Fantastic Five Fantastic Five Fantastic Five is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team exists in the MC2 Universe, an alternate future to the Marvel Universe. A continuation of the Fantastic Four, the team was originally composed of the Human Torch, his wife Ms. Fantastic/Lyja (a Skrull), the Thing, Big Brain (Reed Richards' remote-controlled robotic body), and Psi-Lord (Franklin Richards, Reed's son). The team first appeared in "What If" (volume 2) #105 (1998), an issue that focused on Spider-Girl, the daughter of Spider-Man. Spider-Girl became popular and was given her own series, along with
Fantastic (comics) Fantastic (comics) Fantastic was a weekly British comic book magazine published by Odhams Press under the Power Comics imprint. It first appeared on 18 February 1967, and with its 52nd issue on 10 February 1968 it merged with its sister title "Terrific". The 89th and final issue of "Fantastic" appeared on 7 September 1968, after which it was merged into "Smash!". "Fantastic" was different from the earlier Power Comics such as "Smash!" and "Pow!", which were essentially traditional "Beano"-style British comic papers supplemented by a small amount of material reprinted from Marvel Comics. In contrast, "Fantastic" (and later "Terrific" as