Originally a temporary replacement for the regular Fantastic Four book, the Foundation is a scientific organization working for the betterment of mankind.
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In addition, Marvel Two-in-One a team-up series featuring The Thing and other heroes ran regularly in The '70s and even when the the core title was cancelled between 2015-2018, this team-up title was revived by Chip Zdarsky as part of Marvel Legacy. The flagship title continues to be Fantastic Four but recently the series spun off another book FF, meaning Future Foundation. The Timely era comics and events which transpired during World War II - the adventures of Captain America the original Human Torch, and Namor the Sub-Mariner - were famously welded into continuity in Fantastic Four #3-4 where Johnny Storm runs into an amnesiac hobo and gives him a shave only to reveal him to be Namor, reviving his memory and restoring him as an anti-hero/anti-villain. Multiple handbooks and reference guides insist that at best only 14 years have passed since then in the entire verse, and fourteen years will be all that ever passes in the Marvel Universe if editorial can continue getting away with it.
The Marvel Universe officially marks the beginning of Comic-Book Time to be the event that gave the Fantastic Four their powers. They also created many tropes the FF were the first superheroes without a Secret Identity, the first super-team where the members fought each other as much as the villains, and the first place that Kirby Dots appeared, among others. In the wake of the success of the Four, titles like Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Avengers followed. The Fantastic Four as such both literally and figuratively founded the Marvel Universe as we know it. Their number one recurring enemy Doctor Doom has gone on to become the great Marvel-wide villain of the entire universe.
The first appearances of Black Panther and Wakanda, The Inhumans of Attilan, and the Silver Surfer were in the pages of the Four. Likewise, it was in the pages of the Four that the Marvel Universe and its greater world building was first fixed. Victor von Doom, the Puppetmaster, the Molecule Man, the Red Ghost, the Trapster, the Frightful Four, Annihilus, among many others. In the course of their many adventures, the Four have faced a great assortment of rogues - the Mole Man, the Skrulls and the Kree, Dr. The FF have investigated, explored and mapped out more dimensions and alternate universes than you can fathom. The adventures of the Fantastic Four have taken them across the world, across time, to the far depths of space, and the bowels of the earth. The Fantastic Four are at heart a team of scientists and explorers, and they build vehicles, devices and portals in their penthouse dwelling atop the Baxter Building.