Ultimate Fantastic Four Epic Collection, Vol. 1: The Fantastic

Ultimate Fantastic Four Epic Collection

by Mark Millar

A youthful reimagining of Marvel's iconic quartet! When high-school genius Reed Richards enrolls at a secret, government-sponsored school for the world's most gifted minds, he unwittingly embarks on the journey of a lifetime! And the experience will be transformative for Reed and his Ben Grimm, Susan Storm and Johnny Storm! But before they can even begin to get accustomed to their incredible new abilities, former classmate Victor Van Damme - forever altered by the same experiment - returns to exact his revenge! The nascent FF explore the N-Zone! Young Reed wants to duplicate the accident that changed the four and thereby reverse the process. But will his noble attempts at redress cause more harm than good? And can the quartet survive their encounter with Ultimate Annihilus?! Collects Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-18.

Genres: Marvel, Comics, Graphic Novels

464 pages, Paperback

Published June 17, 2025

About the author

Mark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.

His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.

Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.

Reviews

[Desmond Killian · Rating 2 out of 5]

What if the Fantastic Four were Xennials? And what if their rogues' gallery were a bunch of dirty old hobos? The book that inspired Josh Trank's Fant4stic!

[Doug Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was pretty good, but it felt like the weakest of the ultimate series volumes so far. I liked the modern take on the characters, and it's interesting to see the origins of the maker here.