Fantastic Four (comic book) leave. Comics historian Stephen Krensky said that "Lee's natural dialogue and flawed characters appealed to 1960s kids looking to 'get real'". As of 2005, 150 million comics featuring the Fantastic Four had been sold. The Fantastic Four stories have been collected into several trade paperback and hardcover editions. As part of the "Essential Marvel" range: As part of the "Marvel Masterworks" series: As part of the "Epic Collection" series: "The Fantastic Four" has been published in translation around the world, beginning in 1962 in Mexico as "Los Cuatro Fantásticos" published by La Prensa until the mid-1970s, then by Macc Division
Fantastic Four in film McMahon, the film was released on July 8, 2005. The story, both inspired by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's "Fantastic Four" comic-book storyline "The Galactus Trilogy" and Warren Ellis's comic-book "Ultimate Extinction", features the Silver Surfer, whose cosmic energy has been affecting the planet Earth and leaving craters around the planet. Set against an impending wedding between Reed and Susan, the U.S. Army recruits the Fantastic Four to help stop the Silver Surfer, and separately gain help from Doom. With "Fantastic Four" grossing $330.5 million worldwide, 20th Century Fox hired director Tim Story and screenwriter Mark Frost in December 2005