7 July 2005, by Webmaster
Fantastic Four’s long trip
Comedy thriller? Action flick? The Marvel Comics story has taken more forms than its superheroes.
In issue No. 1 of the Fantastic Four comic book, four astronauts are bombarded by mysterious cosmic rays. In a few short pages, they become superheroes, each a specialist of sorts: a human fireball, a super-elastic genius, an invisible woman and an indestructible rock creature prone to exclaiming, "It’s clobberin’ time!"
While that transformation was relatively (...)