TheMCUisn’t on pause per se, but we’ll be getting a lot less of it this year than we usually do. Just Deadpool & Wolverine this summer and then Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, although that may well be pushed into 2025. Next year will be a bigger one forMarvelas it attempts to regenerate casual fans' interest, and one of the biggest ways it plans to do that is via the Fantastic Four. If you’re unfamiliar with the superhero group’s origins, Marvel is giving you the chance to get all caught up for free.
The Fantastic Four hasn’t appeared in the MCU yet, but the team has a rich history in the comic books from whichDisneyand Marvel will pull when writing the story for their cinematic multiverse debut. If you’d like to educate yourself on the team’s beginnings, you can do so byclaiming five Fantastic Four comics for free. Fantastic Four #1, #48 through #50, and Fantastic Four: Life Story which was released 60 years after the group’s introduction.
Issue #1, first released in 1961, was Marvel’s very first Fantastic Four comic detailing their origin story. Issues #48, #49, and #50 chronicle the quartet’s battle against Galactus, and then Life Story is a modern retelling of that tale (thanks,Polygon). Not only are all five comics pillars of the Fantastic Four’s Marvel existence, but the decision to make these five the ones fans should be familiar with ahead of the group’s MCU bow further suggests we’ll finally be getting Galactus too.
One of the biggest and baddest villains in Marvel history, it’s only a matter of time until we see Galactus in the MCU, and doing so in the Fantastic Four movie would make a lot of sense. Sending fans back to the 1960s for this comic book journey also bolsters the belief the Fantastic Four movie will take fans back to a time we’ve not seen much of in the MCU so far - the 1960s. A time before the Avengers had been assembled, and perhaps establishing Galactus as a threat that was chased off before he returns in the present-day MCU.
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