{"id":228711,"date":"2025-07-01T07:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228711\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T07:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:31:17","slug":"youll-soon-be-able-to-buy-fantastic-four-comics-off-a-newsstand-just-the-way-our-ancestors-once-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228711\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll soon be able to buy Fantastic Four comics off a newsstand, just the way our ancestors once did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel has been going all out in channeling Silver Age of comics for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/fantastic-4-mcu-movie-cast-trailer-release-date-plot\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/fantastic-4-mcu-movie-cast-trailer-release-date-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>, which takes place in the mid &#8217;60s in its own timeline. Now, Marvel Comics is going so far as to turn back the clock on how it sells comics, announcing a new Fantastic Four &#8220;bookazine&#8221; that can be purchased off of newsstands, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/marvel-movies\/the-fantastic-four-changed-superhero-comics-forever-and-could-do-the-same-for-the-mcu\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/marvel-movies\/the-fantastic-four-changed-superhero-comics-forever-and-could-do-the-same-for-the-mcu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just like way back in the old days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What qualifies as a &#8220;newsstand?&#8221; Marvel says it&#8217;ll be at &#8220;retail outlets and wherever magazines are sold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, maybe you don&#8217;t have to be that old, but newsstand comics mostly stopped appearing in the early &#8217;00s, so it&#8217;s not inconceivable for adult comic fans to have never bought or even seen comics being sold alongside Us Weekly and Cosmopolitan.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>The new Fantastic Four &#8220;bookazine&#8221; contains reprints of three comic issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fantastic Four #60 (2002) \u201cInside Out\u201d written by Mark Waid and drawn by Mike Wieringo<\/li>\n<li>Fantastic Four #570 (2009) \u201cSolve Everything\u201d written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Dale Eaglesham<\/li>\n<li>Fantastic Four #1 (2022) \u201cThe Last Town to the Left\u201d written by Ryan North and drawn by Iban Coello<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also includes &#8220;an illustrated look at the origin of the Fantastic Four by renowned artist Alex Ross, behind-the-scenes sneak peeks at <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tag\/marvel\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tag\/marvel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel Studios<\/a>\u2019 The Fantastic Four: First Steps,&#8221; and &#8220;interviews with Marvel Studios Executive Producer Grant Curtis and Creative Director of Visual Development Ryan Meinerding,&#8221; according to the official press release.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a gallery of the official covers for the &#8220;bookazine,&#8221; by Phil Noto, and Arthur Adams and Christina Strain:<\/p>\n<p>Image 1 of 2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PUb6fU9ycZfJAKxF7s9dPg.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four Bookazine #1\"   class=\"image-wrapped__image image__image\" loading=\"lazy\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PUb6fU9ycZfJAKxF7s9dPg.jpg\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PUb6fU9ycZfJAKxF7s9dPg.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PUb6fU9ycZfJAKxF7s9dPg.jpg\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-slice-image=\"true\"\/>(Image credit: Marvel Comics)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2ijo6EeULrpWHb6VzBCdYg.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four Bookazine #1\"   class=\"image-wrapped__image image__image\" loading=\"lazy\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2ijo6EeULrpWHb6VzBCdYg.jpg\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2ijo6EeULrpWHb6VzBCdYg.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2ijo6EeULrpWHb6VzBCdYg.jpg\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-slice-image=\"true\"\/>(Image credit: Marvel Comics)<\/p>\n<p>The Fantastic Four &#8220;bookazine&#8221; is coming sooner than you might think, hitting newsstands on Friday July 4 (an atypical day, as comics usually release on Wednesdays). It will beat The Fantastic Four: First Steps by just a few weeks, as the Marvel blockbuster hits theaters on July 25. For more, check out our guides to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/upcoming-marvel-movies-shows\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/upcoming-marvel-movies-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upcoming Marvel movies and shows<\/a> and how to watch the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/how-to-watch-marvel-movies-in-order-mcu\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/how-to-watch-marvel-movies-in-order-mcu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel movies in order<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel has been going all out in channeling Silver Age of comics for The Fantastic Four: First Steps,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-228711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114776813602410376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}