Fantastic Five

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Fantastic Five

Cover to Fantastic Five #1. Art by Paul Ryan.

Publisher	Marvel Comics' MC2 imprint
First appearance	What If (volume 2) #105
Created by	Tom DeFalco Ron Frenz
Base(s) of operations	Baxter Building

Roster
Human Torch Lyja Thing Big Brain Psilord

Fantastic Five is the name of superhero team that exist in the MC2 universe, an alternate future to the Marvel Universe. A continuation of the Fantastic Four, the team is composed of the Human Torch, his wife Ms.Fantastic/Lyja (a Skrull), the Thing, Big Brain (Reed Richards' mind in a robotic body), and Psilord (Franklin Richards, Reed's son).

The team first appeared in What If (volume 2) #105, an issue that focused on Spider-Girl, the daughter of Spider-Man. Spider-Girl became popular and was given her own series, along with the other characters in the MC2 universe (including the Fantastic Five). The Fantastic Five's series lasted only five issues, but they remained recurring characters in the Spider-Girl title, which lasted for 100 issues.

[edit] Other versions

In Exiles #44, the Weapon X team—led by Hyperion—began their conquest of the actual world they were on, by killing its superhero teams. At the beginning of the issue, they began killing the members of the Fantastic Five, which consisted of Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, the Thing, and Spider-Man as a fifth member.

In Excalibur vol. 1 #51, the Fantastic Five was the Earth-99476 counterpart of the Fantastic Four, consisting of dinosaur versions of the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man.

"The All New Fantastic Five?!?" also appears in Spider-Girl #87. Co-creator Tom DeFalco states that the new F5 were to appear in Fantastic Five #6 had the series continued.

Fatal Five- Due to Seth return to action, Spider-Girl and American Dream travel to an alternate universe that was last seen in A-Next #11 to recruit Thunderstrike. During their trip, they encounter an evil version of The Fantastic Five consisting of:
Reed Richards (He and that world's Baron Zemo first appeared in A-Next #10-11 as assisstants to Victor Von Doom)
Johnny Storm/Blow Torch
Ben Grimm/The Brute
Franklin Richards/Psi-Slayer
Peter Parker/The Spider[1][2]