Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (stylized as 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer) is a 2007 superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four. A sequel to the 2005 film "Fantastic Four", the film is directed by Tim Story. Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Jessica Alba as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm/The Thing return as "The Fantastic Four", while Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington reprise their roles from the first film as Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom
Marvel UK Panini Comics obtained the license to print Marvel material in 1995 and took over the UK office's remaining titles. Reprints of American Marvel material had been published in the UK during the 1960s by Odhams Press under their Power Comics imprint. Titles such as "Smash!" and "Fantastic" featured a mix of Marvel reprint material and original non-Marvel work. This lasted till 1969 when the last superhero strip was removed from "Smash!", leaving no Marvel titles being reprinted in the UK at all. In 1972, seeing a gap in the popular weekly comics market of the UK, Marvel Comics formed their