Fantastic Four Adventures

"Fantastic Four Adventures" is part of Marvel UK's 'Collector's Edition' line. It is being published by Panini Comics but reprints Marvel Comics from the United States. It began in 2005 around the release of the Fantastic Four film and follows the format established by the Collector's Edition Range. "Fantastic Four Adventures" is sold once every 28 days through Newsagents, although a subscription offer is available. "Fantastic Four Adventures" retailed at £2.40 upon its release, but rising in printing costs have seen the price rise to £2.50.

Format

"Fantastic Four Adventures" has 76 pages of which there is a contents page on the inside cover and a letters page on the inside back cover, named the "Fantastic Forum". It features very few advertisements, normally 4 of the 76 pages, which is very few compared to the American comics it reprints. All the advertisements are for Marvel related merchandise. So far, only the first issue is the only one published to be extended to 100 pages. The cover is made out of a thick card unlike the US comics which is made of normal glossy paper. The printing work is of high quality. It currently reprints modern (about 2 years old) Fantastic Four Comics as 2 of its 3 22 page stories. The 3rd story is a 'classic' story, a story originally printed in the 1960's. Currently it is reprinting the original "Fantastic Four" stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby that established the characters from issue 1.

Content

It began by printing stories by Carlos Pacheco and the run by Mark Waid and the late Mike Wieringo, but is now printing J. Michael Straczynski's run on "Fantastic Four". It has also printed the Thing miniseries "Freakshow", "Reed Richards Before the Fantastic Four", as well as "".