Ultimate Fantastic Four a series epilogue in "Ultimate Fantastic Four: Requiem". "Ultimate Fantastic Four" was the fifth continuing series of the Ultimate Marvel series, after "Ultimate Spider-Man", "Ultimate X-Men" and "The Ultimates" and "Ultimate Marvel Team-Up". The first writers assigned by project leader Bill Jemas were Mark Millar ("The Ultimates", "Ultimate X-Men") and Brian Michael Bendis ("Ultimate Spider-Man", "Ultimate X-Men"), who had both previously written comics in the Ultimate Marvel universe. Grant Morrison was involved in conceptualizing "Ultimate Fantastic Four" and was at one point set to write the series. However, he departed from Marvel for an exclusivity contract with DC Comics before
Superhero comics World War II and the end of the Great Depression. In comics format, superpowered and costumed heroes like Popeye and The Phantom had appeared in newspaper comic strips for several years prior to Superman. The masked detective The Clock first appeared in the comic book Funny Pages #6 (Nov. 1936). In the Great Depression and World War II era the first Superhero Comics appeared, the most popular being Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman and Captain America. After World War II superhero comic books gradually declined in popularity, their sales hindered in part by the publication of "Seduction of the