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Today , Marvel Comics declare that they would be bring out a new Fantastic Four monthly series start in August – the first of the sort in three geezerhood . Here ’s a history of how Bleeding Cool break the story on why there was n’t one – and found all sorts of implication .
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Today , Marvel Comics announced that they would be publishing a new Fantastic Four monthly series beginning in August — the first of the sort in three years . Here ’s a history of how Bleeding Cool kick downstairs the story on why there was n’t one — and found all sort of implications .
In 2014 , Bleeding Cool cover that theFantastic Four and the X - gentleman’s gentleman were notably absentminded on the Marvel 75th Anniversary magazines . At the time , Marvel SVPTom Brevoortreplied to concerns that this was to do with Fox get Fantastic Four and ten - Men movie rights , saying " Ay - Yi - Yi , you bozo with your magic mind reading helmets . Sometimes a cover is just a cover charge , you know ? "
mention that he did n’t traverse it , but essay to distract . Fox had bought film and lively - action at law TV rights to the Fantastic Four , Daredevil , and X - man as part of Marvel ’s egression from bankruptcy , and they were capable to renew them in perpetuity if they kept using them .
On the back of that , wewere told that Marvel was going to delete its Fantastic Four comics — it was at the time issue two of them . We were told : " The character reference will still appear , but in other folks ' playscript such as Inhumans and Avengers . And that artwork featuring the Fantastic Four is even being taken down in the company billet . “And that " The belief inside the higher echelon of Marvel is that encourage these properties in comic only benefits Fox ’s motion picture at the expense of those from Marvel Studios . Which is why the Inhumans are being pushed as mutant replacements in the Marvel Universe . And Marvel have been crowd Avengers , Guardians Of The Galaxy and other comics over the X - military man . And while X - Men comics stay on solid sellers , they are no longer the focal point of internal promotional material unless , as with the upcoming AXIS effect , the Avengers get equal billing . "
The game was on , and more detail came flood in — specifically that this was a verbatim order by Marvel chairIke Perlmutterafter a particularly fruitless meeting with Fox executives over the future of Fantastic Four rights . They did n’t want to give any promotion , however lowly , to Fox over X - Men and the Fantastic Four . Cancelling the X - Men comics would be too much , but they were to be sideline and all licensing and promotion was to be cancelled . And for the Fantastic Four , the comic would be cancelled as well . Tom Brevoortsaid : " It is awing how many of you guys asked some version of this question this morning . And I can hear Rich counting the nickel from your Sir Frederick Handley Page tick . " Again , not denying it . And then we started to get the physical evidence that something was up . A sketch carte du jour creative person who run with Marvel characterstold us"I do a phone number of sketch circuit card projects for Upper Deck and Rittenhouse using Marvel characters . The most recent projects from both companies , one placard as Marvel 75th Anniversary , gave specific rule of thumb to NOT utilise any FF grapheme or supporting cast such as Dr Doom , Galactus , Surfer , Skrulls etc … " And we had the letter to run , withfurther particular to come .
We had the right idea as to the means this business was being play . He break a direct lie .
" We are publishingFantastic Four . Next calendar month , we will be publishingFantastic Four . A year from now , assuming that it ’s still betray well , we will be publishingFantastic Four . "
Technically , if you cancel a comic book , it is no longer selling well — not selling at all . But at that percentage point he knew that in a year ’s clip , the Fantastic Four would be cancelled .
And that ’s what go on . TheFantastic Fourcomics were cancelled , firstUltimate Fantastic Fourand thenFantastic Four , with a 12 - number mini - series result up toSecret Wars — which also sport these panels .
Ike Perlmutter ? Lots of serial publication went offline for that event . But the Fantastic Four did not come out with a title .
Boom .
And other creators startedhiding digs over what was happeningin the funnies . But then , slowly , things commence to switch . There were baby footfall back . The X - Men slowly started to get some licensing deal . Illyana got an activity figure . There were no licensing of publicity restriction on Deadpool , or the TV showsLegionandThe Gifted . Clothing and foreign publication licensing start to retort , and Panini UK told me that while they still could n’t use Fantastic Four , they could release decade - humans again . And for the Fanastic Four , Hasbro get the rightto make a limited con single Susan Storm design — which then sire less modified . Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur did a Fangtastic Three story . AndMarvel Two - in - One , redubbedMarvel 2 - in - One , star the affair and the Human Torch , with a ( false ) delegation to find Reed , Sue , Franklin , and Valeria . And now Human Torch and the Thing have new Fantastic Four suit . Andthese sketches fromAlex Rosssuggest similar .
We then point out a lot of Fantastic Four collection being lined up for the summer / fall , after Marvel not publishing any for days . We wonderedif the Fantastic Four comic would return as well . And today , itwas announced that it was . For August fromDan SlottandSara Pichelli .
So … was it deserving it , Ike ? Is this still a strange fashion for a company to do business , Tom ? One twenty-four hours , when someone find access to what was going down , when and how , we ’ll get the whole truth . But at least you have an inkling of what went on , even as Marvel publicly deny it . The New York Times , which also cover the news , contribute :
Though there was an in - tarradiddle reason the Fantastic Four were no longer together , there was a passel of speculation as to material - globe reasons for the serial publication ' end . The comics news and rumor land site Bleeding Coolendlessly chronicledthe impression that it was canceled over film right hand . The question : Why would wonder support and promote characters in its comics that would only benefit another film studio ? ( The rights to the Fantastic Four in film belong to Fox Studios . )
So , Tom , now it ’s in the New York Times … is now the time to come clean-living ?
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