Marvel is making history with a very meta Fantastic Four comic that exists simultaneously in both the real world and the MCU

The Fantastic Four: First Steps #1
(Image credit: Marvel Comics)

OK, are you ready for some big brain comic weirdness? Marvel Comics is releasing a very real Fantastic Four comic by returning FF writer 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Matt Fraction and artist Marꦉc Buckingham🔯 that also exists within the reality of the MCU, as announced via .

No, I don't mean the comic is set in MCU continuity, that's been done plenty of times. In this case, I'm speaking far more literally. The comic, which shares its title with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Fantastic Four: First Steps, is meaꩵnt to be the same comic that the Fantastic Four themselves publish through their Future Foundation in the world of the MCU - meaning real world fans will be reading the same Fantastic Four comic that the fictional people of the MCU are reading.

Here's the cover by artist Phil Noto, which recreatꦿes Jack Kirby's cover for 1961's ori▨ginal Fantastic Four #1:

The Fantastic Four: First Steps #1

(Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Judging by the trailers, which have featured FF toys and shirts, merchandising seems to be an important aspect of the FF's presence in their reality (which is a separate world of the Multiverse th๊an the main MCU reality). And the concept of there being comics about the heroes 🌳of the Marvel Universe published in their own reality is nothing new in terms of comics themselves.

In the world of Marvel Comics, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:there is a Marvel Comics which was founded to tell the stories of the heroes in a medium that can capture the lಌarger-than-life nature of their ad📖ventures in a way that simple print journalism can't.

This does raise the kind of funny question of whether Matt Fraction and Marc Buckingham, who drew inspiration from the film's production designer Kasra Farahani and even visited the se🍌t of the film, also exist in the MCU as comic creators. Indeed, the Fantastic Four's original creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee even wrote themselves into their own comics as the creators of the in༒-universe comics as well, so there's definitely precedent.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps the comic will be released July 2, just ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps the movie, which hits theaters July 25 to kick off 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 6.

In the meantime, get up to speed with our guide to all the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming superhero movies still to come from both Marvel and DC.

I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic bookඣ historia🔯n since 2011. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)

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