange granite behemoth who constantly
grumbled about his new lumpy appearance. Johnny gained the
ability to "Flame on," encasing his body in fire and
giving him the power of flight. The impetuous youth's new
powers earned him the nom de superhero The Human Torch.
Flying into action aboard the Richards-designed U-Car,
the Fantastic Four battled such evil luminaries as the
Mole Man, the alien Skrulls, and the despotic Doctor Doom.
The Fantastic Four ran for two original seasons and one
season of repeats before bowing out in 1970. Later in the
decade, The New Fantastic Four hit the airwaves, with The
Human Torch replaced by wisecracking robot H.E.R.B. The
new show lasted only one season, but the original foursome
returned with new episodes fifteen years later as part of
The Marvel Action Hour. |
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Klaws
Menace Of The
Mole Man
Diablo
The Red Ghost
Invasion Of The
Super-Skrull
Three
Predictions Of Dr. Doom
The Way It All
Began
Behold A
Distant Star
Prisoners Of
Planet X
The Mysterious
Molecule Man
Danger In The
Depths
Demon Of The
Deep
Return Of The
Mole Man
It Started On
Yancy Street
Galactus
The Micro World
Of Dr. Doom
Blastarr, The
Living Bomb-Burst
The Terrible
Tribunal
Rama-Tut
The Deadly
Director
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